I'm as much of a lawn guarder as the next guy, but what? The ADHD spike really showed up in the 90's, well before this stuff existed or was commonplace. My stepmother's son has ADHD, born in the early 90's, and she's practically a luddite when it comes to technology.
If anything, I think it would have more to do with a double income household. The uptick aligns more with the lack of stay-at-home parents than with technology. I'm not surprised children don't get the attention they need when mommy and daddy are working 8-5 and burned out trying to keep up with the Joneses.
Incorrect. It indicates respect that the other person, a male, generally has to get off every so often for physiological reasons. Its not about jealousy, its about wanting to be part of your partner's sexual fulfillment. People in love don't go down on one another so that the other will reciprocate, its because we enjoy seeing the other person's exstacy.
I type faster on a membrane keyboard too, I think mainly because the keys are lower. I sit my wrist down on the wrist rest, and the height of mechanical keys tends to cause problems and miskeys for me. I have somewhat small hands, so maybe that's a factor. Arching my fingers a lot can cause me to miss the top row, and I don't rest my fingers on the home row like I should, I 'float' my hands above the keyboard and use muscle memory to do the key travels, with only my index fingers acting as guidepoints.
That said, I do find mechanical keyboards better for gaming. I bought one and was dissapointed with the typing aspect, but could actually tell the difference in the responsiveness over a membrane keyboard because the key registers prior to a full-press. Sound was a concern for me, so I bought one with rubber bumpers so its not unbearably loud.
Maybe you can answer something for me. Why did you focus on those sites? What was it that had you drawn towards them?
I actually find those advertisements for Christian Mingle very off-putting, and it bothers me a lot. I'm agnostic, and looking at commercials that say stuff like 'find god's match for you' makes me feel really upset. First, I find them invoking god for advertising very hypocritical for what they're trying to do. It reminds me of the movie Kingdom of Heaven where the corrupt crusaders incite a mob to do what they want by shouting 'God wills it!"
Second, it seems to condemn me as unfit, even though I stick to my morals and the golden rule far more than most Christians I know. It makes me feel like the site owners feel that being a Christian makes someone a good person, not that a good person is sometimes a Christian.
I find that isolating oneself to a specific group only creates and echo chamber and can heavily distort behaviors because there's no third party 'check' against them, so even an agnostic only dating site would be extremely off-putting to me. I want a good person (I'm currently with one) regardless of beleifs, not a person with beleifs regardless of behavior. In this sense, I find trends like this extremely disturbing. It only makes our country more divisive, and the further people drift apart, the less likely they are to reconcile and meet somewhere in the middle.
This is correct. The business I work for had to do the same thing. We had different divisions that had different core competencies that synergized well, but having them joined at the hip made it impossible to diversify. Customers looked at you with disdain because they thought you'd treat them like a second class citizen to your sister company. Truth was we wanted to diversify because all parts of the business were simply too reliant on the one big customer, and it made the companies worse. Separating our company learn to compete with others in their core competencies more effectively and be less effected by the downswing of one specific division. It also removed preferential treatment.
Power and manufacturing limits of today are usually self-imposed on future tech. In the cases of current sci-fi, there's usually a main 'battery' similar to old school battleships. Whose to say they couldn't have an array of 100 lasers of different sizes for different ranges, or have adaptable optics able to change the aperture size? Only the future will tell.
They become so invested in their delusions that their delusions are what make up a significant portion of their identity. When they think about themselves, they think about their stance on the conspiracy first and foremost. For them to recant is to recant a portion of their identity. This same behavior happens with severe addiciton and in some cases depression where they grow to embrace their dark/morbid personalities. Its also why its practically impossible to discuss religion with the religious.
The further you go down the rabbit hole, the harder the walls of the echo chamber become.
This is correct. There are laws in place that regulate this, plus as the parent said, a good percentage of ships are now fitted with shore power and the trend is growing.
My company does some business in Argentina, and that's the primary concern. I remember a meeting some years ago where the risk factor in Argentina was so high entirely because of politics. The best comparison would be like doing business in Venezuela. You never know if your assets are going to be randomly seized tomorrow and your company dissolved and turned into public assets.
While this is somewhat of a party pooper, he's been apple-focused for several years now, including a pretty significant and obvious bias towards their products. I'm glad he is finally leaving the reviewing arena because he lost his nonpartisan mindset and I felt his staying on was damaging the reputation of the site and indirectly the other reviewers at the site.
I really enjoyed reading his reviews over the past decade. From 2010 on, not so much, but fortunately the site is well staffed now with other reviewers.
I'm curious whether Skype changed to a more centralized service primarily because of the mobile world. Skype used to be a huge connection and battery hog on phones primarily because of the decentralized nature. Skype used to send messages through that were 'pending' to a contact even when your phone was in standby, because it was constantly trying to push the message to the user.
After microsoft acquired Skype, one of the first changes was this was removed, but it made it difficult to send messages sometimes because you had to pop your phone out of standby and switch to the app for it to send messages to people who were offline at the time you sent it. It made for some strange broken conversations. Now it just goes to pending and seems to go through right away, and the drag on phone performance is minimal.
Of course, microsoft has also made some really shitty and annoying changes. I can live with and understand the whole 3-way video chat becoming a premium feature to monetize the service if they're gonna use central servers, but I can't understand the awful UI choices doing their best to remove any possibility of signing out of skype on mobile devices.
This is partly influenced by the local climate. Finland is COLD, usually between 70-80 during the summer, and it gets unbearably cold during the winter. Colder environments favor centralized populations. Northern Finland is also a marshy mess of lakes that can't evaporate due to the climate, covered in mosquitos, similar to Canada which also has very desolate northern areas.
Trolls will even pop up in small communities of 20 or less given enough time. All it takes is someone convinced enough in their view, at odds with the majority in the community, and stubborn enough to stand their ground and ignore rational argument (common among people backed into a corner). Human nature creates trolls, ananymity only makes the problem more visible.
I understand the frustration, hell, my first course in egineering, they devoted a big chunk to unit conversions. I just get aggrivated when year after year, story after story, someone starts complaining about units and we get a huge back-patting session where everyone congratulates each for not being from the US. It takes less time to press ctrl+t and type '5ft 6in to cm' in the top bar for a translation than it does to type out a whiny soap-box post like the type we commonly get.
There are two facts that need to be taken into acount when it comes to unit conversions. First, a story that targets a local demographic is usually going to be in the units that demographic relates to. This was a UK story, but even still, imperial units are commonly used even if they are 'officially' converted, hence the yards. A different matter could be made for asking the Slashdot editors to add them to summaries, but that's another tree to bark up. Also, partially in relation to the first point, a unit conversion of the US will probably not be fully implemented in our lifetime. Canada and the UK converted decades ago and the non-standard measures are still fairly common in everyday language and food.
I just get aggrivated when a story's comment section gets overrun with this crap. I find it obnoxious and off-topic. I don't ask for a conversion for perspective when people's heights or temperatures are posted in metric, I convert myself and expect others to not be lazy.
Most large leagues, at least in the US sans MLB, have some sort of salary cap structure. This means one team can't spend beyond a certain amount on players in order to keep competition closer to parity, which makes the games/tournaments more exciting and hence drives revenue through more involved fanbases.
If you want rough estimates, its simple. If its in feet, divide by 3 for meters. If its in yards, yards = meters. No, its not perfect, but its close enough, within 2% margin of error.
Its not going to change any time soon, and no amount of bitching is going to make it change any time soon, so get over it. I find it funny that the bitching usually comes from Europe, where language is about 'cultural identity' but you have to speak english to be functional in larger businesses. Using the same logic, we should eliminate Dutch, Italian, Greek, Finnish, Swedish, and so on because they're a minority method of communication.
North Carolina has both ski resorts and beaches. The winter tourism markets are dwarfed in size, options, and revenue by the summer tourism options. There's only so many ski resorts, and only so many winter tourism options.
>So - you're saying the expansion is becoming obsolete before it's even been completed? Not to mention China would probably like to have shipping lanes to Europe that are outside direct US control. And Nicaragua would no doubt appreciate having a powerful economic ally interested in keeping it out of US diplomatic control.
Not obsolete for quite a while. The US East Coast is farily small volume in international shipping. When these new ships come out, they don't suddenly replace every ship on the market. They cost in excess of $100m each and take forever to build, a ship order of 8-10 can take 5 years and there's only a few companies capable of building them. Meanwhile, ships last up to 40 years. The biggest ships get used on the highest volume trade lanes (Asia-Europe, Transpacific), the previous bigger ships get pushed down a tier, and so on. It can take half a decade to a decade to build a shipping terminal, several years to deepen with dredging for a shipping terminal, and is incredibly expensive to upgrade equipment at current locations. The biggest problem with these big ships though is that they have to run near full capacity to actually be profitable to run, and you simply can't do that on the East Coast right now because of market segmentation and lack of volume.
The economic interest in central American canals is not about trading with Europe for China, they can do that through the Suez Canal which is closer, cheaper, and handles ULCVs. The market for the canals are the US East coast, the carribean, and northern Brazil. The ships currently on those trade lanes are not very big, but more importantly, less in demand than Asia-Europe trades, so it won't get priority on the new big ships. Any significant change in that dynamic would take decades, as would the infastructure to support it.
The panama canal is already undergoing expansion and will be able to handle all but a few of the largest ship sizes and should be completed in about a year or so. Most east coast ports aren't dredged deep enough to handle the megaships anyway,and by the time they are, its likely the northern passages around Canada are expected to be open due to global warming. The biggest ships are only deployed on asia-europe routes not because of accessibility but because of demand. It also isn't much further of a trip from Asia to NJ via the Suez Canal rather than the Panama canal.
Sorry, but this is not true. The main reason California has those warehouses is location, location, location. It is more expensive to do business in California than anywhere, but is required because Los Angeles and Long Beach are the two busiest port complexes in the US and the Panama Canal currrently can't support the ships that call the west coast. We get most of our imports from the Pacific in bulk shipments, then a lot of companies will warehouse them and create more localized loads for inland transport. This is why most large logistics centers are located near port cities or inland rail hubs like Chicago.
California, New Jersey, and New York have the worst state income and unemployment taxes in the country.
When looking at an icon/button with a flat edge vs. one with a beveled edge, the beveled edge gives the impression that the clickable area itself is smaller. This wasn't an issue with a cursor, but for touch you want the biggest possible touch areas for items without looking goofy. While its true that the area itself isn't really smaller, making it appear smaller makes people more hesitant with their presses which subconciously makes the UI feel 'slower.' I beleive this is why companies have migrated to the flat look.
There are plenty of good psychology experiments/case studies that produce a lot of really useful information and are repeatable (albeit over a very long period of time). The problem is there are also a lot of complete and utter ass psychology experiments. It is really really hard to produce a good study that provides useful results in soft sciences, and in cases of psychology, they take a very long time and sometimes a lot of money to complete. Yes, they have to account for a lot of variables and exclude them via statistical analysis, but the ones that do it right do it exceptionally well.
I used to think negatively on those types of studies until I actually took the time to read one while helping my girlfriend with a paper. I was amazed at the level of detail and the amount of effort they took to isolate the results into meaningful data.
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I'm as much of a lawn guarder as the next guy, but what? The ADHD spike really showed up in the 90's, well before this stuff existed or was commonplace. My stepmother's son has ADHD, born in the early 90's, and she's practically a luddite when it comes to technology.
If anything, I think it would have more to do with a double income household. The uptick aligns more with the lack of stay-at-home parents than with technology. I'm not surprised children don't get the attention they need when mommy and daddy are working 8-5 and burned out trying to keep up with the Joneses.
Incorrect. It indicates respect that the other person, a male, generally has to get off every so often for physiological reasons. Its not about jealousy, its about wanting to be part of your partner's sexual fulfillment. People in love don't go down on one another so that the other will reciprocate, its because we enjoy seeing the other person's exstacy.
I type faster on a membrane keyboard too, I think mainly because the keys are lower. I sit my wrist down on the wrist rest, and the height of mechanical keys tends to cause problems and miskeys for me. I have somewhat small hands, so maybe that's a factor. Arching my fingers a lot can cause me to miss the top row, and I don't rest my fingers on the home row like I should, I 'float' my hands above the keyboard and use muscle memory to do the key travels, with only my index fingers acting as guidepoints.
That said, I do find mechanical keyboards better for gaming. I bought one and was dissapointed with the typing aspect, but could actually tell the difference in the responsiveness over a membrane keyboard because the key registers prior to a full-press. Sound was a concern for me, so I bought one with rubber bumpers so its not unbearably loud.
Maybe you can answer something for me. Why did you focus on those sites? What was it that had you drawn towards them?
I actually find those advertisements for Christian Mingle very off-putting, and it bothers me a lot. I'm agnostic, and looking at commercials that say stuff like 'find god's match for you' makes me feel really upset. First, I find them invoking god for advertising very hypocritical for what they're trying to do. It reminds me of the movie Kingdom of Heaven where the corrupt crusaders incite a mob to do what they want by shouting 'God wills it!"
Second, it seems to condemn me as unfit, even though I stick to my morals and the golden rule far more than most Christians I know. It makes me feel like the site owners feel that being a Christian makes someone a good person, not that a good person is sometimes a Christian.
I find that isolating oneself to a specific group only creates and echo chamber and can heavily distort behaviors because there's no third party 'check' against them, so even an agnostic only dating site would be extremely off-putting to me. I want a good person (I'm currently with one) regardless of beleifs, not a person with beleifs regardless of behavior. In this sense, I find trends like this extremely disturbing. It only makes our country more divisive, and the further people drift apart, the less likely they are to reconcile and meet somewhere in the middle.
What do you think?
This is correct. The business I work for had to do the same thing. We had different divisions that had different core competencies that synergized well, but having them joined at the hip made it impossible to diversify. Customers looked at you with disdain because they thought you'd treat them like a second class citizen to your sister company. Truth was we wanted to diversify because all parts of the business were simply too reliant on the one big customer, and it made the companies worse. Separating our company learn to compete with others in their core competencies more effectively and be less effected by the downswing of one specific division. It also removed preferential treatment.
Power and manufacturing limits of today are usually self-imposed on future tech. In the cases of current sci-fi, there's usually a main 'battery' similar to old school battleships. Whose to say they couldn't have an array of 100 lasers of different sizes for different ranges, or have adaptable optics able to change the aperture size? Only the future will tell.
They become so invested in their delusions that their delusions are what make up a significant portion of their identity. When they think about themselves, they think about their stance on the conspiracy first and foremost. For them to recant is to recant a portion of their identity. This same behavior happens with severe addiciton and in some cases depression where they grow to embrace their dark/morbid personalities. Its also why its practically impossible to discuss religion with the religious.
The further you go down the rabbit hole, the harder the walls of the echo chamber become.
This is correct. There are laws in place that regulate this, plus as the parent said, a good percentage of ships are now fitted with shore power and the trend is growing.
My company does some business in Argentina, and that's the primary concern. I remember a meeting some years ago where the risk factor in Argentina was so high entirely because of politics. The best comparison would be like doing business in Venezuela. You never know if your assets are going to be randomly seized tomorrow and your company dissolved and turned into public assets.
Seems like a good switch.
While this is somewhat of a party pooper, he's been apple-focused for several years now, including a pretty significant and obvious bias towards their products. I'm glad he is finally leaving the reviewing arena because he lost his nonpartisan mindset and I felt his staying on was damaging the reputation of the site and indirectly the other reviewers at the site.
I really enjoyed reading his reviews over the past decade. From 2010 on, not so much, but fortunately the site is well staffed now with other reviewers.
I'm curious whether Skype changed to a more centralized service primarily because of the mobile world. Skype used to be a huge connection and battery hog on phones primarily because of the decentralized nature. Skype used to send messages through that were 'pending' to a contact even when your phone was in standby, because it was constantly trying to push the message to the user.
After microsoft acquired Skype, one of the first changes was this was removed, but it made it difficult to send messages sometimes because you had to pop your phone out of standby and switch to the app for it to send messages to people who were offline at the time you sent it. It made for some strange broken conversations. Now it just goes to pending and seems to go through right away, and the drag on phone performance is minimal.
Of course, microsoft has also made some really shitty and annoying changes. I can live with and understand the whole 3-way video chat becoming a premium feature to monetize the service if they're gonna use central servers, but I can't understand the awful UI choices doing their best to remove any possibility of signing out of skype on mobile devices.
Great show, just running out of stuff to do
This is partly influenced by the local climate. Finland is COLD, usually between 70-80 during the summer, and it gets unbearably cold during the winter. Colder environments favor centralized populations. Northern Finland is also a marshy mess of lakes that can't evaporate due to the climate, covered in mosquitos, similar to Canada which also has very desolate northern areas.
Trolls will even pop up in small communities of 20 or less given enough time. All it takes is someone convinced enough in their view, at odds with the majority in the community, and stubborn enough to stand their ground and ignore rational argument (common among people backed into a corner). Human nature creates trolls, ananymity only makes the problem more visible.
The city has an endemic culture of corruption, officials should be treated with skepticism in all affairs.
I understand the frustration, hell, my first course in egineering, they devoted a big chunk to unit conversions. I just get aggrivated when year after year, story after story, someone starts complaining about units and we get a huge back-patting session where everyone congratulates each for not being from the US. It takes less time to press ctrl+t and type '5ft 6in to cm' in the top bar for a translation than it does to type out a whiny soap-box post like the type we commonly get.
There are two facts that need to be taken into acount when it comes to unit conversions. First, a story that targets a local demographic is usually going to be in the units that demographic relates to. This was a UK story, but even still, imperial units are commonly used even if they are 'officially' converted, hence the yards. A different matter could be made for asking the Slashdot editors to add them to summaries, but that's another tree to bark up. Also, partially in relation to the first point, a unit conversion of the US will probably not be fully implemented in our lifetime. Canada and the UK converted decades ago and the non-standard measures are still fairly common in everyday language and food.
I just get aggrivated when a story's comment section gets overrun with this crap. I find it obnoxious and off-topic. I don't ask for a conversion for perspective when people's heights or temperatures are posted in metric, I convert myself and expect others to not be lazy.
Most large leagues, at least in the US sans MLB, have some sort of salary cap structure. This means one team can't spend beyond a certain amount on players in order to keep competition closer to parity, which makes the games/tournaments more exciting and hence drives revenue through more involved fanbases.
If you want rough estimates, its simple. If its in feet, divide by 3 for meters. If its in yards, yards = meters. No, its not perfect, but its close enough, within 2% margin of error.
Its not going to change any time soon, and no amount of bitching is going to make it change any time soon, so get over it. I find it funny that the bitching usually comes from Europe, where language is about 'cultural identity' but you have to speak english to be functional in larger businesses. Using the same logic, we should eliminate Dutch, Italian, Greek, Finnish, Swedish, and so on because they're a minority method of communication.
North Carolina has both ski resorts and beaches. The winter tourism markets are dwarfed in size, options, and revenue by the summer tourism options. There's only so many ski resorts, and only so many winter tourism options.
Dissapointed that they didn't ask the question about him raising the bar down there.
>So - you're saying the expansion is becoming obsolete before it's even been completed? Not to mention China would probably like to have shipping lanes to Europe that are outside direct US control. And Nicaragua would no doubt appreciate having a powerful economic ally interested in keeping it out of US diplomatic control.
Not obsolete for quite a while. The US East Coast is farily small volume in international shipping. When these new ships come out, they don't suddenly replace every ship on the market. They cost in excess of $100m each and take forever to build, a ship order of 8-10 can take 5 years and there's only a few companies capable of building them. Meanwhile, ships last up to 40 years. The biggest ships get used on the highest volume trade lanes (Asia-Europe, Transpacific), the previous bigger ships get pushed down a tier, and so on. It can take half a decade to a decade to build a shipping terminal, several years to deepen with dredging for a shipping terminal, and is incredibly expensive to upgrade equipment at current locations. The biggest problem with these big ships though is that they have to run near full capacity to actually be profitable to run, and you simply can't do that on the East Coast right now because of market segmentation and lack of volume.
The economic interest in central American canals is not about trading with Europe for China, they can do that through the Suez Canal which is closer, cheaper, and handles ULCVs. The market for the canals are the US East coast, the carribean, and northern Brazil. The ships currently on those trade lanes are not very big, but more importantly, less in demand than Asia-Europe trades, so it won't get priority on the new big ships. Any significant change in that dynamic would take decades, as would the infastructure to support it.
The panama canal is already undergoing expansion and will be able to handle all but a few of the largest ship sizes and should be completed in about a year or so. Most east coast ports aren't dredged deep enough to handle the megaships anyway,and by the time they are, its likely the northern passages around Canada are expected to be open due to global warming. The biggest ships are only deployed on asia-europe routes not because of accessibility but because of demand. It also isn't much further of a trip from Asia to NJ via the Suez Canal rather than the Panama canal.
Sorry, but this is not true. The main reason California has those warehouses is location, location, location. It is more expensive to do business in California than anywhere, but is required because Los Angeles and Long Beach are the two busiest port complexes in the US and the Panama Canal currrently can't support the ships that call the west coast. We get most of our imports from the Pacific in bulk shipments, then a lot of companies will warehouse them and create more localized loads for inland transport. This is why most large logistics centers are located near port cities or inland rail hubs like Chicago.
California, New Jersey, and New York have the worst state income and unemployment taxes in the country.
When looking at an icon/button with a flat edge vs. one with a beveled edge, the beveled edge gives the impression that the clickable area itself is smaller. This wasn't an issue with a cursor, but for touch you want the biggest possible touch areas for items without looking goofy. While its true that the area itself isn't really smaller, making it appear smaller makes people more hesitant with their presses which subconciously makes the UI feel 'slower.' I beleive this is why companies have migrated to the flat look.
There are plenty of good psychology experiments/case studies that produce a lot of really useful information and are repeatable (albeit over a very long period of time). The problem is there are also a lot of complete and utter ass psychology experiments. It is really really hard to produce a good study that provides useful results in soft sciences, and in cases of psychology, they take a very long time and sometimes a lot of money to complete. Yes, they have to account for a lot of variables and exclude them via statistical analysis, but the ones that do it right do it exceptionally well.
I used to think negatively on those types of studies until I actually took the time to read one while helping my girlfriend with a paper. I was amazed at the level of detail and the amount of effort they took to isolate the results into meaningful data.