Pardon my naivety, but I would like to better understand how exactly the US has fallen behind.
Well, because of this: http://www.tispa.org/node/14 - the money you've been paying them has not gone into improving the network. You've got ISPs fighting any municipal initiatives with tooth and nail. You have a lack of choice between ISPs; it's either DSL or cable from 2 brands. You've fallen behind with healthy competition and innovation.
someone pointed out to him that if people are trying to steal your stuff, that means they want your stuff
More importantly: if people want to distribute your stuff without your permission, they'll do so, and if one of 'm has done it, the war is already lost. Lots of industrious pirates who'll gladly scan and clean up whatever you want - no eBook needed. Sometimes they'll even do a better job than the official ones.
eBooks make it easier, but are absolutely not necessary.
For zero and negative numbers, I always had to ask the poor fellow who lost parts of his hand in a bandsaw accident. I couldn't bring him to school either:(.
Imagine a virtual teacher with infinite patience for those with learning disabilities. you could use this tech to tailor a learning plan for the individual without the incredibly high cost of private tutors. Done right I could see this really helping kids.
And it'd be an awful shock for those kids if they went from their safe school environment back to the real world where people don't have infinite patience.
It's typical for engineers: some people say the glass of water is half full, others say it's half empty - and engineers call it twice as big as it should've been.
osCommerce hasn't been updated in ages, has no concept of separating presentation and content, and the code looks and smells awfully. I'd rather deal with 4 bloated Magento installs than 1 osCommerce, though ideally I'd avoid both.
Magento's installation "console" thingy is a work of art, and by work of art I mean "stupid flashy idea that should never have been implemented, ever". Instead of making me wait and instead of having things just hang with no feedback whatsoever, tell me where to copy the bloody files and give me good error messages instead.
Yes. The result however, of this DIY script is one script of 5 kb that costs much more work to maintain and does just one thing - collapsing and expanding. 5 of those scripts for 5 operations (let's assume image galleries, a lightbox, some AJAX, form validation and a floating div for a form) would already add up to the size of Mootools*; and they'd only be good for just that one thing.
Writing this in Mootools would take a total of 6 lines or so; but more importantly - the Mootools framework is useful for other things, too. For one thing, it makes your JS far more readable.
Joomla or Drupal are already bloated by themselves because the components need to be wrapped in several layers for customizability; having 2 or 3 JS frameworks fight with eachother is just icing on the cake.
* (replace Mootools with your framework of choice)
Simulating exploding hydrogen bombs, weather simulation, brute-force cracking, etc. Basically any distributed project you can think of (see BOINC) can also be done with a supercomputer.
Well, what is it about weather simulation that requires so much work?
It's a scientific model with a boatload of variables and dependencies. Ask these guys.
That's mostly because of taxes, not because it's for some noble green goal. In a way it's somewhat beneficial since some of that money flows back to improving or creating infrastructure where needed and people take mileage into account more than sheer size and weight, but the number of BMW X5s and other steel "compensation" fortresses I see on a daily basis is still pretty depressing, and it's not clear that the money for gas goes towards that goal.
On the other hand, it also means electric vehicles aren't being developed as fast as they could've been; because of the better average mileage, there's less need to upgrade.
The Netherlands, where I live, would be an ideal test bed for "commuter" vehicles; light-weight 2 person cars with great styling and streamlining. All small cars with good mileage look like pugs that smacked into a wall, all streamlined cars guzzle, and people dislike public transportation but drag the weight of the extra seats in the back with 'm. It's too bad the Volkswagen 1L isn't on the market yet; while not looking like a sports car, its mileage alone would probably already win a lot of hearts and minds.
There is zero logical reason for humans to actively "protect" the environment.
There is also zero logical reason for humans to shit where they eat. Yet that's exactly what we're doing here.
Building a city is not fundamentally altering the environment any more than a a bear taking a shit in the woods.
Correct. However, the people in the city need water and food - try cutting of NYC's water supply for a week and you'll need to be Snake Plissken if you want to go in there and return. You'll have to create farmland, and for water, you have to divert a river or pump an aquifer dry. So, that one city impacts a way bigger swath of land and resources than you propose. Of course, you knew this already and I'm not telling you anything new, but it'd have helped your argument if you included this.
That said, system sliders and buttons are indeed bad - but mostly because they waste a lot of space, and aren't meant to be crammed on the screen by the dozen.
Could you give me an example of software that has all that where an OK button would do? No of course not. So let's leave the straw men out of it.
Not all, but Bryce 3D and pretty much all Asus control panels to overclock god knows what are pretty bad offenders.
And that means using an artist to produce good, accurate, artwork to represent those elements, and animation to better represent the interaction. Making do with system supplied sliders and buttons will result in a worse app.
Not so - and let's take my favorite example : (software) synthesizers!
The LAST thing you need is accurate artwork. What works in real life does not work well on the screen and vice versa. Consider the Moog Minimoog; it's got chunky black knobs where the position is denoted by a single white dot. The knob has a brushed aluminum (I think) cover. Looks gorgeous, feels gorgeous - but you're not going to see anything of that position indicator on a low DPI screen. The reason it works in real life is that the position always is what it shows - it's got no memory. In software, you've got presets and you can't grab anything, and your controller's knobs do not move with the ones on screen. (Sliders may, but that's it).
If you stylize the knob as a pie chart of sorts (see Ableton Live, FAW Circle) it becomes much, much more clear. If you adjust the font size compared to its real-world version, you again get better usability. Arturia's software (CS80v in particular) is one of the worst offenders in that regard, since it wastes away space on control elements, doesn't use contrast and colors correctly, but instead desperately tries to cram a real world metaphor in a place that doesn't have use for it.
TIFF is an image, and a big one at that. Good luck searching through the text - you'd have to store the plaintext anyway for searching, and it'd be loaded with references to the location on the image, and zooming would be lossy.
HTML + MathML + SVG for graphs/diagrams and PNG for the rest should be able to do the job.
It works just great as a DAW controller. You project all kinds of knobs and sliders on the screen and use TouchOSC or something to control your gear or draw your automation with. Surely a lot more useful than a dedicated controller which does nothing else at all besides controlling, and which has a fixed surface. Ever heard of the Jazzmutant Lemur? Like that - only cheaper.
Perhaps by asking him to contribute his share to society, because the most likely way he got to be in that position was because he could draw on a pool of sufficiently educated workers, a factory that was up to code, safe machinery, and a decent infrastructure.
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Well, because of this: http://www.tispa.org/node/14 - the money you've been paying them has not gone into improving the network. You've got ISPs fighting any municipal initiatives with tooth and nail. You have a lack of choice between ISPs; it's either DSL or cable from 2 brands. You've fallen behind with healthy competition and innovation.
More importantly: if people want to distribute your stuff without your permission, they'll do so, and if one of 'm has done it, the war is already lost. Lots of industrious pirates who'll gladly scan and clean up whatever you want - no eBook needed. Sometimes they'll even do a better job than the official ones.
eBooks make it easier, but are absolutely not necessary.
Freezing is not the problem, thawing is. Also, do these cryoprotectants work on cell level so the walls aren't punctured by ice crystals?
Clarity (or simplicity) leaves too much room for loopholes that are not in the corporation's favor.
For zero and negative numbers, I always had to ask the poor fellow who lost parts of his hand in a bandsaw accident. I couldn't bring him to school either :(.
And it'd be an awful shock for those kids if they went from their safe school environment back to the real world where people don't have infinite patience.
Because Amazon does its stinking best to prohibit me from buying music in mp3 format.
Perhaps you meant "keming"?
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A. Physicist
It's typical for engineers: some people say the glass of water is half full, others say it's half empty - and engineers call it twice as big as it should've been.
osCommerce hasn't been updated in ages, has no concept of separating presentation and content, and the code looks and smells awfully. I'd rather deal with 4 bloated Magento installs than 1 osCommerce, though ideally I'd avoid both.
Magento's installation "console" thingy is a work of art, and by work of art I mean "stupid flashy idea that should never have been implemented, ever". Instead of making me wait and instead of having things just hang with no feedback whatsoever, tell me where to copy the bloody files and give me good error messages instead.
Yes. The result however, of this DIY script is one script of 5 kb that costs much more work to maintain and does just one thing - collapsing and expanding. 5 of those scripts for 5 operations (let's assume image galleries, a lightbox, some AJAX, form validation and a floating div for a form) would already add up to the size of Mootools*; and they'd only be good for just that one thing.
Writing this in Mootools would take a total of 6 lines or so; but more importantly - the Mootools framework is useful for other things, too. For one thing, it makes your JS far more readable.
Joomla or Drupal are already bloated by themselves because the components need to be wrapped in several layers for customizability; having 2 or 3 JS frameworks fight with eachother is just icing on the cake.
* (replace Mootools with your framework of choice)
Simulating exploding hydrogen bombs, weather simulation, brute-force cracking, etc. Basically any distributed project you can think of (see BOINC) can also be done with a supercomputer.
It's a scientific model with a boatload of variables and dependencies. Ask these guys.
That's mostly because of taxes, not because it's for some noble green goal. In a way it's somewhat beneficial since some of that money flows back to improving or creating infrastructure where needed and people take mileage into account more than sheer size and weight, but the number of BMW X5s and other steel "compensation" fortresses I see on a daily basis is still pretty depressing, and it's not clear that the money for gas goes towards that goal.
On the other hand, it also means electric vehicles aren't being developed as fast as they could've been; because of the better average mileage, there's less need to upgrade.
The Netherlands, where I live, would be an ideal test bed for "commuter" vehicles; light-weight 2 person cars with great styling and streamlining. All small cars with good mileage look like pugs that smacked into a wall, all streamlined cars guzzle, and people dislike public transportation but drag the weight of the extra seats in the back with 'm. It's too bad the Volkswagen 1L isn't on the market yet; while not looking like a sports car, its mileage alone would probably already win a lot of hearts and minds.
There is also zero logical reason for humans to shit where they eat. Yet that's exactly what we're doing here.
Correct. However, the people in the city need water and food - try cutting of NYC's water supply for a week and you'll need to be Snake Plissken if you want to go in there and return. You'll have to create farmland, and for water, you have to divert a river or pump an aquifer dry. So, that one city impacts a way bigger swath of land and resources than you propose. Of course, you knew this already and I'm not telling you anything new, but it'd have helped your argument if you included this.
That said, system sliders and buttons are indeed bad - but mostly because they waste a lot of space, and aren't meant to be crammed on the screen by the dozen.
Not all, but Bryce 3D and pretty much all Asus control panels to overclock god knows what are pretty bad offenders.
Not so - and let's take my favorite example : (software) synthesizers!
The LAST thing you need is accurate artwork. What works in real life does not work well on the screen and vice versa. Consider the Moog Minimoog; it's got chunky black knobs where the position is denoted by a single white dot. The knob has a brushed aluminum (I think) cover. Looks gorgeous, feels gorgeous - but you're not going to see anything of that position indicator on a low DPI screen. The reason it works in real life is that the position always is what it shows - it's got no memory. In software, you've got presets and you can't grab anything, and your controller's knobs do not move with the ones on screen. (Sliders may, but that's it).
If you stylize the knob as a pie chart of sorts (see Ableton Live, FAW Circle) it becomes much, much more clear. If you adjust the font size compared to its real-world version, you again get better usability. Arturia's software (CS80v in particular) is one of the worst offenders in that regard, since it wastes away space on control elements, doesn't use contrast and colors correctly, but instead desperately tries to cram a real world metaphor in a place that doesn't have use for it.
TIFF is an image, and a big one at that. Good luck searching through the text - you'd have to store the plaintext anyway for searching, and it'd be loaded with references to the location on the image, and zooming would be lossy.
HTML + MathML + SVG for graphs/diagrams and PNG for the rest should be able to do the job.
It works just great as a DAW controller. You project all kinds of knobs and sliders on the screen and use TouchOSC or something to control your gear or draw your automation with. Surely a lot more useful than a dedicated controller which does nothing else at all besides controlling, and which has a fixed surface. Ever heard of the Jazzmutant Lemur? Like that - only cheaper.
Perhaps by asking him to contribute his share to society, because the most likely way he got to be in that position was because he could draw on a pool of sufficiently educated workers, a factory that was up to code, safe machinery, and a decent infrastructure.
Coding in this language requires serious clojones?
That's a bitchun Whuffie score you have there, son.
Does Excel still have the WTF-like window management? (2 items show on the taskbar, 1 main window)
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