Re:Next, Lego Will Make It a Creativity-Free Kit
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I went through a Lego kick last year, and their current Creator series is a bit of a mix between the old Technic and the model sets. Not nearly as many moving parts as old Technic (so sad...), but the primary models are definitely quality constructs good for building and leaving on display. But for the most part, they're all built out of a large set of stock pieces with boundless opportunity.
I'm definitely going to keep collecting them, and save them for when I have a kid.
The problem with a politician changing his mind, especially a relatively inexperienced politician, is that few people will put the effort into understanding his underlying value system enough to understand what he truly believes in.
A community that produces Zero CO2 by definition cannot contain any people, or other animals that inhale oxygen and exhale CO2.
bzzzt. All it means is that the community, as a closed system, consumes as much CO2 as it produces. No reason that CO2 can't be transferred between different parts of the community.
You should probably ignore that picture. If I was expected to "look busy" 100% of the time at my job, I would tell my manager to f**k off; especially if I worked a physically strenuous job like construction.
What about using recognition software that automatically pixelizes human and possibly put symbols or replacement image
Because it's currently impossible—the technology does not exist. Street signs look a lot like standing people (false positives), faces are only well-recognized when they're frontal (false negatives), and occlusion of any body part can completely fool any image detection technology.
There will never be 100% correct people-detection. Even if people are used as the detectors.
You're being a huge ass (even though technically, that's well within your rights). Do you really think that people in the US have no expectation of privacy? Go out onto the street of any city and just start staring at people. See how many dirty looks you get for doing it. Everyone's got a little privacy bubble, and there's nothing "stupid" or "superstitious" about it.
But there's a few critical differences between something like the GPLv2-to-GPLv3 and a changing EULA:
The GPL is not an end-user license, and has no impact on a non-developer. EULAs affect end-users, and not developers. Different target audiences.
Many projects are licensed as "GPLv2 or later". Basically, that means some GPLv4 version may come out that does ridiculous things like demanding the blood of firstborn children. This sort of change is ridiculous, but the license-as-written for said projects allows it. I've never understood why the GPL has such a gaping loophole, and yet people seem to just accept it, hoping that the FSF (or whoever "controls" future versions of the GPL) will play nice.
I believe the GP is referring to another company developing extra features for in-house use, then distributing the app in-house. AFAIK the GPL licensing requires the company's developers to provide the source modifications to the company's users, but the company as a whole can keep those modifications private.
You silly goose, HTTP 2xx responses are reserved for successful cases! You're looking for 401 Not Found or 410 Gone. Or more likely, errno=ECONNREFUSED at the socket level:)
Schindler's latest series of long-term experiments shows that nitrogen removal completely fails to control blue-green algae blooms. He proved this by manipulating nitrogen and phosphorus levels on Lake 227 for 37 years. Nitrogen control, he found, only encouraged algae blooms.
It took that much research to determine it? Man, there's gotta be thousands of individuals who have all seen this happen in their own homes. I have a freshwater planted tank. Fish waste produces large amounts of phosphorus and ammonia (which converts to nitrite, then nitrate). Infrequent water changes lead to algae blooms because the plants use all of the nitrogen up, and can't compete with algae for the phosphorus. In fact, most high-growth aquariums require nitrogen supplements.
...a button that accidentally pauses the music if you have the player in your pocket... a stupid menu that takes 4 clicks to play music, but 2 to change contrast...
Exactly. Let me rephrase that into a few measurable guidelines:
calculate the number/cost of actions required per interaction. Given a predicted or measured set of interaction probabilities, minimize the expected cost per interaction.
identify "drop-dead" interactions and make them impossible to execute accidentally (put a cover on kill switches, require extended button presses for power-down, replace hard pause by a fade-out that is canceled by unpressing the button,...)
There's a large base of experience to follow when creating user interfaces; I believe the entire field of Industrial Design is based around this. Problem is, electronics devices and software offer such unlimited possibilities that most people simply can't handle the choices effectively, or aren't aware of the prevailing experience.
Cingular was running a "Less dropped calls" campaign at the time... if you remember, the commercials where a phone conversation would end extremely awkwardly (and somewhat humorously) due to a dropped call. I'm pretty sure as soon as they switched to AT&T, they changed the campaign slogan to the meaningless "more bars in more places".
While I can sympathize with introversion, I do want to point out that human beings are typically very social creatures. Thus, while most of the examples you mentioned were based on (absurdly) ignoring physical limitations, dealing with introversion is a psychological issue that is beneficial to address due to the other benefits it brings (specifically mates and allies). No one is telling the OP to get a career in sales, they're just suggesting that an introverted personality shouldn't cut someone off from existing in a public space.
I shudder when people refer to "these days" or "these times". Are we somehow special? Is there something unique about the current economic condition that makes food so precious?
Oh wait, it's just a bit more expensive. Because yeah, sometimes that happens in a non-command economy. Woe to us and our hard times, different from the hard times of our predecessors.
Just be careful to ALWAYS alert the bus driver when you're handling your bike, and ALWAYS maintain eye contact while doing so. There was a case in the last year somewhere in Illinois where the bus driver didn't pay attention, and ended up running over and dragging a cyclist who was getting his bike from the rack on the front of the bus.
One man's garbage is apparently another man's paycheck. Some people's jobs are based around writing unsafe native code (be it C, C++, or assembler), because nothing else is fast enough.
Gah, I know it's flaimbait but I can't resist. As has already been pointed out, C and C++ both do know the size of arrays. However, unlike Java, the C and C++ idiom of decaying arrays to pointers causes that information to be lost in the callee. It is intentional behavior, because it is expected that the user (programmer) manages array sizes correctly.
The cost is that programmers who don't know exactly what they're doing run into these problems. The benefit is that the program runs as fast as possible on the target hardware. If that benefit isn't worth the cost, get out of the way, but don't bitch that the language doesn't coddle you. It's not supposed to.
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I went through a Lego kick last year, and their current Creator series is a bit of a mix between the old Technic and the model sets. Not nearly as many moving parts as old Technic (so sad...), but the primary models are definitely quality constructs good for building and leaving on display. But for the most part, they're all built out of a large set of stock pieces with boundless opportunity.
I'm definitely going to keep collecting them, and save them for when I have a kid.
Fixed that for you.
I'm wary of people who close their brains.
A design that does not account for obvious implementation errors is a flawed design. Way to pass the buck.
You mean like the UTF-8 \'-escaping vulnerability?. That one was a pretty big deal for anyone with an international database, since
The best part is that you don't even have to write crap code to get hit by that... "Moderately shady" is bad enough to be vulnerable.
bzzzt. All it means is that the community, as a closed system, consumes as much CO2 as it produces. No reason that CO2 can't be transferred between different parts of the community.
Welcome to the party. Were you stuck in traffic for the last 5 years?
You should probably ignore that picture. If I was expected to "look busy" 100% of the time at my job, I would tell my manager to f**k off; especially if I worked a physically strenuous job like construction.
Because it's currently impossible—the technology does not exist. Street signs look a lot like standing people (false positives), faces are only well-recognized when they're frontal (false negatives), and occlusion of any body part can completely fool any image detection technology.
There will never be 100% correct people-detection. Even if people are used as the detectors.
You're being a huge ass (even though technically, that's well within your rights). Do you really think that people in the US have no expectation of privacy? Go out onto the street of any city and just start staring at people. See how many dirty looks you get for doing it. Everyone's got a little privacy bubble, and there's nothing "stupid" or "superstitious" about it.
I believe the GP is referring to another company developing extra features for in-house use, then distributing the app in-house. AFAIK the GPL licensing requires the company's developers to provide the source modifications to the company's users, but the company as a whole can keep those modifications private.
You silly goose, HTTP 2xx responses are reserved for successful cases! You're looking for 401 Not Found or 410 Gone. Or more likely, errno=ECONNREFUSED at the socket level :)
I'm -1 on Good Intentions—poor traction on the winter.
It took that much research to determine it? Man, there's gotta be thousands of individuals who have all seen this happen in their own homes. I have a freshwater planted tank. Fish waste produces large amounts of phosphorus and ammonia (which converts to nitrite, then nitrate). Infrequent water changes lead to algae blooms because the plants use all of the nitrogen up, and can't compete with algae for the phosphorus. In fact, most high-growth aquariums require nitrogen supplements.
No it isn't.
Not really, you just have to be very specific.
Exactly. Let me rephrase that into a few measurable guidelines:
There's a large base of experience to follow when creating user interfaces; I believe the entire field of Industrial Design is based around this. Problem is, electronics devices and software offer such unlimited possibilities that most people simply can't handle the choices effectively, or aren't aware of the prevailing experience.
Cingular was running a "Less dropped calls" campaign at the time... if you remember, the commercials where a phone conversation would end extremely awkwardly (and somewhat humorously) due to a dropped call. I'm pretty sure as soon as they switched to AT&T, they changed the campaign slogan to the meaningless "more bars in more places".
Yeah, I realized you were joking about it... I just found it ironic that you were more correct than you knew.
While I can sympathize with introversion, I do want to point out that human beings are typically very social creatures. Thus, while most of the examples you mentioned were based on (absurdly) ignoring physical limitations, dealing with introversion is a psychological issue that is beneficial to address due to the other benefits it brings (specifically mates and allies). No one is telling the OP to get a career in sales, they're just suggesting that an introverted personality shouldn't cut someone off from existing in a public space.
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I shudder when people refer to "these days" or "these times". Are we somehow special? Is there something unique about the current economic condition that makes food so precious?
Oh wait, it's just a bit more expensive. Because yeah, sometimes that happens in a non-command economy. Woe to us and our hard times, different from the hard times of our predecessors.
Just be careful to ALWAYS alert the bus driver when you're handling your bike, and ALWAYS maintain eye contact while doing so. There was a case in the last year somewhere in Illinois where the bus driver didn't pay attention, and ended up running over and dragging a cyclist who was getting his bike from the rack on the front of the bus.
One man's garbage is apparently another man's paycheck. Some people's jobs are based around writing unsafe native code (be it C, C++, or assembler), because nothing else is fast enough.
Gah, I know it's flaimbait but I can't resist. As has already been pointed out, C and C++ both do know the size of arrays. However, unlike Java, the C and C++ idiom of decaying arrays to pointers causes that information to be lost in the callee. It is intentional behavior, because it is expected that the user (programmer) manages array sizes correctly.
The cost is that programmers who don't know exactly what they're doing run into these problems. The benefit is that the program runs as fast as possible on the target hardware. If that benefit isn't worth the cost, get out of the way, but don't bitch that the language doesn't coddle you. It's not supposed to.