not only that but the foremost portion of the bike in the middle would be your head. Sure, you have those big wheel arms out to the side but if you hit a tree head on it would literally be head on.
like I would ever ride a bike that topped out at 75. I rarely ride that fast but when you are at highway speeds and need to get out of the way of something hitting some artificial speed limitation is about the last thing you want.
well at least a normal motorbike has the option of a windshield. But from experience I can tell you that you are right and that junebugs hitting you in the chest at 60 MPH hurt... a lot.
A while back there was some guy that wanted to mandate seat belts on motorcycles. This isn't a good idea since, in a crash bikes go every which way and you don't want to end up crushed under it. The belt that connects you to your safety gear is your helmet strap.
If this thing went off its wheels I cant imagine it would provide all that much protection to the rider who is strapped into it. If nothing else your limbs are free to be torn off.
if your under suspicion for who you are then you are pretty well fucked. But if your just worried about a random security search and wanting to keep certain data private you only need to get past that first step because they will not spend the money to dig deeper even if they do copy your hard drive.
if you are a known individual (person of interest) and you expect to be stopped at the border, don't carry sensitive material with you. Hell, just mail a flash drive.
This is why I'm not sure it matters if google and yahoo merge unless they tell advertisers "you can only use our service if you use it exclusively." Anyone else could come along and build an advertising network fairly easily. Its still hard to get a bunch of advertisers and web sites to advertise on, but its hard to do that now (classic chicken/egg problem).
what they should really be doing is patching it out of games after a set amount of time. A year or 2 after Madded 2005 comes out, is it really worth their time and money running an authentication server when they are making all their money on Madden 2007?
At least that would be a somewhat reasonable way to approach this... DRM that is only in effect when the game is new. Companies don't make much money off of old games.
Its still crappy since it stops you from playing your favorite single player game on the plane or when your network is down, but at least it would take away the fear that your games are going to become worthless when they are no longer worth supporting.
Of course this model wouldn't work for movies and music which continue to make money for a while after they come out.
iTunes is not the only source for music online. If you want MP3s of just about anything on iTunes you can go get it someplace else. That MP3 will play on any MP3 player.
Apple does not have a monopoly on MP3 sales or on MP3 player sales, so yes, it is okay.
Im not really sure that I see Google-yahoo as being a major monopoly issue. Nothing about that merger puts a barrier to entry on the search engine market. If you want to develop a better search method and put it on line you can do that without any problem. If its way better you might even unseat google for search.
It would require google cutting deals with browser makers and PC manufactures to be the one and only search engine for that browser/PC that you would start having trouble. Or if they set up deals with web sites that they would only appear in google searches if they somehow shunned other search engines.
Just being the biggest player in town doesn't necessarily make you an illegal monopoly. It doesn't even make you a monopoly if its trivial for someone to set up shop to compete with you. Its not like google.
one could always distribute the plugin some other way. It the functionality is so sought after I'm sure that people would go out of their way to find it. I use Firefox plugins that didn't come with the original Firefox install.
It really doesn't sound like a fork was necessary. The devs might be being dicks but a plugin architecture is there to allow third parties to mold an application the way they want it to be molded and it keeps responsibility for making sure the plugin is compatible squarely on the shoulders of those who what the functionality.
Personally, I strongly prefer the single-stroke Escape to the hand-cramping Ctrl+w. Hand cramping? Really? I mean it has to be one of the easiest control key combinations around. Admitedly I like it bit more on the mac where it is Cmd-W, but still.
Now Escape is a good key for this particular application, and I agree that it was a bad idea to remove it from the application, but I just don't get the hate for Ctrl-W.
Its important to remember though that with many options you increase the amount of testing an application requires. That might not be the case for this text entry box, but having an option of MDI or not is pretty significant. It would be easy for a developer to put in a feature that breaks the option he doesnt use and it becomes necessary for QA to do a full regression in both modes.
People love options, but they arent always whats best for a product. If you can come up with one option that makes 90% of users happy thats probably better than having a preference that doubles the amount of testing you have to do.
This case, however, seems like a good candidate for an option.
Apple doesn't have to distribute the source code for you though... couldn't you provide it on your own web site and just provide a link with the binary?
Obviously the question of the API being confidential would be an issue for GPL v2 but I don't think the code distribution issue is a real one. Plenty of people seem to provide binaries with just a link to the source code if you want it.
Mostly, I agree with your post but one thing stands out for me. If a major bug makes it to production, I don't put that on the dev team. That is a failure of the QA department. Sure, its up to the dev team to fix it, but I don't think enough responsibility is put on QA and their ability to test the software. Admittedly most QA departments are understaffed and underfunded, but it is clearly their responsibility to find critical bugs in a release before it goes live.
I did as well. I'm not sure what apple is doing to their screens but I work in a well lit room with light at my back and I don't have issues with glare on my MBP. Other Glossy screens I have seen in the same environment were more of an issue.
I was happy to have the choice when I bought my MacBook Pro. I was surprised though. Unlike many of the other vendors I have looked at I liked the glossy screen on the MBP more than the matte. I work in a very bright location and I have not had any trouble with glare at all. I have found the glossy screen to be quite nice.
Of course part of this might be the super bright LED backlight.
honestly... if these guys are taking Dexedrine and getting positive results, they are probably candidates for a prescription anyway. For most people without focus issues these drugs can result in more distraction than anything else.
Other than the fact that XCode pisses me off (though really, I haven't seen an IDE I like in years) I pretty much completely agree with you. Coding in Objective-C is a pleasure. Things really work well and the whole language feels well thought out.
Interface builder I absolutely love. Nothing else seems to come close.
I have been wishing that apple would bring open-step back and allow for cross platform development in Cocoa. I can see why they don't, but it would be a really good thing for the market if you could reliably develop cross platform applications like that.
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I think you would have to do a whole different book for manga. It seems to be its own art form with its own conventions.
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I dont know, you may be right but the whole super villain explains his plan to the hero just in time for him to save the day is totally James Bond. This bit has been over used in books and movies for so long I really dont think you need to be familiar with comics for it to make sense.
And the comic within a comic bit is also a standard device... fairly rare in comics actually, but I have definitely seen it in literature before.
Where you are right about familiarity mattering is probably the whole superhero plot line. If you have no concept of the comic book super hero then its hard to understand the "realistic" charachters in Watchmen. But then again, how many people dont know about superman and batman. I wasn't a huge comic fan when I read the Watchmen and I didn't have trouble with it. It was because of Watchmen, The Dark Knight and Arkum Asylum that I got into comics in the first place.
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Generally I agree with you... but I'm not sure I get your Gibson example. His stuff was so different I feel like you could easily read it without a background in other Sci-fi.
Your comment on comics is dead on though. You cant compare them as word craft when much of the story is told visually.
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not only that but the foremost portion of the bike in the middle would be your head. Sure, you have those big wheel arms out to the side but if you hit a tree head on it would literally be head on.
Sounds like a bad plan.
like I would ever ride a bike that topped out at 75. I rarely ride that fast but when you are at highway speeds and need to get out of the way of something hitting some artificial speed limitation is about the last thing you want.
well at least a normal motorbike has the option of a windshield. But from experience I can tell you that you are right and that junebugs hitting you in the chest at 60 MPH hurt... a lot.
This would be worse.
A while back there was some guy that wanted to mandate seat belts on motorcycles. This isn't a good idea since, in a crash bikes go every which way and you don't want to end up crushed under it. The belt that connects you to your safety gear is your helmet strap.
If this thing went off its wheels I cant imagine it would provide all that much protection to the rider who is strapped into it. If nothing else your limbs are free to be torn off.
Can I get a "special" copy of XP with the crap trimmed out?
I have been denied access to countries for less than not providing a password. They can pretty much turn you away because they feel like it.
if your under suspicion for who you are then you are pretty well fucked. But if your just worried about a random security search and wanting to keep certain data private you only need to get past that first step because they will not spend the money to dig deeper even if they do copy your hard drive.
if you are a known individual (person of interest) and you expect to be stopped at the border, don't carry sensitive material with you. Hell, just mail a flash drive.
As a counter point. I know several people that owned early iMacs and later iMacs and not a single one of them bought the floppy drive.
For many people the floppy was already dead by the time the iMac came out. I had long since stopped using sneaker net to transfer files around.
This is why I'm not sure it matters if google and yahoo merge unless they tell advertisers "you can only use our service if you use it exclusively." Anyone else could come along and build an advertising network fairly easily. Its still hard to get a bunch of advertisers and web sites to advertise on, but its hard to do that now (classic chicken/egg problem).
what they should really be doing is patching it out of games after a set amount of time. A year or 2 after Madded 2005 comes out, is it really worth their time and money running an authentication server when they are making all their money on Madden 2007?
At least that would be a somewhat reasonable way to approach this... DRM that is only in effect when the game is new. Companies don't make much money off of old games.
Its still crappy since it stops you from playing your favorite single player game on the plane or when your network is down, but at least it would take away the fear that your games are going to become worthless when they are no longer worth supporting.
Of course this model wouldn't work for movies and music which continue to make money for a while after they come out.
iTunes is not the only source for music online. If you want MP3s of just about anything on iTunes you can go get it someplace else. That MP3 will play on any MP3 player.
Apple does not have a monopoly on MP3 sales or on MP3 player sales, so yes, it is okay.
Im not really sure that I see Google-yahoo as being a major monopoly issue. Nothing about that merger puts a barrier to entry on the search engine market. If you want to develop a better search method and put it on line you can do that without any problem. If its way better you might even unseat google for search.
It would require google cutting deals with browser makers and PC manufactures to be the one and only search engine for that browser/PC that you would start having trouble. Or if they set up deals with web sites that they would only appear in google searches if they somehow shunned other search engines.
Just being the biggest player in town doesn't necessarily make you an illegal monopoly. It doesn't even make you a monopoly if its trivial for someone to set up shop to compete with you. Its not like google.
one could always distribute the plugin some other way. It the functionality is so sought after I'm sure that people would go out of their way to find it. I use Firefox plugins that didn't come with the original Firefox install.
It really doesn't sound like a fork was necessary. The devs might be being dicks but a plugin architecture is there to allow third parties to mold an application the way they want it to be molded and it keeps responsibility for making sure the plugin is compatible squarely on the shoulders of those who what the functionality.
Now Escape is a good key for this particular application, and I agree that it was a bad idea to remove it from the application, but I just don't get the hate for Ctrl-W.
Its important to remember though that with many options you increase the amount of testing an application requires. That might not be the case for this text entry box, but having an option of MDI or not is pretty significant. It would be easy for a developer to put in a feature that breaks the option he doesnt use and it becomes necessary for QA to do a full regression in both modes.
People love options, but they arent always whats best for a product. If you can come up with one option that makes 90% of users happy thats probably better than having a preference that doubles the amount of testing you have to do.
This case, however, seems like a good candidate for an option.
Apple doesn't have to distribute the source code for you though... couldn't you provide it on your own web site and just provide a link with the binary?
Obviously the question of the API being confidential would be an issue for GPL v2 but I don't think the code distribution issue is a real one. Plenty of people seem to provide binaries with just a link to the source code if you want it.
Mostly, I agree with your post but one thing stands out for me. If a major bug makes it to production, I don't put that on the dev team. That is a failure of the QA department. Sure, its up to the dev team to fix it, but I don't think enough responsibility is put on QA and their ability to test the software. Admittedly most QA departments are understaffed and underfunded, but it is clearly their responsibility to find critical bugs in a release before it goes live.
I did as well. I'm not sure what apple is doing to their screens but I work in a well lit room with light at my back and I don't have issues with glare on my MBP. Other Glossy screens I have seen in the same environment were more of an issue.
I was happy to have the choice when I bought my MacBook Pro. I was surprised though. Unlike many of the other vendors I have looked at I liked the glossy screen on the MBP more than the matte. I work in a very bright location and I have not had any trouble with glare at all. I have found the glossy screen to be quite nice.
Of course part of this might be the super bright LED backlight.
honestly... if these guys are taking Dexedrine and getting positive results, they are probably candidates for a prescription anyway. For most people without focus issues these drugs can result in more distraction than anything else.
Other than the fact that XCode pisses me off (though really, I haven't seen an IDE I like in years) I pretty much completely agree with you. Coding in Objective-C is a pleasure. Things really work well and the whole language feels well thought out.
Interface builder I absolutely love. Nothing else seems to come close.
I have been wishing that apple would bring open-step back and allow for cross platform development in Cocoa. I can see why they don't, but it would be a really good thing for the market if you could reliably develop cross platform applications like that.
I think you would have to do a whole different book for manga. It seems to be its own art form with its own conventions.
I dont know, you may be right but the whole super villain explains his plan to the hero just in time for him to save the day is totally James Bond. This bit has been over used in books and movies for so long I really dont think you need to be familiar with comics for it to make sense.
And the comic within a comic bit is also a standard device... fairly rare in comics actually, but I have definitely seen it in literature before.
Where you are right about familiarity mattering is probably the whole superhero plot line. If you have no concept of the comic book super hero then its hard to understand the "realistic" charachters in Watchmen. But then again, how many people dont know about superman and batman. I wasn't a huge comic fan when I read the Watchmen and I didn't have trouble with it. It was because of Watchmen, The Dark Knight and Arkum Asylum that I got into comics in the first place.
Generally I agree with you... but I'm not sure I get your Gibson example. His stuff was so different I feel like you could easily read it without a background in other Sci-fi.
Your comment on comics is dead on though. You cant compare them as word craft when much of the story is told visually.