as I was trying to figure out how to actually see the video and clicking on the link like an idiot just to get back to the same place, I figured out that a large blank space below the text is where the video is supposed to be. Since it seems it is slashdotted I cannot see it. It would be better if you could just give the link in the text so I can save it and look later and/or at least say that the video is below.
I am having the same experience. Has slashdot slashdotted itself by hosting a video?
It looks to me like it's intended as a reductio ad absurdum of the concept of free will: i.e. assume free will exists, then show that ridiculous things follow.
I think you're right, but there is a problem. The argument seems to go like this:
1. Watching event A in humans proves free will in humans.
2. Watching an event similar to A in electrons proves free will in electrons.
3: Believing that (2) is true is absurd.
4: Therefore humans have no free will. (Reductio)
The problem, obviously, is in (4), which should be "Therefore (1) is false." Premise (1) isn't believable anyway, nor does it need to be true for free will to exist. So that kind of ruins the whole reductio ad absurdum.
Sorry, how can you possibly link an aborted fetus to pornography?
The definition of pornography is broader than you would think--it is not limited to sexual images. Anything that is sensational or obscene and has little or no artistic merit is pornographic. Obviously it's a very subjective definition, so you can argue that just about anything is pornographic or not pornographic.
Have you considered using a mouse that doesn't suck?
It's not the mouse, I have the same problem on a dual boot machine--only in Windows. I have this problem on every Ubuntu computer I have, regardless of mouse, and none of the Windows computers, regardless of mouse.
Actually, Google isn't as simple as you think.
Example: view one of the images (on the results page, not the homepage). The Google logo or one of the arrows or something. They are all this same image: http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo4.png
How do you think they get all those different images while only loading one image? The simplicity is simple, but there is tons of really complicated stuff going on on the Google front end.
Any given employee will spend 30% of the time not doing serious work anyway, so why not ease the guilt for this and replace it with something useful? Allow employees to use 10% of their time to do cool things for the company. It seems to work for google, even if they don't usually spend as much time as they're theoretically allowed to.
A 25 watt incandescent bulb is about 10 times brighter.
I had a similar experience with a 15,000 lux wake-up light. Too bright to look at yet too dim to read by.
It's like saying a laser is equivalent to a 4,000 watt light bulb. That may be true--if the beam is pointed directly at your eye--but it's completely useless for lighting up a room.
The Mojave experiment confirmed that users can be tricked into thinking Vista is good if you tell them it's the shiny new next generation OS.
Why do you think it's called Windows 7... the emphasis is "this is the *next* OS! It's different from Vista! Really!"
I highly doubt that it is only "Ubuntu users" that wrote in emails to the news station and left comments. It seems the news agency is assuming this fact as a way of explaining how so many people could disagree with them. "Surely, they must all be part of the same group and offended for the same reason. It can't be because we're objectively bad reporters.!"
"I found that a very small portion of the Ubuntu community is truly heartless losers.... You perpetuate the stereotype of computer dorks who sit in their dark rooms staring at the little box with lights furiously typing their hatred for the rest of humanity. Your e-mails made all of us laugh hysterically all day long!... I want each of you to remember why you got picked on in grade school and high school and feel the need to act this way as adultsâ¦if you even are adults. PS: let the flame war on me begin."
I would love to have one of these in my backyard. I wouldn't feel threatened or unsafe in any way, nor would I be worried about it. I would appreciate the coolness factor though.
Your response is the point exactly. The concept of Multiple input Devices is something that has the potential to really change and improve the way people use computers in a completely revolutionary way.
But people without much imagination can't think any immediate way to use it that makes sense with the way they currently use the computer, and they're unwilling to change the way they use the computer, so the innovation never takes off.
And the people making that argument always fail to include the same thing: a single idea on what different/new thing Linux developers are supposed to include.
The whole thing hasn't shown itself to be particularly relevant anyhow. We've hit a bit of a dead-end. No one is coming up with any UI that doesn't amount to spacial metaphors and "windows" being navigated by a keyboard and mouse.
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as I was trying to figure out how to actually see the video and clicking on the link like an idiot just to get back to the same place, I figured out that a large blank space below the text is where the video is supposed to be. Since it seems it is slashdotted I cannot see it. It would be better if you could just give the link in the text so I can save it and look later and/or at least say that the video is below.
I am having the same experience. Has slashdot slashdotted itself by hosting a video?
It looks to me like it's intended as a reductio ad absurdum of the concept of free will: i.e. assume free will exists, then show that ridiculous things follow.
I think you're right, but there is a problem. The argument seems to go like this:
1. Watching event A in humans proves free will in humans.
2. Watching an event similar to A in electrons proves free will in electrons.
3: Believing that (2) is true is absurd.
4: Therefore humans have no free will. (Reductio)
The problem, obviously, is in (4), which should be "Therefore (1) is false." Premise (1) isn't believable anyway, nor does it need to be true for free will to exist. So that kind of ruins the whole reductio ad absurdum.
How could human experiments prove free will? Really. Free will seems like one of those things that you can't prove.
Sorry, how can you possibly link an aborted fetus to pornography?
The definition of pornography is broader than you would think--it is not limited to sexual images. Anything that is sensational or obscene and has little or no artistic merit is pornographic. Obviously it's a very subjective definition, so you can argue that just about anything is pornographic or not pornographic.
Have you not considered getting a nice Logitech mouse or something? The latest "MX Revolution" mice are very pleasant to use, and work fine in OS X...
This is a software problem--tons of people are affected. It's not the mouse either. BTW, I have the MX Revolution and I experience this in Linux too.
Have you considered using a mouse that doesn't suck?
It's not the mouse, I have the same problem on a dual boot machine--only in Windows. I have this problem on every Ubuntu computer I have, regardless of mouse, and none of the Windows computers, regardless of mouse.
For starters, no !DOCTYPE.
It does have a doctype: {!doctype html}
It may look unfamiliar to you because that's the HTML 5 doctype.
Actually, Google isn't as simple as you think. Example: view one of the images (on the results page, not the homepage). The Google logo or one of the arrows or something. They are all this same image: http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo4.png How do you think they get all those different images while only loading one image? The simplicity is simple, but there is tons of really complicated stuff going on on the Google front end.
http://acid3.acidtests.org/
Any given employee will spend 30% of the time not doing serious work anyway, so why not ease the guilt for this and replace it with something useful? Allow employees to use 10% of their time to do cool things for the company. It seems to work for google, even if they don't usually spend as much time as they're theoretically allowed to.
Well when the "Land of the Free" finally stops being free, you won't be able to argue that you didn't see it coming.
Because it will be illegal?
I haven't seen anything that says if this has been changed with the updated device.
It's USB recharge, with a clever adapter so you can use an outlet as well: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NIZB5M/ref=kinw_dp_shvlKindleOther_
I have this theory that if I eat nothing but sugar, I won't get diabetes.
Actually, diabetes is caused by sleeping on your back.
A 25 watt incandescent bulb is about 10 times brighter.
I had a similar experience with a 15,000 lux wake-up light. Too bright to look at yet too dim to read by. It's like saying a laser is equivalent to a 4,000 watt light bulb. That may be true--if the beam is pointed directly at your eye--but it's completely useless for lighting up a room.
The Mojave experiment confirmed that users can be tricked into thinking Vista is good if you tell them it's the shiny new next generation OS. Why do you think it's called Windows 7... the emphasis is "this is the *next* OS! It's different from Vista! Really!"
I highly doubt that it is only "Ubuntu users" that wrote in emails to the news station and left comments. It seems the news agency is assuming this fact as a way of explaining how so many people could disagree with them. "Surely, they must all be part of the same group and offended for the same reason. It can't be because we're objectively bad reporters.!"
"I found that a very small portion of the Ubuntu community is truly heartless losers. ... You perpetuate the stereotype of computer dorks who sit in their dark rooms staring at the little box with lights furiously typing their hatred for the rest of humanity. Your e-mails made all of us laugh hysterically all day long! ... I want each of you to remember why you got picked on in grade school and high school and feel the need to act this way as adultsâ¦if you even are adults. PS: let the flame war on me begin."
At home anyway. At work I run Windows.
>"This is a gift from the Iraqis; this is the farewell kiss, you dog!" --Muntader al-Zaidi
You do know he missed, right?
I would love to have one of these in my backyard. I wouldn't feel threatened or unsafe in any way, nor would I be worried about it. I would appreciate the coolness factor though.
Your response is the point exactly. The concept of Multiple input Devices is something that has the potential to really change and improve the way people use computers in a completely revolutionary way.
But people without much imagination can't think any immediate way to use it that makes sense with the way they currently use the computer, and they're unwilling to change the way they use the computer, so the innovation never takes off.
And the people making that argument always fail to include the same thing: a single idea on what different/new thing Linux developers are supposed to include.
The whole thing hasn't shown itself to be particularly relevant anyhow. We've hit a bit of a dead-end. No one is coming up with any UI that doesn't amount to spacial metaphors and "windows" being navigated by a keyboard and mouse.
Heard of MPX?
Chairs? Why? Am I missing something?
better browsers = better web experience = more people using the internet more = google wins
Obviously a fake. If it were a real Nigerian mail fraud letter, it would have more spelling errors and confusing punctuation.