First of all, am I the only one who hates Chrome's interface?
No.
But that's just window dressing,
Not really. It's what's kept me on FF. I just couldn't get Chrome to do what I wanted. It was a bit too streamlined. If FF4 keeps the search bar intact and keyboard accessible, I'll keep it and deal with the rest.
the real question is will it support H264/HTML5?
... or at least: how will it support H.264. It seems like it will have to eventually.
It works until marketing departments at big companies start gaming it in a big way.
No need to game the system when you've already gamed the users! How do you think all these twitterers know to talk about movies before they're released?
Contrary to Slashdotian opinion, the user interface is the thing of greatest substance in computing for most people, and that is why Apple has been a wild success since Steve Jobs came back, much to Slashdotters' chagrin.
I think you're right. I think there's evidence for a neurobiological basis behind it. Most of the human brain's computing power is tied up in tracking relationships with others and between others, in understanding others' intentions, etc., i.e. the human interface
Much as I'm disappointed that "computers" are no longer intended for people like me as they once were, Apple has a business to run, and they aren't required to cater to my tiny niche.
...they, just like a hard core sim, lack the artificial scripting madness that has invested so many of todays games, instead the games provide you with some core gameplay mechanics and everything that follows is basically a result of those.
You're on to something. At risk of seeming old, I was always fond of the abstract or nearly-abstract games of the early 1980s— Qix or Tempest. Even in games like the original Centipede or Pac-man which purported to represent something vaguely physical, a lot of the excitement and interest was epiphenomenal to the game mechanics and was unknown at the time of design. Game businesses probably don't pursue such things so heavily because of the difficulty in predicting the level of interest.
I'm working on a project that will require me to hire someone experienced in hard disk drive physical systems, encoding and controller firmware. I'm posting a question to Slashdot that resembles the kind of idiotic question that typically comes from a pointy-haired boss so I can offer the job to the person who posts the most rational, knowledgeable and nonconfrontational answer.
If you haven't seen this TED.com video with Dan Pink on the science of motivation, it's worth a watch:
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html
In case you don't want to watch TFV, it could be summarized as: "Using compensation to motivate tasks requiring higher cognition doesn't work. Behavioral science has understood this for decades, but business isn't listening."
Think back to when Apple Records filed a trademark infringement suit against Apple Computer. It sure seemed odd at the time. Years later Apple is in the music distribution business. Who'd a thunk it?
Right now, SPARC and SparkFun seem distinct enough, but when SPARC architecture is available in the microcontrollers on the development kits sold at SparkFun it's not so cut-and-dried.
If corporations are considered people, perhaps we can start locking them up/shutting them down when they are breaking the law... you know... just like everyone else.
That sounds good until they start demanding voting rights.
The other problem is, I'm not even terribly consistent with how my signature looks. I've just never had the fine muscle control to get a very consistent signature, so I'd have a terrible time proving in court that any signature which looks remotely similar to mine, *isn't* mine.
Maybe you should have spent more time in school practicing your cursive!:)
Add to that the fact that, nowadays, most signatures are 'collected' on electronic signature pads, which I always find awkward to use (usually they are angled up at a funny angle to write on, and often times the calibration on them is so bad that the actual pixels which 'light up' are 1/4 inch away from where they stylus is actually touching the screen)
There are also some signature pads with the keypad located right where you need to rest your wrist to sign. Holding your hand up in the air is not the best way to get good control of your signature.
Did you notice a patent number at the end of the video? I looked it up on USPTO, and the patent (from 1994) is for "Business card holder with sound generating microchip"!
..another way: To find employees who have just enough debt to make sure they'll take any kind of s**t from their boss to keep their job and stay afloat.
I followed the link in TFA to the screenshot at Endgadget that spurred the speculation.
I noticed they placed a "SM" (Service Mark) not a "TM" (Trade Mark) next to "The Shack", which implies they will be selling services, not goods under the new brand.
RS (a.k.a. "The S") hasn't really lost my business to Best Buy, but they have lost it to Mouser. I did buy a decent soldering station at RS, but when I needed a replacement tip, they didn't carry it! Mouser not only had it, but they had several different types.
That's not irony, that's exactly what the study says:
Cool! More proof that the word "ironic" is undergoing a semantic shift! Soon, more people will take "ironic" to mean merely "coincidental" than "coincidental and contradictory".
Slashdot Mirror
Back to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny#In_humans
I submit Hell's Gate to you... (this thing has been burning for 40 years)
Here are the coordinates: http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Derweze¶ms=40_15_8_N_58_26_23_E_scale:10000
First of all, am I the only one who hates Chrome's interface?
No.
But that's just window dressing,
Not really. It's what's kept me on FF. I just couldn't get Chrome to do what I wanted. It was a bit too streamlined. If FF4 keeps the search bar intact and keyboard accessible, I'll keep it and deal with the rest.
the real question is will it support H264/HTML5?
... or at least: how will it support H.264. It seems like it will have to eventually.
Not much of a stretch now to say that footnotes also constitute publishing.
It works until marketing departments at big companies start gaming it in a big way.
No need to game the system when you've already gamed the users! How do you think all these twitterers know to talk about movies before they're released?
Contrary to Slashdotian opinion, the user interface is the thing of greatest substance in computing for most people, and that is why Apple has been a wild success since Steve Jobs came back, much to Slashdotters' chagrin.
I think you're right. I think there's evidence for a neurobiological basis behind it. Most of the human brain's computing power is tied up in tracking relationships with others and between others, in understanding others' intentions, etc., i.e. the human interface
Much as I'm disappointed that "computers" are no longer intended for people like me as they once were, Apple has a business to run, and they aren't required to cater to my tiny niche.
...they, just like a hard core sim, lack the artificial scripting madness that has invested so many of todays games, instead the games provide you with some core gameplay mechanics and everything that follows is basically a result of those.
You're on to something. At risk of seeming old, I was always fond of the abstract or nearly-abstract games of the early 1980s— Qix or Tempest. Even in games like the original Centipede or Pac-man which purported to represent something vaguely physical, a lot of the excitement and interest was epiphenomenal to the game mechanics and was unknown at the time of design. Game businesses probably don't pursue such things so heavily because of the difficulty in predicting the level of interest.
I'm not on facebook, but I'm eerily impressed by the "people you may know" suggested by Linkedin.
he's in yr box both releesed and not releesed.
It's 30 micrometers long, according to this article on the Nature website.
...Paranoid States of America.
...rates of technical literacy or something...
What about the FCC's effectiveness in publicizing the test?
We. Need. To Stop. Spending.
Good article: Smart Debt and Stupid Debt.
I'm working on a project that will require me to hire someone experienced in hard disk drive physical systems, encoding and controller firmware. I'm posting a question to Slashdot that resembles the kind of idiotic question that typically comes from a pointy-haired boss so I can offer the job to the person who posts the most rational, knowledgeable and nonconfrontational answer.
If you haven't seen this TED.com video with Dan Pink on the science of motivation, it's worth a watch: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html In case you don't want to watch TFV, it could be summarized as: "Using compensation to motivate tasks requiring higher cognition doesn't work. Behavioral science has understood this for decades, but business isn't listening."
What about "goog"?
That's the best suggestion yet, since GOOG is Google's NASDAQ ticker symbol.
...Indymedia readers' Social Security Numbers, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, and so on.'
Are we sure this was a DOJ subpoena and not a phishing scheme? Who puts their SSN into a news website profile?
Think back to when Apple Records filed a trademark infringement suit against Apple Computer. It sure seemed odd at the time. Years later Apple is in the music distribution business. Who'd a thunk it? Right now, SPARC and SparkFun seem distinct enough, but when SPARC architecture is available in the microcontrollers on the development kits sold at SparkFun it's not so cut-and-dried.
If corporations are considered people, perhaps we can start locking them up/shutting them down when they are breaking the law... you know... just like everyone else.
That sounds good until they start demanding voting rights.
The other problem is, I'm not even terribly consistent with how my signature looks. I've just never had the fine muscle control to get a very consistent signature, so I'd have a terrible time proving in court that any signature which looks remotely similar to mine, *isn't* mine.
Maybe you should have spent more time in school practicing your cursive! :)
Add to that the fact that, nowadays, most signatures are 'collected' on electronic signature pads, which I always find awkward to use (usually they are angled up at a funny angle to write on, and often times the calibration on them is so bad that the actual pixels which 'light up' are 1/4 inch away from where they stylus is actually touching the screen)
There are also some signature pads with the keypad located right where you need to rest your wrist to sign. Holding your hand up in the air is not the best way to get good control of your signature.
Did you notice a patent number at the end of the video? I looked it up on USPTO, and the patent (from 1994) is for "Business card holder with sound generating microchip"!
..another way: To find employees who have just enough debt to make sure they'll take any kind of s**t from their boss to keep their job and stay afloat.
I noticed they placed a "SM" (Service Mark) not a "TM" (Trade Mark) next to "The Shack", which implies they will be selling services, not goods under the new brand.
Mod parent up! I thought of this story immediately.
mouser
RS (a.k.a. "The S") hasn't really lost my business to Best Buy, but they have lost it to Mouser. I did buy a decent soldering station at RS, but when I needed a replacement tip, they didn't carry it! Mouser not only had it, but they had several different types.
That's not irony, that's exactly what the study says:
Cool! More proof that the word "ironic" is undergoing a semantic shift! Soon, more people will take "ironic" to mean merely "coincidental" than "coincidental and contradictory".