Which may or may not be true, but isn't very important. Assuming that by known, you mean directly experienced by humans on a human-sized scale across a human-sized time span. However, we know of several things that do not have a cause, such as the radioactive decay of a particular atom. And consider too the emergent behaviour of cellular automata. What 'causes' the patterns that appear? What causes the distribution of the digits of pi? What causes your apparent free will?
Clear and direct causes appear in newtonian physics, and that's about it.
Either you had a bad teacher or you use bad documentation.
Neither. I'm just lazy. I expect the arrow keys to move the cursor. I expect other well-known and common paradigms to be present. I expect the interface to be non-modal - modal UIs are probably unavoidable in general, but should be avoided as much as possible. Vi breaks these expectations, and causes me to instantly give up and go back to something that isn't different to everything else for no reason.
Well, perhaps not. But I honestly fail to see how someone proficient in vim is more efficient than someone proficient in something that isn't deliberately as strange as possible. Maybe, in the past, when we didn't have arrow keys on our keyboards, and a mouse was just a rodent, vim made sense.
The bike does offer the advantage of being able to run that stall at the fair, and probably make a bit of money too. There's always an advantage somewhere. Also, if you're being chased, and only have the weird bike to hand, then boom, you're away laughing. I'd suggest learning both, just to be on the safe side.
Yes. It does suck. It's possible to learn it, just as it's possible to learn to ride one of those funny bikes that has the handlebars connected to the front wheel via a pair of cogs, so that turning left makes you turn right. It's possible to learn it, and even become proficient, and possibly even to make an argument that it's better for some definition of the word. But it still sucks.
Does GIMP UX suck?
Yes. It sucks too. Its use of space is inefficient, and the underlying implementation of it is exposed too much (I have to resize layers, rather than this being taken care of by the implementation automatically). That it happens to be ugly isn't really much more important than its dreadful name. They managed to rename Ethereal (wtf is that??) to Wireshark (good name, makes sense, lets you make jokes about frickn' lasers...). Why can't they manage it with the GIMP?. Yes, I know why they re-named Ethereal, that's beside the point.
In summary, don't cheap out on the UI because you want to use some open source UI library. Understand end-user expectations (i.e., not just YOUR expectations) and fill them.
Weren't you listening? It was 'Heavy Duty Text Editing'. Heavy Duty man. Not your grandfather's text editing, that's for sure. Probably such heavy duty actions as multiple search and replace, or multiple paste buffers, or search-and-replace while pasting, or regular expression search and replace in multiple paste buffers while simultaneously - oh I don't know - reading your email or something.
Having a clever command line style interface to your text editor, which really amounts to good keyboard shortcuts, doesn't prevent the existence of an intelligent UX (or UI plus workflow plus underlying concepts, which is kind of what UX is short for).
Computing isn't being dumbed down, you can do more today than you ever could. And people are still developing emacs, if that happens to be your bag.
because not having an account destroys their social lives.
Seriously? How does it do that, exactly? Does your email stop working, does your phone self-destruct? Are you teleported into outer space? It's possible to communicate with people without funnelling everything through a third party service that repays your loyalty by making large amounts of money from your information, and keeping it. Delete your Facebook account (I seriously encourage everyone to actually do this. The world would be enormously improved), and you'll find that your social life continues to function. We all gave Facebook this power, we can take it back.
Which means what, exactly? Since when, in the entire history of the world, have things been 'straightened out'? This is why Trump is a madman, and drags fools like you along with him. You don't even think for a moment about what he's actually saying.
ISIS has publicly stated that they intend to seed terrorists into the pool of immigrants
Yeah, they have. And if you somehow manage to prevent all people with beards coming into the country, I imagine they'll find a way to convince an extremist to shave before he shows up.
I mean, how would you even 'ban muslims'? It doesn't even make any sense. You going to ask them? You people already ask whether or not they're terrorists on that silly little form you have people fill in. Are you going to ask if they're Muslims too? What if they lie? OMG!
Truth is a word that has many meanings - and in fact, here's an interesting radio programme on the subject. You're maybe using it in at least two different ways. One can ask whether or not a particular result of an experiment is 'true', as in 'did that really occur'? Or one can ask what is really happening, what is the 'truth' behind a physical process?
I think the parent poster was suggesting that knowledge ('do my theories basically work more or less?') is in many respects more useful than 'truth' ('what's really going on here?'). It's entirely possible that no answer to the second question will ever be uncovered.
No, I suppose not. Should have paid more attention in history class - still, Trump is pretty scary, even from the perspective of someone like me on the other side of the world.
Godwin Bingo. This AC is on the money. Trump is as dangerous as Hitler was, it only remains to be seen whether or not he'll manage to procure himself any actual power. He's already poisoned the national conversation with lies and baseless accusations - and since the mainstream media is basically dead in the US, there's no-one to really stand up to what he's saying.
Remember: Hitler was voted in. Do not stay home during the elections, America. He will destroy your country if you let him.
Braeburn is the world's best apple. I have no idea whether or not it's on the shelves in the US, but here in New Zealand it's widely available. Damn, it's almost worth moving here just for them.
1) There's a need to conserve helium because it's non-renewable.
2) Use in hard-drives specifically isn't relevant. It's probably a waste, given that there are better technologies, but I don't think many of these particular drives are likely to be sold. I was arguing about the wider problem of helium usage, and your claim that the shortage didn't exist and/or that the market would sort it out
3) Thanks
I've got no idea about low-flow toilets, except that it sounds a bit gross, and American toilets are weird.
Disaster is predicted. People who are actually interested in science and evidence, listen and take steps to avoid the disaster. In this case, that would probably involve writing legislation around wasting helium during natural gas extraction - in other words, pushing back against the market's tendency to ignore problems until it's too late - or something similar.
As a result of these actions, disaster is averted. A consequence of this type of thing generally working much of the time, is that people find themselves believing that doomsday predictions are all bunk. Take the year 2000 bug, for instance. Disaster was predicted, many people spent a great deal of time and money ensuring the the disaster would be avoided. It worked. And everyone uses it as an example of how the doomsdayers are always wrong.
In this case, helium is scarce. It can't be made currently, nor does it look like we'll be making it in industrial quantities any time soon, if ever. Helium is also wasted, with something like 8% going into party balloons so that kids can get upset when they either deflate or escape into the sky. I'm sorry that you don't find this interesting, but fortunately there are people out there who do find it interesting, and luckily they're not the type of people who just believe that the market will fix it somehow.
I'm pretty sure that Helium is one of those things that you can't just make with current technology. Once it's gone out of the atmosphere, which is where it generally ends up, it's gone. Precisely how long this will take is very hard to say, but it will happen. And unlike fossil fuels, there is no substitute for helium that I know of.
It's also got an incredibly nice interface, which is a joy to use for animation and vector graphics.
Seriously, nothing else touches it. The way that it uses 2D constructive geometry, so that if you want to cut a hole in a square, you just draw a circle over the top and then delete it, is far and away the best model for vector graphics. Add layers, and the concept of "movie clips" (which is a bit of a misnomer I suppose), and the way in which they can have their own separate animation timelines controllable independently from the main timeline, and you've got a truly top-of-the-line tool.
Actionscript is a nice language, although the way in which its object model interacted with the object model of items on the stage was always a little uncomfortable. And the debugger was (is still?) spectacularly hideous.
Looks like they changed their mind. It was too late for POP though, and they closed down anyway. Mind you, in the spirit of kickstarter-bashing, it did seem to be a pretty stupid product.
I did some searching, and was unable to find support for this claim, which would surely run afoul of anti-trust laws would it not?
You wouldn't have a citation, would you?
I also couldn't find any reports of widely-available headphone remotes that permit volume control for Android devices, but I presume that there must be some out there.
Executive summary: It's a regular connector, with one side flattened so that it's slightly thinner. Means you have to insert the plug the right way around, which is a terrible idea. My vote: They won't do it. But then, I thought they wouldn't get rid of the magsafe connectors, and they have. In their defence, magsafe connectors are rather prone to dirt on the contacts preventing them from working
Which is shit, and breaks super-easily. And, considering that its primary use-case is now power, is designed entirely incorrectly for that purpose. It's keyed, and next to impossible to determine which way it should be inserted without either examining the connector carefully or trying three times. Its current carrying capacity is limited to 1.8Amps, which isn't enough to actually run a tablet without draining the battery, for instance.
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it could be a swam of self repairing replicating objects
Sounds like it could be Mantrid's drone arms, in which case we might be in trouble.
Everything we have ever known has had a cause
Which may or may not be true, but isn't very important. Assuming that by known, you mean directly experienced by humans on a human-sized scale across a human-sized time span. However, we know of several things that do not have a cause, such as the radioactive decay of a particular atom. And consider too the emergent behaviour of cellular automata. What 'causes' the patterns that appear? What causes the distribution of the digits of pi? What causes your apparent free will?
Clear and direct causes appear in newtonian physics, and that's about it.
Either you had a bad teacher or you use bad documentation.
Neither. I'm just lazy. I expect the arrow keys to move the cursor. I expect other well-known and common paradigms to be present. I expect the interface to be non-modal - modal UIs are probably unavoidable in general, but should be avoided as much as possible. Vi breaks these expectations, and causes me to instantly give up and go back to something that isn't different to everything else for no reason.
Well, perhaps not. But I honestly fail to see how someone proficient in vim is more efficient than someone proficient in something that isn't deliberately as strange as possible. Maybe, in the past, when we didn't have arrow keys on our keyboards, and a mouse was just a rodent, vim made sense.
The bike does offer the advantage of being able to run that stall at the fair, and probably make a bit of money too. There's always an advantage somewhere. Also, if you're being chased, and only have the weird bike to hand, then boom, you're away laughing. I'd suggest learning both, just to be on the safe side.
Brief, by a company named Underware.
Awesome.
block copy and paste
Visual Studio does a nice job with Alt+Drag. Or it might be the Visual Assist plugin, I'm not totally sure.
Does the vi UX suck? No,
Yes. It does suck. It's possible to learn it, just as it's possible to learn to ride one of those funny bikes that has the handlebars connected to the front wheel via a pair of cogs, so that turning left makes you turn right. It's possible to learn it, and even become proficient, and possibly even to make an argument that it's better for some definition of the word. But it still sucks.
Does GIMP UX suck?
Yes. It sucks too. Its use of space is inefficient, and the underlying implementation of it is exposed too much (I have to resize layers, rather than this being taken care of by the implementation automatically). That it happens to be ugly isn't really much more important than its dreadful name. They managed to rename Ethereal (wtf is that??) to Wireshark (good name, makes sense, lets you make jokes about frickn' lasers...). Why can't they manage it with the GIMP?. Yes, I know why they re-named Ethereal, that's beside the point.
In summary, don't cheap out on the UI because you want to use some open source UI library. Understand end-user expectations (i.e., not just YOUR expectations) and fill them.
Good advice. Trouble is, that's really expensive.
What's wrong with Photoshop's interface? Please be specific, because personally I find it excellent to use.
Weren't you listening? It was 'Heavy Duty Text Editing'. Heavy Duty man. Not your grandfather's text editing, that's for sure. Probably such heavy duty actions as multiple search and replace, or multiple paste buffers, or search-and-replace while pasting, or regular expression search and replace in multiple paste buffers while simultaneously - oh I don't know - reading your email or something.
Having a clever command line style interface to your text editor, which really amounts to good keyboard shortcuts, doesn't prevent the existence of an intelligent UX (or UI plus workflow plus underlying concepts, which is kind of what UX is short for).
Computing isn't being dumbed down, you can do more today than you ever could. And people are still developing emacs, if that happens to be your bag.
because not having an account destroys their social lives.
Seriously? How does it do that, exactly? Does your email stop working, does your phone self-destruct? Are you teleported into outer space? It's possible to communicate with people without funnelling everything through a third party service that repays your loyalty by making large amounts of money from your information, and keeping it. Delete your Facebook account (I seriously encourage everyone to actually do this. The world would be enormously improved), and you'll find that your social life continues to function. We all gave Facebook this power, we can take it back.
until things could be straightened out.
Which means what, exactly? Since when, in the entire history of the world, have things been 'straightened out'? This is why Trump is a madman, and drags fools like you along with him. You don't even think for a moment about what he's actually saying.
ISIS has publicly stated that they intend to seed terrorists into the pool of immigrants
Yeah, they have. And if you somehow manage to prevent all people with beards coming into the country, I imagine they'll find a way to convince an extremist to shave before he shows up.
I mean, how would you even 'ban muslims'? It doesn't even make any sense. You going to ask them? You people already ask whether or not they're terrorists on that silly little form you have people fill in. Are you going to ask if they're Muslims too? What if they lie? OMG!
Truth is a word that has many meanings - and in fact, here's an interesting radio programme on the subject. You're maybe using it in at least two different ways. One can ask whether or not a particular result of an experiment is 'true', as in 'did that really occur'? Or one can ask what is really happening, what is the 'truth' behind a physical process?
I think the parent poster was suggesting that knowledge ('do my theories basically work more or less?') is in many respects more useful than 'truth' ('what's really going on here?'). It's entirely possible that no answer to the second question will ever be uncovered.
No, I suppose not. Should have paid more attention in history class - still, Trump is pretty scary, even from the perspective of someone like me on the other side of the world.
Godwin Bingo. This AC is on the money. Trump is as dangerous as Hitler was, it only remains to be seen whether or not he'll manage to procure himself any actual power. He's already poisoned the national conversation with lies and baseless accusations - and since the mainstream media is basically dead in the US, there's no-one to really stand up to what he's saying.
Remember: Hitler was voted in. Do not stay home during the elections, America. He will destroy your country if you let him.
Braeburn is the world's best apple. I have no idea whether or not it's on the shelves in the US, but here in New Zealand it's widely available. Damn, it's almost worth moving here just for them.
1) There's a need to conserve helium because it's non-renewable.
2) Use in hard-drives specifically isn't relevant. It's probably a waste, given that there are better technologies, but I don't think many of these particular drives are likely to be sold. I was arguing about the wider problem of helium usage, and your claim that the shortage didn't exist and/or that the market would sort it out
3) Thanks
I've got no idea about low-flow toilets, except that it sounds a bit gross, and American toilets are weird.
So here's how it works.
Disaster is predicted. People who are actually interested in science and evidence, listen and take steps to avoid the disaster. In this case, that would probably involve writing legislation around wasting helium during natural gas extraction - in other words, pushing back against the market's tendency to ignore problems until it's too late - or something similar.
As a result of these actions, disaster is averted. A consequence of this type of thing generally working much of the time, is that people find themselves believing that doomsday predictions are all bunk. Take the year 2000 bug, for instance. Disaster was predicted, many people spent a great deal of time and money ensuring the the disaster would be avoided. It worked. And everyone uses it as an example of how the doomsdayers are always wrong.
In this case, helium is scarce. It can't be made currently, nor does it look like we'll be making it in industrial quantities any time soon, if ever. Helium is also wasted, with something like 8% going into party balloons so that kids can get upset when they either deflate or escape into the sky. I'm sorry that you don't find this interesting, but fortunately there are people out there who do find it interesting, and luckily they're not the type of people who just believe that the market will fix it somehow.
I'm pretty sure that Helium is one of those things that you can't just make with current technology. Once it's gone out of the atmosphere, which is where it generally ends up, it's gone. Precisely how long this will take is very hard to say, but it will happen. And unlike fossil fuels, there is no substitute for helium that I know of.
Time to deprecate the Latin abbreviations
I'll update the documentation. Should be phased out within the week.
It's also got an incredibly nice interface, which is a joy to use for animation and vector graphics.
Seriously, nothing else touches it. The way that it uses 2D constructive geometry, so that if you want to cut a hole in a square, you just draw a circle over the top and then delete it, is far and away the best model for vector graphics. Add layers, and the concept of "movie clips" (which is a bit of a misnomer I suppose), and the way in which they can have their own separate animation timelines controllable independently from the main timeline, and you've got a truly top-of-the-line tool.
Actionscript is a nice language, although the way in which its object model interacted with the object model of items on the stage was always a little uncomfortable. And the debugger was (is still?) spectacularly hideous.
Looks like they changed their mind. It was too late for POP though, and they closed down anyway. Mind you, in the spirit of kickstarter-bashing, it did seem to be a pretty stupid product.
I did some searching, and was unable to find support for this claim, which would surely run afoul of anti-trust laws would it not?
You wouldn't have a citation, would you?
I also couldn't find any reports of widely-available headphone remotes that permit volume control for Android devices, but I presume that there must be some out there.
Grrr
Clickable link for the lazy
Executive summary: It's a regular connector, with one side flattened so that it's slightly thinner. Means you have to insert the plug the right way around, which is a terrible idea. My vote: They won't do it. But then, I thought they wouldn't get rid of the magsafe connectors, and they have. In their defence, magsafe connectors are rather prone to dirt on the contacts preventing them from working
ubiquitous micro USB
Which is shit, and breaks super-easily. And, considering that its primary use-case is now power, is designed entirely incorrectly for that purpose. It's keyed, and next to impossible to determine which way it should be inserted without either examining the connector carefully or trying three times. Its current carrying capacity is limited to 1.8Amps, which isn't enough to actually run a tablet without draining the battery, for instance.
You know, I love Apple products generally, but I can't disagree with any of of his.
Especially the "buttons disguised as text" thing. Terrible. Google are even worse at this particular design error though.