Does it matter if it's a group of students or a group of politicians? or a group of little old ladies? or a group of aliens from Betelgeuse?
In all seriousness, it doesn't matter *who* does the censoring, they'll always get it wrong. Only the end viewer requesting the page can decide if something is "hardcore" or merely "erotica". Nobody can decide what standards are acceptable to anyone else.
The Group isn't doing the censoring, the Parents are. The group just categorizes websites, they don't choose to block anything. Even if they put everything in to "Hardcore" it wouldn't be blocked unless the parents choose to block it.
No, the point is it doesn't show the user what to do to return to where he came from before. Having another screen half turn, half slide in from two directions at once gives you no fucking clue how to go back. You're just staring confused and dazzled at what's going on on the screen. A good UI should help the user to get some spatial orientation by relating to physical models.
Why does it have to/show/ them? They just swiped left, the obvious way to get back is to swipe to the right. Not everyone needs a visual indication of how to undo every single action they take.
Scrolling the screen pops new content up from "within" the device. That makes absolutely no sense. It's eye candy that detracts from usability. Not to be a fanboi, but the various animations in iOS serve to provide visual cues to the user on what is happening and how to use the UI. Apple is very up front in their UI guidelines about how animations should serve to inform the user on what is happening. This Android animation completely fails at that.
It looks fine to me. Like you are sliding the top page off of a stack of papers to reveal the one under it, only with a bit more 3D to it.
Seriously, this exact mistake seems to occur at least a couple times a year. You would think that anyone with enough security clearance to make redactions would, I don't know, take a 4 hour training course on how to use MS Word? Do they hand this job off to interns, or what?
It occurs enough that I surprised the PDF companies haven't added a check to detect when the same background and foreground colors are used so that a warning can be displayed.
I want a way to easily change the permissions granted to an application, without the application's knowledge. If I decide that an application has no business making or receiving a text message, I should be able to disable that capability, all without the application being aware that it's attempt to send a text message failed.
Cyanogenmod can do this if you enable some of the advanced features. Once the app is installed you can go in where you view the permissions it needs and toggle some of them off. Badly designed apps may crash, but most stuff I've done it to has happily continued running.
The recent flooding here in the North East that took out power all over the place also proved to me that people have no idea that you are supposed to STOP at a signal that isn't operational. I almost got hit from behind several times just from trying to follow basic traffic laws.
traffic lights along wilshire routinely pulse and blink on and off at night for no reason.
Umm... Many cities set their traffic signals to blink at night because it's more efficient for the reduced traffic load to treat the intersection as stop sign than to sit and wait for an entire light cycle.
Disclaimer: I have never owned an android device, and my experience is quite limited. AFAIK, when you install an app it asks your permission to do a number of tasks(update x, send messages, place calls ect...) Perhaps this limitation allows apps to do only one of those things. EG. a multimedia app that formerly played audio over bluetooth(task 1) and prevented your phone from sleep mode(task 2) is now crippled so it can do just one of those things
My interpretation as an android developer is this.
Android allows apps to have multiple Intents. An intent is like a Form / Window / UI. Almost all non trivial apps are made up of multiple intents. I believe these will still work.
Now, you have to mark one or more of these intents as a start up intent. It's like the entry point of the program. An app with multiple start up intents will have an entry on the "start menu" for each one, but pointing to the same application. It sounds like its only apps with multiple start up intents that won't work. I really seems like an odd restriction to me.
The users will blame android, that makes it Google's problem. Hell, I'm a geek and I still blame Google for allowing the manufacturers to get away with ridiculous restrictions.
strongly disagree. Can you imagine the byzantine billing system required to select which of the thousands of channels you want? And the staggering cost of customer service as people call in to sign up for, or cancel, channels? Some people are going to demand only 3 channels or perhaps 6 channels, so that complicates the billing system even more, assuming non-linear cost. The people who "need" 6 channels but only pay for 4 and constantly change their lineup burning customer service hours will need some extra signup fees to discourage them.
Its easily possible to make the billing system the most expensive part of providing service. Look what happened in long distance telephone calls...
There are these things called "web sites" and "check boxes" that might help with this.
"Without evidence of tampering" obviously refers to the state of the machines if the alien circuitry is removed before inspection. The attack does not require any wires to be cut or internal components to be destroyed or removed, which would leave physical evidence.
You do have a point about the screen blanking, though. Although it only blanks for a split second and I guess most users could be led to believe that this was normal behaviour. Is it suspicious enough for the regular Joe election supervisor to call off the poll and open up the machine?
Isn't there usually some sort of Tamper Seal on these things that has to be broken in order to open them up and install new parts?
Should not be a problem unless Verizons engineers are complete idiots and preventing you from talking to any SMTP server they don't own.
This is EXACTLY what they do. They block all outgoing connections with a destination of Port 25 unless it is one their SMTP servers. The alternative is to hope the server you want to connect to has an alternate port defined.
There's nothing wrong with a legitimately achieved and maintained monopoly.
I wasn't arguing that there was anything wrong with it. I was just pointing out that the OP was wrong when they said Google didn't have a monopoly based on the same criteria applied to Microsoft.
Yup. But google doesn't have a monopoly in search.
Google has a higher percentage of the search market than Microsoft has of the OS market; Slashdot constantly tells me that Microsoft is a monopoly. Doesn't that mean that Google has a monopoly?
There are no consequences. Make the players endure a court martial and maybe their actions would change.
This is another reason why the Elder Scrolls series is so incredibly good: if you're seen killing an innocent, you instantly get a bounty on your head, guards chase you relentlessly, and you have to pay the price (although there are ways around it for cheaters).
But I suspect developers of FPS games aren't that interested in moral realism, just graphics and sound.
And then you get to do the cool Dark Brotherhood quests.
At 30k, the edge of the platter is travelling at: 8.75cm (about the diameter of a platter) * pi * 30.000 = 8,24 km/m or just under 500km/h.
A 60k drive would be breaking the sound barrier; there is no way that would ever happen inside your computer.
The speed of sound is based on the medium it passes through. That's specifically why the OP mentioned rarefied sealed cases. The atmospheric conditions inside the closed and sealed hard drive could allow for much higher speeds that hard drives, without the sonic transition, than the "common" atmosphere drives we use now.
"The really clever bit, and you might not notice it unless you look closely at the video, is that the ball bounces off real architectural features of the building — like the windows, for example"
Except that it doesn't actually do that from what I can see in the video. It bounces off the/sides/ of the building, but it goes right through the window.
The energy in subway trains is dwarfed by the energy used and lost on runways for jetliners. Imagine a system where, when a plane touches down, the energy is absorbed by a ground-based system that is then used to assist in takeoff for the next plane.
I suppose the natural first use of this would be on aircraft carriers. They already use systems to assist the takeoff, and they use hooks and cables in landing. They just need to efficiently store all that energy for reuse. (Then, again, when you have your own private nuclear reactor, energy for the catapult system may not be such a big deal.)
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Does it matter if it's a group of students or a group of politicians? or a group of little old ladies? or a group of aliens from Betelgeuse?
In all seriousness, it doesn't matter *who* does the censoring, they'll always get it wrong. Only the end viewer requesting the page can decide if something is "hardcore" or merely "erotica". Nobody can decide what standards are acceptable to anyone else.
The Group isn't doing the censoring, the Parents are. The group just categorizes websites, they don't choose to block anything. Even if they put everything in to "Hardcore" it wouldn't be blocked unless the parents choose to block it.
No, the point is it doesn't show the user what to do to return to where he came from before. Having another screen half turn, half slide in from two directions at once gives you no fucking clue how to go back. You're just staring confused and dazzled at what's going on on the screen. A good UI should help the user to get some spatial orientation by relating to physical models.
Why does it have to /show/ them? They just swiped left, the obvious way to get back is to swipe to the right. Not everyone needs a visual indication of how to undo every single action they take.
Scrolling the screen pops new content up from "within" the device. That makes absolutely no sense. It's eye candy that detracts from usability.
Not to be a fanboi, but the various animations in iOS serve to provide visual cues to the user on what is happening and how to use the UI. Apple is very up front in their UI guidelines about how animations should serve to inform the user on what is happening. This Android animation completely fails at that.
It looks fine to me. Like you are sliding the top page off of a stack of papers to reveal the one under it, only with a bit more 3D to it.
Seriously, this exact mistake seems to occur at least a couple times a year. You would think that anyone with enough security clearance to make redactions would, I don't know, take a 4 hour training course on how to use MS Word? Do they hand this job off to interns, or what?
It occurs enough that I surprised the PDF companies haven't added a check to detect when the same background and foreground colors are used so that a warning can be displayed.
WTFV. He says in it that the recorder was only doing 23 frames but if you run it yourself in a browser it's 60.
Except the summary says that the video is PROOF of it running at 60fps. The video doesn't prove it if it doesn't show it.
He also mentions that the video recorder on his machine is slowing it down, and it gets anywhere from 60 to 120 fps without it.
Except they claim the video is proof that it runs at 60fps when it is no such thing.
the video looked more like it was going around 19fps, not 60.
Cyanogenmod can do this if you enable some of the advanced features. Once the app is installed you can go in where you view the permissions it needs and toggle some of them off. Badly designed apps may crash, but most stuff I've done it to has happily continued running.
The recent flooding here in the North East that took out power all over the place also proved to me that people have no idea that you are supposed to STOP at a signal that isn't operational. I almost got hit from behind several times just from trying to follow basic traffic laws.
traffic lights along wilshire routinely pulse and blink on and off at night for no reason.
Umm... Many cities set their traffic signals to blink at night because it's more efficient for the reduced traffic load to treat the intersection as stop sign than to sit and wait for an entire light cycle.
Disclaimer: I have never owned an android device, and my experience is quite limited.
AFAIK, when you install an app it asks your permission to do a number of tasks(update x, send messages, place calls ect...) Perhaps this limitation allows apps to do only one of those things. EG. a multimedia app that formerly played audio over bluetooth(task 1) and prevented your phone from sleep mode(task 2) is now crippled so it can do just one of those things
My interpretation as an android developer is this.
Android allows apps to have multiple Intents. An intent is like a Form / Window / UI. Almost all non trivial apps are made up of multiple intents. I believe these will still work.
Now, you have to mark one or more of these intents as a start up intent. It's like the entry point of the program. An app with multiple start up intents will have an entry on the "start menu" for each one, but pointing to the same application. It sounds like its only apps with multiple start up intents that won't work. I really seems like an odd restriction to me.
The users will blame android, that makes it Google's problem.
Hell, I'm a geek and I still blame Google for allowing the manufacturers to get away with ridiculous restrictions.
Healthy relationships would kill HIV 100%, not 90.
Meanwhile, back in reality....
strongly disagree. Can you imagine the byzantine billing system required to select which of the thousands of channels you want? And the staggering cost of customer service as people call in to sign up for, or cancel, channels? Some people are going to demand only 3 channels or perhaps 6 channels, so that complicates the billing system even more, assuming non-linear cost. The people who "need" 6 channels but only pay for 4 and constantly change their lineup burning customer service hours will need some extra signup fees to discourage them.
Its easily possible to make the billing system the most expensive part of providing service. Look what happened in long distance telephone calls...
There are these things called "web sites" and "check boxes" that might help with this.
"Without evidence of tampering" obviously refers to the state of the machines if the alien circuitry is removed before inspection. The attack does not require any wires to be cut or internal components to be destroyed or removed, which would leave physical evidence.
You do have a point about the screen blanking, though. Although it only blanks for a split second and I guess most users could be led to believe that this was normal behaviour. Is it suspicious enough for the regular Joe election supervisor to call off the poll and open up the machine?
Isn't there usually some sort of Tamper Seal on these things that has to be broken in order to open them up and install new parts?
Should not be a problem unless Verizons engineers are complete idiots and preventing you from talking to any SMTP server they don't own.
This is EXACTLY what they do. They block all outgoing connections with a destination of Port 25 unless it is one their SMTP servers. The alternative is to hope the server you want to connect to has an alternate port defined.
Not technically true, unless you're looking at Microsoft as a percent of the TOTAL OS market and not just Desktop OS, which would be a bit.
That is exactly what I'm looking at. I'm comparing all of Microsoft's OS products with all of Google's Search products.
There's nothing wrong with a legitimately achieved and maintained monopoly.
I wasn't arguing that there was anything wrong with it. I was just pointing out that the OP was wrong when they said Google didn't have a monopoly based on the same criteria applied to Microsoft.
Yup. But google doesn't have a monopoly in search.
Google has a higher percentage of the search market than Microsoft has of the OS market; Slashdot constantly tells me that Microsoft is a monopoly. Doesn't that mean that Google has a monopoly?
There are no consequences. Make the players endure a court martial and maybe their actions would change.
This is another reason why the Elder Scrolls series is so incredibly good: if you're seen killing an innocent, you instantly get a bounty on your head, guards chase you relentlessly, and you have to pay the price (although there are ways around it for cheaters).
But I suspect developers of FPS games aren't that interested in moral realism, just graphics and sound.
And then you get to do the cool Dark Brotherhood quests.
How about an expectation of Mind Your Own Business? Does that work for you?
I think parking in a parking lot of a mall they own, a mall designed for doing business, counts as part of their business.
At 30k, the edge of the platter is travelling at:
8.75cm (about the diameter of a platter) * pi * 30.000 =
8,24 km/m or just under 500km/h.
A 60k drive would be breaking the sound barrier; there is no way that would ever happen inside your computer.
The speed of sound is based on the medium it passes through. That's specifically why the OP mentioned rarefied sealed cases. The atmospheric conditions inside the closed and sealed hard drive could allow for much higher speeds that hard drives, without the sonic transition, than the "common" atmosphere drives we use now.
"The really clever bit, and you might not notice it unless you look closely at the video, is that the ball bounces off real architectural features of the building — like the windows, for example"
Except that it doesn't actually do that from what I can see in the video. It bounces off the /sides/ of the building, but it goes right through the window.
The energy in subway trains is dwarfed by the energy used and lost on runways for jetliners. Imagine a system where, when a plane touches down, the energy is absorbed by a ground-based system that is then used to assist in takeoff for the next plane.
I suppose the natural first use of this would be on aircraft carriers. They already use systems to assist the takeoff, and they use hooks and cables in landing. They just need to efficiently store all that energy for reuse. (Then, again, when you have your own private nuclear reactor, energy for the catapult system may not be such a big deal.)
Nuclear Powered Subway Trains? I LIKE it!
Missing: .
- network cable
Seriously? You are going to ding them for not including a network cable?