I am quoting Mark Shuttleworth here, from the article:
The most controversial part of the proposal is the idea that notifications should not have actions associated with them. In other words, no buttons, sliders, links, or even a dismissal [x]. When a notification pops up, you won't be able to click on it, you won't be able to make it go away, you won't be able to follow it to another window, or to a web page. Are you loving this freedom? Hmmm? Madness, on the face of it, but there is method in this madness.
This goes with the "There should be no actions on notifications" bullet point from the article. This leaves the user with no recourse other than to kill the notification agent in case a notification becomes stuck. While this is only the display agent, there should always be an "exit" for the user.
We want to make notifications truly ephemeral. They are there, and then they are gone, and that's life. [snip] If you miss it, that's OK. Notifications are only for things which you can safely ignore or miss out on.
I left in the relevant text. At first glance, it may seem like the approach that they are going to take with all notifications, but the second point they make is:
We think there should be persistent panel indicators for things which you really need to know about, even if you missed the notification because you urgently wanted that coffee. So we are making a list of those things, and plan to implement them.
So this is a little better. If something is broken, there will be an indicator somewhere that will always let you know. For all other things, like someone logging in or your wifi connecting and disconnecting, it'll pop up and fade away. If you're there to see it, great. If you're not, then great. This isn't an entirely new concept. In Windows, if my wifi goes dead, I'll get a disconnection notice, which will fade away forever. In the system tray, I'll have a visual indicator in the form of a red X over the wireless icon.
One question I have - is this new notification agent something that will just sit in front of libnotify and take care of the aesthetic properties of the notification, or will the two work separately? I guess I just want to know the relationship between this agent and the libnotify daemon.
The inventor, Dr. James Tour, states that he did this "so that we can someday construct buildings and other large objects with molecular-size vehicles."
I'm curious to find out how long it would take for nanovehicles to construct large-sized objects. However, an even greater usage for this invention would be to repair and strengthen structurally unstable buildings, dams, levees, etc.
Hmm, I didn't even think of that. And you're right, the potential for that would be amazing. In that sense, I wonder how much the brain could take and absorb at once. The brain is already powerful, especially with the amount of processing and filtering it does from various inputs.
Hey, subliminal advertising? Imagine "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine" hitting your subconsious.;) Well, perhaps various marketing departments would be more nefarious than that.
I wonder if the process can be reversed, and images can be fed into the brain to create a dream sequence? Will people who really hate their reality use this as an escape and never try to wake up again?
Axe deodorant and body spray doesn't cause hordes of hot, horny women to pounce on me. News at eleven.
C'mon folks, when was there ever an advertisement that didn't misrepresent the product? Remember the late night infomercials for the "not sold in stores" products (that are actually sold in stores). I wish companies were more honest about their products, but people should never purchase something based on a commercial alone. You also need to go by word of mouth, in-store experience, and unbiased reviews.
what is the whole point of incarceration in the first place?
It depends on who you ask. Some say rehabilitation, others say punishment, and there are those that think it should be somewhere in between. Deprivation of rights (though cell phones / T.V. are more a privilege) if anything, should be a consequence of rehabilitation, unless you plan on keeping the individual in there for life. Maybe that individual cannot be rehabilitated.
I personally see no reason why a prisoner needs a cell phone anyhow. If they need to speak with their family or their lawyer, they can go through the prison system. ESPECIALLY in light of the fact that they're using the cell phones to intimidate witnesses, run drug deals, and order hits.
The female spider will sometimes attempt to eat the male after mating. The male, to reduce the risk of this, will often present the female with a gift such as a fly when approaching in the hope that this will satisfy her hunger.
The key word may be "attempt", but I'm sure the females have been successful from time to time. I seriously think this is hilarious. "Honey, here's some food, don't eat me after sex!"
they have successfully destabilized and thrown another i.t./internet pioneer company into turmoil. merger talks, hostile acquisition, collaborating with DOJ to get their ad deal investigated (dont tell me they didnt) and etc and voila - another company providing service to people for decades going bust.
The beauty of what you just said is that there are a lot of shareholders that WANTED the deal to go through with Microsoft despite seeing the dirty, hostile tactics Microsoft undertook to destroy Yahoo.
We've all seen what Microsoft has done with Hotmail, and we know that in the last fifteen years, Microsoft has done very little to bring anything innovative to the Web. So why would shareholders be excited about a deal? A temporary increase in stock price? But when Microsoft guts Yahoo, would the shareholders still smile?
No matter how you try to look at this, Obama won by a decent margin. Could it be that voters were voting for a change and not what you felt the media was force feeding them?
Obama Popular vote 65,431,955 Percentage 52.6% Electoral vote 365
McCain Popular Vote 57,434,084 Percentage 46.1% Electoral Vote 162
Now let's compare this to the 2004 election between Bush and Kerry
Bush Popular vote 62,040,610 Percentage 50.7% Electoral vote 286
Kerry Popular vote 59,028,444 Percentage 48.3% Electoral vote 251
After the 2004 election, Bush claimed that he had a "clear mandate."
Obama also had a large amount of money to spend. He energized a largely dormant base and got a lot of people who had never voted before out to vote. A little anecdote - my mother and sisters do not watch regular T.V. and hardly follow the news. But even they went out and voted for Obama.
His message resonated with voters. People wanted a new direction, and they felt that because the Presidency was in the hands of a Republican for eight years, and Congress for six, that it was their fault that this country is going in the wrong direction. Whether that's fair or not, when a mess happens under your watch, you get the blame.
You are quick to take credit away from Obama's solid campaign and blame the press for McCain's loss. McCain is a solid candidate and would have made a great President, but his problem was that he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate (instead of a more logical choice in Joseph Lieberman, or hell, even if he offered it to Ron Paul!) and he had an 'R' next to his name, the same as Bush. This was more voters getting sick of where we are, and wanting to vote for change.
Did they consider usage of the phone in this study? By usage, I mean frequency and what different functions the two phones perform for their owners. They may not have had that info available to them. The iPhone, for instance, may be used more frequently for casual affairs than a Blackberry, which will often make business trips with the user. I don't own an iPhone or a Blackberry, so I really wouldn't know. I read the article but not the full study within the article, and I didn't see usage as one of their factors.
It may be a moot point, however, as I have many coworkers that use an iPhone as their business phone, and they are constantly fiddling with it. But that's just my place of employment. If an iPhone is more casual and a Blackberry is used heavily in the workplace, then I would make a guess that there is a higher chance of something going wrong with the Blackberry.
Anyone else see the iPhone used by a majority in their work place as their business phone?
Thanks for the info about prosecution in Italy. The article made it sound like the charges were certain, especially with a title like "Four Google Officials Likely to Stand Trial in Italy".
But you do have a point, nowhere in the article does it say that the charges have been officially filed and that the four employees will be standing trial.
So let me get this straight, four kids were bullying a child with Down's Syndrome and a video of it was posted on Google Video. Rather than speaking with the parents of the children about bullying someone, especially someone with Down's Syndrome, prosecutors in Italy decide to go after Google? I don't think the teens involved should be going to jail and certainly Italian taxpayer time and money should not be directed completely on this. But I don't see how or why they are trying to go after Google, especially since they complied with the removal request within a day.
Also, for those of you wondering who Pancini is and didn't read the article, he is introduced in the article as Marco Pancini, Google's European public policy counsel. The summary does not mention who the hell he is.
It does - I've done it before and was given the message that my moderation was undone. The AC logged in, but checked "Post Anonymously", which only hides your user name and ID from the post. Not the same as logging out and then posting anonymously.
Well, Osama Bin Laden can call President George W. Bush a Muslim for efficiently doing something that he couldn't do - increase membership to al-Qaeda. But that wouldn't make Geroge W. Bush a Muslim. When I visit my relatives in Iran, the government of Iran considers me a Muslim, but I don't consider myself one, and I'm not. They don't ask me to pray five times a day and don't quiz me on the Koran upon entering the country. And so what if Senator Obama WAS a Muslim? There is no way Obama would be able to suddenly install Sharia Law all over America (which is what most people fear) without approval from Congress and the American people. He would be impeached for treason immediately.
There are many American Muslims that would be certainly qualified for Presidency. There are also many Muslims that serve in the U.S. Armed Forces, but I don't see you bitching about them. So it's okay for them to die for this country, but not okay to lead it?
I couldn't care less about a candidate's religion unless they wore it on their sleeve and wanted to pass laws and executive orders that changed the way I lived. This is precisely why the current crop of Republicans concern me, because they abandoned their "small Government" platform and went after the evangelical vote. They started pandering to the very people who want ME to follow their laws, their version of history, and their Bible. I am willing to vote for a Muslim, a Christian, a Catholic, a Buddhist, a Zoroastrian, an Atheist, and a Satanist (etc.) as long as they lead the country with rational thinking, intelligence, and submit to the will of the American people, not the other way around.
Besides, Obama would not last a MINUTE in office if he became President, then suddenly said "GOTCHA, I'm an evil Muslim, and I'm going to enslave you infidels.":P
Slashdot Mirror
What are these mysterious notifications that won't invoke a desire to perform some sort of action from the user?
Microsoft's notifications usually invoke a desire to throw the computer across the room.
I am quoting Mark Shuttleworth here, from the article:
The most controversial part of the proposal is the idea that notifications should not have actions associated with them. In other words, no buttons, sliders, links, or even a dismissal [x]. When a notification pops up, you won't be able to click on it, you won't be able to make it go away, you won't be able to follow it to another window, or to a web page. Are you loving this freedom? Hmmm? Madness, on the face of it, but there is method in this madness.
This goes with the "There should be no actions on notifications" bullet point from the article. This leaves the user with no recourse other than to kill the notification agent in case a notification becomes stuck. While this is only the display agent, there should always be an "exit" for the user.
We want to make notifications truly ephemeral. They are there, and then they are gone, and that's life.
[snip]
If you miss it, that's OK. Notifications are only for things which you can safely ignore or miss out on.
I left in the relevant text. At first glance, it may seem like the approach that they are going to take with all notifications, but the second point they make is:
We think there should be persistent panel indicators for things which you really need to know about, even if you missed the notification because you urgently wanted that coffee. So we are making a list of those things, and plan to implement them.
So this is a little better. If something is broken, there will be an indicator somewhere that will always let you know. For all other things, like someone logging in or your wifi connecting and disconnecting, it'll pop up and fade away. If you're there to see it, great. If you're not, then great. This isn't an entirely new concept. In Windows, if my wifi goes dead, I'll get a disconnection notice, which will fade away forever. In the system tray, I'll have a visual indicator in the form of a red X over the wireless icon.
One question I have - is this new notification agent something that will just sit in front of libnotify and take care of the aesthetic properties of the notification, or will the two work separately? I guess I just want to know the relationship between this agent and the libnotify daemon.
The inventor, Dr. James Tour, states that he did this "so that we can someday construct buildings and other large objects with molecular-size vehicles."
I'm curious to find out how long it would take for nanovehicles to construct large-sized objects. However, an even greater usage for this invention would be to repair and strengthen structurally unstable buildings, dams, levees, etc.
Good call. That's what dr_db's comment about accelerated learning made me think of.
Hmm, I didn't even think of that. And you're right, the potential for that would be amazing. In that sense, I wonder how much the brain could take and absorb at once. The brain is already powerful, especially with the amount of processing and filtering it does from various inputs.
Hey, subliminal advertising? Imagine "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine" hitting your subconsious. ;) Well, perhaps various marketing departments would be more nefarious than that.
They're trying to power a subway, not the LHC.
I wonder if the process can be reversed, and images can be fed into the brain to create a dream sequence? Will people who really hate their reality use this as an escape and never try to wake up again?
Cool story!
He'll have a "gnu" wife hahaha har har....sorry I have nothing.
Axe deodorant and body spray doesn't cause hordes of hot, horny women to pounce on me. News at eleven.
C'mon folks, when was there ever an advertisement that didn't misrepresent the product? Remember the late night infomercials for the "not sold in stores" products (that are actually sold in stores). I wish companies were more honest about their products, but people should never purchase something based on a commercial alone. You also need to go by word of mouth, in-store experience, and unbiased reviews.
Or the Deer Avenger games.
what is the whole point of incarceration in the first place?
It depends on who you ask. Some say rehabilitation, others say punishment, and there are those that think it should be somewhere in between. Deprivation of rights (though cell phones / T.V. are more a privilege) if anything, should be a consequence of rehabilitation, unless you plan on keeping the individual in there for life. Maybe that individual cannot be rehabilitated.
I personally see no reason why a prisoner needs a cell phone anyhow. If they need to speak with their family or their lawyer, they can go through the prison system. ESPECIALLY in light of the fact that they're using the cell phones to intimidate witnesses, run drug deals, and order hits.
Did they check the tool bag? Oh, wait...
Not so with the Nursery web spider:
The female spider will sometimes attempt to eat the male after mating. The male, to reduce the risk of this, will often present the female with a gift such as a fly when approaching in the hope that this will satisfy her hunger.
The key word may be "attempt", but I'm sure the females have been successful from time to time. I seriously think this is hilarious. "Honey, here's some food, don't eat me after sex!"
they have successfully destabilized and thrown another i.t./internet pioneer company into turmoil. merger talks, hostile acquisition, collaborating with DOJ to get their ad deal investigated (dont tell me they didnt) and etc and voila - another company providing service to people for decades going bust.
The beauty of what you just said is that there are a lot of shareholders that WANTED the deal to go through with Microsoft despite seeing the dirty, hostile tactics Microsoft undertook to destroy Yahoo.
We've all seen what Microsoft has done with Hotmail, and we know that in the last fifteen years, Microsoft has done very little to bring anything innovative to the Web. So why would shareholders be excited about a deal? A temporary increase in stock price? But when Microsoft guts Yahoo, would the shareholders still smile?
It's probably XP, as school laptops are involved. They're not likely to be vista capable.
I detect an oxymoron in this sentence, I just can't put my finger on it though...
No matter how you try to look at this, Obama won by a decent margin. Could it be that voters were voting for a change and not what you felt the media was force feeding them?
Obama
Popular vote 65,431,955
Percentage 52.6%
Electoral vote 365
McCain
Popular Vote 57,434,084
Percentage 46.1%
Electoral Vote 162
Now let's compare this to the 2004 election between Bush and Kerry
Bush
Popular vote 62,040,610
Percentage 50.7%
Electoral vote 286
Kerry
Popular vote 59,028,444
Percentage 48.3%
Electoral vote 251
After the 2004 election, Bush claimed that he had a "clear mandate."
Obama also had a large amount of money to spend. He energized a largely dormant base and got a lot of people who had never voted before out to vote. A little anecdote - my mother and sisters do not watch regular T.V. and hardly follow the news. But even they went out and voted for Obama.
His message resonated with voters. People wanted a new direction, and they felt that because the Presidency was in the hands of a Republican for eight years, and Congress for six, that it was their fault that this country is going in the wrong direction. Whether that's fair or not, when a mess happens under your watch, you get the blame.
You are quick to take credit away from Obama's solid campaign and blame the press for McCain's loss. McCain is a solid candidate and would have made a great President, but his problem was that he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate (instead of a more logical choice in Joseph Lieberman, or hell, even if he offered it to Ron Paul!) and he had an 'R' next to his name, the same as Bush. This was more voters getting sick of where we are, and wanting to vote for change.
Did they consider usage of the phone in this study? By usage, I mean frequency and what different functions the two phones perform for their owners. They may not have had that info available to them. The iPhone, for instance, may be used more frequently for casual affairs than a Blackberry, which will often make business trips with the user. I don't own an iPhone or a Blackberry, so I really wouldn't know. I read the article but not the full study within the article, and I didn't see usage as one of their factors.
It may be a moot point, however, as I have many coworkers that use an iPhone as their business phone, and they are constantly fiddling with it. But that's just my place of employment. If an iPhone is more casual and a Blackberry is used heavily in the workplace, then I would make a guess that there is a higher chance of something going wrong with the Blackberry.
Anyone else see the iPhone used by a majority in their work place as their business phone?
Thanks for the info about prosecution in Italy. The article made it sound like the charges were certain, especially with a title like "Four Google Officials Likely to Stand Trial in Italy".
But you do have a point, nowhere in the article does it say that the charges have been officially filed and that the four employees will be standing trial.
So let me get this straight, four kids were bullying a child with Down's Syndrome and a video of it was posted on Google Video. Rather than speaking with the parents of the children about bullying someone, especially someone with Down's Syndrome, prosecutors in Italy decide to go after Google? I don't think the teens involved should be going to jail and certainly Italian taxpayer time and money should not be directed completely on this. But I don't see how or why they are trying to go after Google, especially since they complied with the removal request within a day.
Also, for those of you wondering who Pancini is and didn't read the article, he is introduced in the article as Marco Pancini, Google's European public policy counsel. The summary does not mention who the hell he is.
It does - I've done it before and was given the message that my moderation was undone. The AC logged in, but checked "Post Anonymously", which only hides your user name and ID from the post. Not the same as logging out and then posting anonymously.
I suppose I could try putting Vista on my 33 MHz 486
Yep, just be sure that the turbo button is pressed on if you want to be able to move the mouse around.
Was it this guy?
(Forgive me mods, I posted this a week ago, but it was VERRRRY appropriate this time. No more, I promise!)
Well, Osama Bin Laden can call President George W. Bush a Muslim for efficiently doing something that he couldn't do - increase membership to al-Qaeda. But that wouldn't make Geroge W. Bush a Muslim. When I visit my relatives in Iran, the government of Iran considers me a Muslim, but I don't consider myself one, and I'm not. They don't ask me to pray five times a day and don't quiz me on the Koran upon entering the country. And so what if Senator Obama WAS a Muslim? There is no way Obama would be able to suddenly install Sharia Law all over America (which is what most people fear) without approval from Congress and the American people. He would be impeached for treason immediately.
There are many American Muslims that would be certainly qualified for Presidency. There are also many Muslims that serve in the U.S. Armed Forces, but I don't see you bitching about them. So it's okay for them to die for this country, but not okay to lead it?
I couldn't care less about a candidate's religion unless they wore it on their sleeve and wanted to pass laws and executive orders that changed the way I lived. This is precisely why the current crop of Republicans concern me, because they abandoned their "small Government" platform and went after the evangelical vote. They started pandering to the very people who want ME to follow their laws, their version of history, and their Bible. I am willing to vote for a Muslim, a Christian, a Catholic, a Buddhist, a Zoroastrian, an Atheist, and a Satanist (etc.) as long as they lead the country with rational thinking, intelligence, and submit to the will of the American people, not the other way around.
Besides, Obama would not last a MINUTE in office if he became President, then suddenly said "GOTCHA, I'm an evil Muslim, and I'm going to enslave you infidels." :P
It's a long way up those basement stairs! :`(
Adopt me! :D