Cumulative voting probably works better than it sounds and would be easier than ranking candidates. But what it does it is shows that a number of people fanatical about a candidate.
I believe a much more interesting way to do things is to allow voters one vote for each candidate that they like, but no more than one. This system would show general like of the population instead of the work of activists. When people use more votes than someone else, in the grand scheme of things it actually diminishes the value of their vote.
Most people who are enlarging text don't give a shit if the webpage looks a little off with alignment. Why do web developers have such a problem understanding that? The page just has to degrade gracefully. It doesn't have to be perfect. That means set column heights with min-height instead of height.
I don't see why it has to be all or nothing. Reminds me of the article on slashdot earlier about names and validation of forms.
When you have different groups advertising conflicting "scientific" results for their own interests, it is no wonder the layman doesn't believe in science anymore. Burn the businessmen!
Eggs have less cholesterol than previously thought! We both know the world is and isn't global warming. We are/aren't on the verge of running out of oil. We have conclusive evidence that cell phones do and don't cause cancer. Pluto is no longer a planet! This is the face of science to many people.
That is the point of college. Everything up to high school mean nothing. This and engineers have special responsibilities on their shoulders and have undue responsibility for their actions. There is a reason you sometimes get an software engineer to program a piece of software instead of a standard programmer.
I mean Engineering is a professional job. Might as well have a doctor in and teach kids how to do a liver transplant. Then get sued for it when the kids attempt a real one and fail.:3 Stop groaning. You know it's true.
Both Shotwell and F-Spot have dependencies on various Gnome libraries. (Maybe just Gtk+?) But Vala is only a compile time dependency. Not a runtime one. You don't have to have a Vala dll installed.
It had to do with CD roms being 700MB, the disk image being already mostly full, and Eye of Gnome/F-Spot already duplicating most important functionality of gThumb/Gimp for typical users.
One day, a scorpion looked around at the mountain where he lived and decided that he wanted a change. So he set out on a journey through the forests and hills. He climbed over rocks and under vines and kept going until he reached a river.
The river was wide and swift, and the scorpion stopped to reconsider the situation. He couldn't see any way across. So he ran upriver and then checked downriver, all the while thinking that he might have to turn back.
Suddenly, he saw a frog sitting in the rushes by the bank of the stream on the other side of the river. He decided to ask the frog for help getting across the stream.
"Hellooo Mr. RMS!" called the scorpion across the water, "Would you be so kind as to give me a ride on your back across the river?"
"Well now, Mr. MS! How do I know that if I try to help you, you wont try to kill me?" asked the frog hesitantly.
"Because," the scorpion replied, "If I try to kill you, then I would die too, for you see I cannot swim!"
Now this seemed to make sense to the frog. But he asked. "What about when I get close to the bank? You could still try to kill me and get back to the shore!"
"This is true," agreed the scorpion, "But then I wouldn't be able to get to the other side of the river!"
"Alright then...how do I know you wont just wait till we get to the other side and THEN kill me?" said the frog.
"Ahh...," crooned the scorpion, "Because you see, once you've taken me to the other side of this river, I will be so grateful for your help, that it would hardly be fair to reward you with death, now would it?!"
So the frog agreed to take the scorpion across the river. He swam over to the bank and settled himself near the mud to pick up his passenger. The scorpion crawled onto the frog's back, his sharp claws prickling into the frog's soft hide, and the frog slid into the river. The muddy water swirled around them, but the frog stayed near the surface so the scorpion would not drown. He kicked strongly through the first half of the stream, his flippers paddling wildly against the current.
Halfway across the river, the frog suddenly felt a sharp sting in his back and, out of the corner of his eye, saw the scorpion remove his stinger from the frog's back. A deadening numbness began to creep into his limbs.
"You fool!" croaked the frog, "Now we shall both die! Why on earth did you do that?"
The scorpion shrugged, and did a little jig on the drownings frog's back.
"I could not help myself. It is my nature."
Then they both sank into the muddy waters of the swiftly flowing river.
Self destruction - "Its my Nature", said the Scorpion...
People don't *need* gas at for transport either. They could just live close enough to work to bike or walk.
No matter how easy Ubuntu (or whatever flavor of Linux we could talk about) is to install, people have already got an operating system on their PC and won't bother to install another one unless MS does something to truly piss them off. I say this as someone who pretty much immediately installs Ubuntu on any new machine I buy.
Most people wouldn't change their operating system even if MS pissed them off. Most people don't know they have the option and they don't have a clue how to do it. This is part of the basis for my previous assertion. You might like doing what you do. Some people love biking, too.
If you look at job descriptions, many are asking for ability to use specific programs instead of generic skills. Many web programming gigs still require testing for older version of Internet Explorer. AutoCAD does not run on linux. Many people don't realize that OpenOffice opens Word documents with high accuracy. Many companies ask that resumes are submitted in specifically doc format. Not PDF. Newer versions of Internet Explorer don't run in Wine. Games are still mostly on Windows. Sometimes there just plain aren't Linux drivers available for some hardware. People like what they know and dislike change.
These are some of the generic reasons floating in people's minds, even if many are misguided. You can spend your time shooting down a large number of the above down with the people you meet. I am sure someone will do that in a reply to this exact post, even though they are preaching to the choir. There are a lot of people out in the worcld who don't know that they don't need Windows, and they likely won't rethink computer and software purchases that quickly when the correct answer seems simple right now.
And so, that is why I made the general assertion that Windows sales are mostly inelastic. When the market share of Windows does drop below a certain point, my assertion will suddenly not hold any weight anymore.
I would like to hack a mechanical leg to do hydrolic robot walking sounds effects in time with heel and toe strikes. I know all the sensors are on there, but the interface is password protected and uses a non-standard plugin. Though there does appear to be a bluetooth interface.
Most things like this likely require a waver of sorts to get it made and installed. What if this battery explodes?
Unlike most software, it wouldn't surprise me if MS Windows sales mostly follows an inelastic demand curve. People buy it because they need it much like they need gas.
It sounds like through risk-benefit analysis you figured out Obj-C is the safest (but not foolproof) way to develop for the iPhone platform. From the tone, I would guess that you have no money invested in Obj-C developers, so the safest way out of this mess is to avoid it all together. At least, that is how I interpreted your post.
Adobe 10.1, with all its goodness, now gives me around 95% CPU usage as opposed to about 75% with the previous release.
I can play most video on the web as long as I am blocking flash adverts, the video is not HD, and there isn't too much translucent crap overlayed on the video. This 20% is likely a deal breaker for me. I will either switch to Gnash full time, or download all flvs instead of watching them at one frame every 5 seconds in the browser. The official flash plugin will officially no longer be "good enough" on my 5 month old computer.
I would hope this rule is found to apply against apple, is also applied against all console makers also. There is a reason why the iPhone is becoming a popular gaming platform with developers. Otherwise, the law (which is blind) is just being selectively applied.
Holy crap. You're saying that all my toupe of Mac OS X boxes are going to lock me in?;-;
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The stuffit comments were meant to lighten the atmosphere a bit. You look at my other Apple related posts though, I usually am defending them when blatantly wrong remarks are made. Bah.
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More or less yes. It was a joke. It was also a test to see how Slashdot group think works. People were saying things like this in the last Slashdot article about the Safari HTML 5 page and were getting modded +5 insightful saying things along the line of "Safari is proprietary"
The point of this post is, Slashdot group think has a different slant article by article. This changes what people can get away with saying.
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I don't want your "html 5" or to tinker on your webkit engine. Just put it in a nice.sit file so I can use it when I need to do browser testing. Thanks.
If that was the issue, then it should have been included in the summary. As is, this sounds like just another version of http://www.chromeexperiments.com/, and some people are commenting that the website works with chrome. Does Chrome experiments allows IE9 now that it has the canvas tag native?
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You can do what the guy in this video does with his GameCube. Yes, I have high standards.
Cumulative voting probably works better than it sounds and would be easier than ranking candidates. But what it does it is shows that a number of people fanatical about a candidate.
I believe a much more interesting way to do things is to allow voters one vote for each candidate that they like, but no more than one. This system would show general like of the population instead of the work of activists. When people use more votes than someone else, in the grand scheme of things it actually diminishes the value of their vote.
Most people who are enlarging text don't give a shit if the webpage looks a little off with alignment. Why do web developers have such a problem understanding that? The page just has to degrade gracefully. It doesn't have to be perfect. That means set column heights with min-height instead of height.
I don't see why it has to be all or nothing. Reminds me of the article on slashdot earlier about names and validation of forms.
I think the issue is that the children don't become stupid until they take the tests.
When you have different groups advertising conflicting "scientific" results for their own interests, it is no wonder the layman doesn't believe in science anymore. Burn the businessmen!
Eggs have less cholesterol than previously thought! We both know the world is and isn't global warming. We are/aren't on the verge of running out of oil. We have conclusive evidence that cell phones do and don't cause cancer. Pluto is no longer a planet! This is the face of science to many people.
But What I would find really interesting is what it would take to make Apple scrap the chip designs they bought and go back to Intel processors.
That is how the Japanese are committing seppuku nowadays? How things have changed....
That is the point of college. Everything up to high school mean nothing. This and engineers have special responsibilities on their shoulders and have undue responsibility for their actions. There is a reason you sometimes get an software engineer to program a piece of software instead of a standard programmer.
I mean Engineering is a professional job. Might as well have a doctor in and teach kids how to do a liver transplant. Then get sued for it when the kids attempt a real one and fail. :3 Stop groaning. You know it's true.
Both Shotwell and F-Spot have dependencies on various Gnome libraries. (Maybe just Gtk+?) But Vala is only a compile time dependency. Not a runtime one. You don't have to have a Vala dll installed.
It had to do with CD roms being 700MB, the disk image being already mostly full, and Eye of Gnome/F-Spot already duplicating most important functionality of gThumb/Gimp for typical users.
One day, a scorpion looked around at the mountain where he lived and decided that he wanted a change. So he set out on a journey through the forests and hills. He climbed over rocks and under vines and kept going until he reached a river.
The river was wide and swift, and the scorpion stopped to reconsider the situation. He couldn't see any way across. So he ran upriver and then checked downriver, all the while thinking that he might have to turn back.
Suddenly, he saw a frog sitting in the rushes by the bank of the stream on the other side of the river. He decided to ask the frog for help getting across the stream.
"Hellooo Mr. RMS!" called the scorpion across the water, "Would you be so kind as to give me a ride on your back across the river?"
"Well now, Mr. MS! How do I know that if I try to help you, you wont try to kill me?" asked the frog hesitantly.
"Because," the scorpion replied, "If I try to kill you, then I would die too, for you see I cannot swim!"
Now this seemed to make sense to the frog. But he asked. "What about when I get close to the bank? You could still try to kill me and get back to the shore!"
"This is true," agreed the scorpion, "But then I wouldn't be able to get to the other side of the river!"
"Alright then...how do I know you wont just wait till we get to the other side and THEN kill me?" said the frog.
"Ahh...," crooned the scorpion, "Because you see, once you've taken me to the other side of this river, I will be so grateful for your help, that it would hardly be fair to reward you with death, now would it?!"
So the frog agreed to take the scorpion across the river. He swam over to the bank and settled himself near the mud to pick up his passenger. The scorpion crawled onto the frog's back, his sharp claws prickling into the frog's soft hide, and the frog slid into the river. The muddy water swirled around them, but the frog stayed near the surface so the scorpion would not drown. He kicked strongly through the first half of the stream, his flippers paddling wildly against the current.
Halfway across the river, the frog suddenly felt a sharp sting in his back and, out of the corner of his eye, saw the scorpion remove his stinger from the frog's back. A deadening numbness began to creep into his limbs.
"You fool!" croaked the frog, "Now we shall both die! Why on earth did you do that?"
The scorpion shrugged, and did a little jig on the drownings frog's back.
"I could not help myself. It is my nature."
Then they both sank into the muddy waters of the swiftly flowing river.
Self destruction - "Its my Nature", said the Scorpion...
People don't *need* gas at for transport either. They could just live close enough to work to bike or walk.
No matter how easy Ubuntu (or whatever flavor of Linux we could talk about) is to install, people have already got an operating system on their PC and won't bother to install another one unless MS does something to truly piss them off. I say this as someone who pretty much immediately installs Ubuntu on any new machine I buy.
Most people wouldn't change their operating system even if MS pissed them off. Most people don't know they have the option and they don't have a clue how to do it. This is part of the basis for my previous assertion. You might like doing what you do. Some people love biking, too.
If you look at job descriptions, many are asking for ability to use specific programs instead of generic skills. Many web programming gigs still require testing for older version of Internet Explorer. AutoCAD does not run on linux. Many people don't realize that OpenOffice opens Word documents with high accuracy. Many companies ask that resumes are submitted in specifically doc format. Not PDF. Newer versions of Internet Explorer don't run in Wine. Games are still mostly on Windows. Sometimes there just plain aren't Linux drivers available for some hardware. People like what they know and dislike change.
These are some of the generic reasons floating in people's minds, even if many are misguided. You can spend your time shooting down a large number of the above down with the people you meet. I am sure someone will do that in a reply to this exact post, even though they are preaching to the choir. There are a lot of people out in the worcld who don't know that they don't need Windows, and they likely won't rethink computer and software purchases that quickly when the correct answer seems simple right now.
And so, that is why I made the general assertion that Windows sales are mostly inelastic. When the market share of Windows does drop below a certain point, my assertion will suddenly not hold any weight anymore.
I would like to hack a mechanical leg to do hydrolic robot walking sounds effects in time with heel and toe strikes. I know all the sensors are on there, but the interface is password protected and uses a non-standard plugin. Though there does appear to be a bluetooth interface.
Most things like this likely require a waver of sorts to get it made and installed. What if this battery explodes?
Unlike most software, it wouldn't surprise me if MS Windows sales mostly follows an inelastic demand curve. People buy it because they need it much like they need gas.
It sounds like through risk-benefit analysis you figured out Obj-C is the safest (but not foolproof) way to develop for the iPhone platform. From the tone, I would guess that you have no money invested in Obj-C developers, so the safest way out of this mess is to avoid it all together. At least, that is how I interpreted your post.
Adobe 10.1, with all its goodness, now gives me around 95% CPU usage as opposed to about 75% with the previous release.
I can play most video on the web as long as I am blocking flash adverts, the video is not HD, and there isn't too much translucent crap overlayed on the video. This 20% is likely a deal breaker for me. I will either switch to Gnash full time, or download all flvs instead of watching them at one frame every 5 seconds in the browser. The official flash plugin will officially no longer be "good enough" on my 5 month old computer.
No sense of humor today slashdot? It might have been trolling if I had actually linked a picture to scar people...but I didn't.
Pix or it didn't happen. (No subtle hint there.)
I would hope this rule is found to apply against apple, is also applied against all console makers also. There is a reason why the iPhone is becoming a popular gaming platform with developers. Otherwise, the law (which is blind) is just being selectively applied.
Holy crap. You're saying that all my toupe of Mac OS X boxes are going to lock me in? ;-;
The stuffit comments were meant to lighten the atmosphere a bit. You look at my other Apple related posts though, I usually am defending them when blatantly wrong remarks are made. Bah.
More or less yes. It was a joke. It was also a test to see how Slashdot group think works. People were saying things like this in the last Slashdot article about the Safari HTML 5 page and were getting modded +5 insightful saying things along the line of "Safari is proprietary"
The point of this post is, Slashdot group think has a different slant article by article. This changes what people can get away with saying.
I don't want your "html 5" or to tinker on your webkit engine. Just put it in a nice .sit file so I can use it when I need to do browser testing. Thanks.
If that was the issue, then it should have been included in the summary. As is, this sounds like just another version of http://www.chromeexperiments.com/, and some people are commenting that the website works with chrome. Does Chrome experiments allows IE9 now that it has the canvas tag native?