Ashby is not a champion of free speech in Australia. He publicly made false allegations with the intent of destroying Slipper's career. Seems like a straightforward case of defamation. I'm ok with having a law to protect against this sort of thing.
Back on topic - the internet trolling stuff is ridiculous! Farah needs to harden the fuck up. I can't believe a footballer would be such a princess. I doubt there will be any anti-troll laws either. It's just talk to try and get political advantage at this point (doubtful whether the NSW or federal governments are succeeding).
On a flight I was on recently I heard the following announcement as we were approaching the runway to land: "There is interference in the cockpit. Could everyone switch off their electronic devices immediately". This was only a minute before we touched down and they had already made the standard announcement & checks several minutes earlier.
As the sibling poster mentions that article you link from Boeing contains several reliable reports of PEDs causing interference in actual flights. Boeing has not been able to reliably reproduce the issue in their labs.
I thought Android phones sold because they were roughly as good as the iPhone but you're not paying hundreds of dollars extra for the shiny white logo on the back.
To prove the GP wrong, all the parent post had to do was provide one specific case where troops were put at risk due to leaked documents. Because the parent waffled in generalities, he doesn't have that one counter-example that would have proved his point.
Coffee is popular in warm climates too. There's a big cafe culture in Australia. It's a popular drink all around the Mediterranean sea. The arabs invented the drink.
I think we do need gender specific recruitment. The argument goes a little something like this: 1. 50% of the population is female. 2. 50% of good scientists should also be female (assuming an even distribution). 3. Much less than 50% of current scientists are female. Therefore there are women who would be good scientists that are not choosing to do science.
Those rounded corners rulings have eventually been overturned pretty much everywhere. The only problem for Apple's competitors in those cases is that until the ruling is overturned they're losing sales to Apple.
Oh great, I can decide what to hear and don't have to manage my own collection!
(Some time in the future)
Oh wait, there was this song I particularly liked. Where has it gone? Maybe I should have my own collection again.
Damn, the RIAA no longer allows me to own!
That time is now. I recently switched my spotify account's location from the USA to Australia and some albums have disappeared.
I think streaming is great, but I don't see it as a replacement for a CD collection. It supplements it and lets you check out some new artists.
The lower case t for the Christian cross is because the Romans hung a sign above his head saying 'king of the Jews'. Clearly Jesus couldn't have been crucified on a capital T shaped cross if there's a sign above his head.
The debate isn't around understanding a tax system or not. The question is the following: "Is the tax system fair when a corporation can pay as little as $74000 tax on local sales of $1,000,000,000?"
I don't think people handled the transition to motor vehicles well 100+ years ago. There is always a subset of humanity that will complain about new technology.
An example of not handling the new cars well is this bit of trivia - the first drivers licence belonged to Herr Benz for his first motorwagen. He had written to the local duke asking for a permit to operate the vehicle because he was worried about people being offended by the sound and smoke from the thing.
I agree that learning C teaches (should that be forces?) you to be a better programmer, but disagree about just get any book. If you're going to get a C book, get the original and the best "The C programming language" by K&R.
I think the real scum are the readers of tabloids and gossip magazines. If there wasn't a demand for compromising photos of celebrities, the paparazzi wouldn't exist. They're giving people what they want to see.
I'm pretty sure that your emails, BBMs, SMSs etc. all go through Echelon in the UK too. That's the whole point of there being more than one nation involved. e.g. the USA can spy on people in the UK then through intelligence sharing deals share that info with the UK agencies.
Instead of needing to find a job so you have adequate medical care, couldn't you have the government provide access to health care as a service for all?
The parent post isn't interesting, it's ignorant. The clock moves forward and backwards based on how likely the world is to blow everyone away with M.A.D. It's been closer to midnight e.g. during the Cuban missile crisis and much further from midnight e.g. the fall of the Soviet Union.
It sounds like the UI designer mentioned by the GP is just laying out buttons on a screen without reference to anything. He's designing a UI he likes.
Proper user centred design is about finding out how the actual users of your software work and designing a UI that meets their goals efficiently. Your touch-typist example is a good one. If you're designing software for secretaries then assuming they can touch-type and building a UI that takes advantage of that is probably the right approach.
Wanting the ability to customise all your settings is thinking like a programmer. Different classes of user want things to "just work".
TFA is about ebooks and the poor formatting of their text. eBooks are read by all kinds of people with varying levels of computer skills, not just programmers.
For example, I don't think it's unreasonable for Grandma to expect that when she wants to read a book on her Kindle it displays correctly. Lines, paragraphs, chapters flow just like they would on the page of a print book. She isn't going to want to stuff around for hours setting up a display profile or some nonsense.
The only requirement should be around accessibility - the size of the text can be changed without breaking the layout & flow.
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Ashby is not a champion of free speech in Australia. He publicly made false allegations with the intent of destroying Slipper's career. Seems like a straightforward case of defamation. I'm ok with having a law to protect against this sort of thing.
Back on topic - the internet trolling stuff is ridiculous! Farah needs to harden the fuck up. I can't believe a footballer would be such a princess. I doubt there will be any anti-troll laws either. It's just talk to try and get political advantage at this point (doubtful whether the NSW or federal governments are succeeding).
On a flight I was on recently I heard the following announcement as we were approaching the runway to land: "There is interference in the cockpit. Could everyone switch off their electronic devices immediately". This was only a minute before we touched down and they had already made the standard announcement & checks several minutes earlier.
As the sibling poster mentions that article you link from Boeing contains several reliable reports of PEDs causing interference in actual flights. Boeing has not been able to reliably reproduce the issue in their labs.
I thought Android phones sold because they were roughly as good as the iPhone but you're not paying hundreds of dollars extra for the shiny white logo on the back.
To prove the GP wrong, all the parent post had to do was provide one specific case where troops were put at risk due to leaked documents. Because the parent waffled in generalities, he doesn't have that one counter-example that would have proved his point.
Coffee is popular in warm climates too. There's a big cafe culture in Australia. It's a popular drink all around the Mediterranean sea. The arabs invented the drink.
I think we do need gender specific recruitment. The argument goes a little something like this:
1. 50% of the population is female.
2. 50% of good scientists should also be female (assuming an even distribution).
3. Much less than 50% of current scientists are female.
Therefore there are women who would be good scientists that are not choosing to do science.
Not a bug. The system is working as intended.
Those rounded corners rulings have eventually been overturned pretty much everywhere. The only problem for Apple's competitors in those cases is that until the ruling is overturned they're losing sales to Apple.
You didn't get the funny points because the timing was all wrong.
That time is now. I recently switched my spotify account's location from the USA to Australia and some albums have disappeared.
I think streaming is great, but I don't see it as a replacement for a CD collection. It supplements it and lets you check out some new artists.
Where are you getting 8% p.a. interest?
The lower case t for the Christian cross is because the Romans hung a sign above his head saying 'king of the Jews'. Clearly Jesus couldn't have been crucified on a capital T shaped cross if there's a sign above his head.
The debate isn't around understanding a tax system or not. The question is the following: "Is the tax system fair when a corporation can pay as little as $74000 tax on local sales of $1,000,000,000?"
I'm from Australia and I've never heard that.
Not that nonce is a word you hear much anyway, regardless of the meaning.
I don't think people handled the transition to motor vehicles well 100+ years ago. There is always a subset of humanity that will complain about new technology.
An example of not handling the new cars well is this bit of trivia - the first drivers licence belonged to Herr Benz for his first motorwagen. He had written to the local duke asking for a permit to operate the vehicle because he was worried about people being offended by the sound and smoke from the thing.
That username and post align perfectly.
I agree that learning C teaches (should that be forces?) you to be a better programmer, but disagree about just get any book. If you're going to get a C book, get the original and the best "The C programming language" by K&R.
I think the real scum are the readers of tabloids and gossip magazines. If there wasn't a demand for compromising photos of celebrities, the paparazzi wouldn't exist. They're giving people what they want to see.
In Australia the a nurse takes a blood test back at the cop shop if you blow over the limit. Problem solved.
I'm pretty sure that your emails, BBMs, SMSs etc. all go through Echelon in the UK too. That's the whole point of there being more than one nation involved. e.g. the USA can spy on people in the UK then through intelligence sharing deals share that info with the UK agencies.
Instead of needing to find a job so you have adequate medical care, couldn't you have the government provide access to health care as a service for all?
The parent post isn't interesting, it's ignorant. The clock moves forward and backwards based on how likely the world is to blow everyone away with M.A.D. It's been closer to midnight e.g. during the Cuban missile crisis and much further from midnight e.g. the fall of the Soviet Union.
I wish I had mod points for that post.
It sounds like the UI designer mentioned by the GP is just laying out buttons on a screen without reference to anything. He's designing a UI he likes.
Proper user centred design is about finding out how the actual users of your software work and designing a UI that meets their goals efficiently. Your touch-typist example is a good one. If you're designing software for secretaries then assuming they can touch-type and building a UI that takes advantage of that is probably the right approach.
Wanting the ability to customise all your settings is thinking like a programmer. Different classes of user want things to "just work".
TFA is about ebooks and the poor formatting of their text. eBooks are read by all kinds of people with varying levels of computer skills, not just programmers.
For example, I don't think it's unreasonable for Grandma to expect that when she wants to read a book on her Kindle it displays correctly. Lines, paragraphs, chapters flow just like they would on the page of a print book. She isn't going to want to stuff around for hours setting up a display profile or some nonsense.
The only requirement should be around accessibility - the size of the text can be changed without breaking the layout & flow.