While it's great that all this research into potential future interfaces is being done, a lot of them are terribly impractical. I just wish we could get the simple things right with our present day interfaces.
How about a jog wheel / thumb wheel that actually allowed different speeds of movement (i.e. true analog) instead of being just a disguised rocker switch? How about a mouse wheel that didn't force me to move slowly through documents a line at a time, but instead had the same capability for fast and slow movement as the mouse sensor itself?
These are things that would actually be useful now, and are simple to implement with current technology. Perhaps companies could get these right today, in addition to investing in all this blue sky research.
think of him sitting in that big chair at the bottom of the world with his cat for company, watching rows of television screens bringing him images of the decay of civilization...
because of the format there is very little real information on a page (I especially remember the one page with 4 or 5 panels with only the words "Ahhhhhhh" or similar
I agree. I remember seeing a picture once by some guy called Da Vinci. It was quite a large canvas, but all it had on it was a picture of a woman smiling slightly. No words, no real information at all. Useless.
From what I read Zach Snyder lived with a copy under his arm and so for once, mostly, the novelist and artist's vision are going to be implemented as they intended.
Alan Moore will be deeply relieved to hear that. I expect once the news reaches him he'll repent and allow his name to appear on the credits after all.
As someone who rarely watches cop shows, and watches little TV in general, I can totally recommend The Wire. It's finished now, but there's sixty episodes across five seasons. I'm about half way through, and it's compulsive viewing - grittier than the average police drama, with far more believable characters.
In actual fact, your drummer is following the cues given by your delay effect and your playing, ensuring that everything stays in time. This is very skillful in itself, but it's not the same as him somehow staying on an exact tempo via some kind of "internal metronome" throughout the song. That's not humanly possible.
One way to prove this would be to get him to begin playing along to a recording which you know is played to a precise steady tempo, then mute the playback while he continues. Unmute the sound towards the end of the song and he should still be exactly in time with the song, if what you describe is true. Not even the best drummer in the world will maintain a tempo accurately enough for this to happen. Don't forget, he only has to drift out by a tenth of a second over the course of three or four minutes for his beat to be completely out.
Please don't think I'm belittling his skills though, he sounds like a great musician. It's just that what you described isn't actually possible.
The trick is that since the terrorist will say no, they can be deported for lying on an immigration form, which has much less of a legal burden than proving that they actually are terrorists.
Correct me if I'm missing something here, but surely you can't prove they've lied on the immigration form until you've proved that they're a terrorist, at which point... well, you've proven they're a terrorist, and the form becomes irrelevant.
I mentioned this once on reddit and someone called it a 'braindead' approach.
Ah well, if the Reddit guys don't like it, the idea must be fundamentally broken - there's no point us wasting time here on/. discussing it further.
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I'm an open-minded, relatively intelligent guy...
Yet you turned down a 20% pay increase because your prospective boss likes to have a laugh? Or was it that your taste in flags, spirits and actresses varied so wildly from his that your differences were irreconcilable? Sure, this guy doesn't sound like a great intellectual (or someone that I'd like to spend a lot of time with) but he'd be your employer, not your new best buddy.
More to the point perhaps, why did this guy let you add him on Facebook? People I know add only their friends, and to my understanding that's the whole idea. If I was to receive a friend invite from a random stranger, I would decline it without a second thought.
I agree - in fact, I'd go even further. If only there was some way to run an "executable file" natively on my machine that could handle these kind of development tasks.
It could perform the same job as these web-based IDEs, but potentially much quicker, and without requiring internet access. I don't know if such a thing would be feasible, perhaps it's a crazy idea, but I can dream.
I always find it odd when people lament how underpowered Atom-based netbooks are. Sure, they're not as beefy as a modern dual core desktop system, but short of video editing and 3D gaming they can still handle pretty much anything you can throw at them.
I use Visual Studio on my Acer Aspire One all the time. Code compiles a bit more slowly than on my desktop, but it's still perfectly usable. I love that machine, it's actually small enough to take places, and powerful enough to run everything I need.
I just asked my cat, who is not a lawyer, a few questions about it. Note that he is primarily what I like to refer to as a cute little bastard, so this is outside of his normal repertoire. Here are his answers (paraphrased):
Q: Do you know what an EULA is?
A: Miaow
Q: You know, those end user license agreements you have to accept when you buy or download certain software?
A: Miaow?
Q: If you built a device that would allow a cat to accept an EULA, would you be legally bound by the EULA?
A: Miaooowwww!
The problem for ARM: lacking support from Microsoft for Windows; the applications it runs for the PC have to do so under Linux.
Not a problem for everyone.
Indeed. That's why the article says "The problem for ARM", not "the problem for everyone".
Happy though you are running Linux, ARM themselves would love for the other 99% of the market to be able to run their OS of choice on an ARM processor.
You could argue that it would be nice if this could be achieved by moving people to Linux. ARM, however, just want people to buy their chips in large quantities, and don't particularly care why they're doing it.
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While it's great that all this research into potential future interfaces is being done, a lot of them are terribly impractical. I just wish we could get the simple things right with our present day interfaces.
How about a jog wheel / thumb wheel that actually allowed different speeds of movement (i.e. true analog) instead of being just a disguised rocker switch? How about a mouse wheel that didn't force me to move slowly through documents a line at a time, but instead had the same capability for fast and slow movement as the mouse sensor itself?
These are things that would actually be useful now, and are simple to implement with current technology. Perhaps companies could get these right today, in addition to investing in all this blue sky research.
think of him sitting in that big chair at the bottom of the world with his cat for company, watching rows of television screens bringing him images of the decay of civilization...
...an experience familiar to most /. readers.
because of the format there is very little real information on a page (I especially remember the one page with 4 or 5 panels with only the words "Ahhhhhhh" or similar
I agree. I remember seeing a picture once by some guy called Da Vinci. It was quite a large canvas, but all it had on it was a picture of a woman smiling slightly. No words, no real information at all. Useless.
From what I read Zach Snyder lived with a copy under his arm and so for once, mostly, the novelist and artist's vision are going to be implemented as they intended.
Alan Moore will be deeply relieved to hear that. I expect once the news reaches him he'll repent and allow his name to appear on the credits after all.
The technology differs from current cryptography tech primarily because it's cheap. Well, less than the $US100k price tag of rival systems.
Ah yes, that's so much cheaper than current cryptography. Take TrueCrypt for example, which is, er, completely free.
Did the summary perhaps mean to state that this system is cheaper than other current quantum cryptography tech?
As someone who rarely watches cop shows, and watches little TV in general, I can totally recommend The Wire. It's finished now, but there's sixty episodes across five seasons. I'm about half way through, and it's compulsive viewing - grittier than the average police drama, with far more believable characters.
Oh great, that sounds like a really useful invention.
You could go into the trading business, busing and selling houses.
Busing houses only became practical with a high-strength character though.
I call rule 34! Oh shit...
In actual fact, your drummer is following the cues given by your delay effect and your playing, ensuring that everything stays in time. This is very skillful in itself, but it's not the same as him somehow staying on an exact tempo via some kind of "internal metronome" throughout the song. That's not humanly possible.
One way to prove this would be to get him to begin playing along to a recording which you know is played to a precise steady tempo, then mute the playback while he continues. Unmute the sound towards the end of the song and he should still be exactly in time with the song, if what you describe is true. Not even the best drummer in the world will maintain a tempo accurately enough for this to happen. Don't forget, he only has to drift out by a tenth of a second over the course of three or four minutes for his beat to be completely out.
Please don't think I'm belittling his skills though, he sounds like a great musician. It's just that what you described isn't actually possible.
The trick is that since the terrorist will say no, they can be deported for lying on an immigration form, which has much less of a legal burden than proving that they actually are terrorists.
Correct me if I'm missing something here, but surely you can't prove they've lied on the immigration form until you've proved that they're a terrorist, at which point... well, you've proven they're a terrorist, and the form becomes irrelevant.
I mentioned this once on reddit and someone called it a 'braindead' approach.
Ah well, if the Reddit guys don't like it, the idea must be fundamentally broken - there's no point us wasting time here on /. discussing it further.
I'm an open-minded, relatively intelligent guy...
Yet you turned down a 20% pay increase because your prospective boss likes to have a laugh? Or was it that your taste in flags, spirits and actresses varied so wildly from his that your differences were irreconcilable? Sure, this guy doesn't sound like a great intellectual (or someone that I'd like to spend a lot of time with) but he'd be your employer, not your new best buddy.
More to the point perhaps, why did this guy let you add him on Facebook? People I know add only their friends, and to my understanding that's the whole idea. If I was to receive a friend invite from a random stranger, I would decline it without a second thought.
I agree - in fact, I'd go even further. If only there was some way to run an "executable file" natively on my machine that could handle these kind of development tasks.
It could perform the same job as these web-based IDEs, but potentially much quicker, and without requiring internet access. I don't know if such a thing would be feasible, perhaps it's a crazy idea, but I can dream.
I always find it odd when people lament how underpowered Atom-based netbooks are. Sure, they're not as beefy as a modern dual core desktop system, but short of video editing and 3D gaming they can still handle pretty much anything you can throw at them.
I use Visual Studio on my Acer Aspire One all the time. Code compiles a bit more slowly than on my desktop, but it's still perfectly usable. I love that machine, it's actually small enough to take places, and powerful enough to run everything I need.
This is why anytime I hear someone say they are sure of something I just smile and nod.
Really? Dude, I'm sure you owe me $500.
On the other hand, Euler is a pretty cool name for a cat. You've just given me an idea...
I just asked my cat, who is not a lawyer, a few questions about it. Note that he is primarily what I like to refer to as a cute little bastard, so this is outside of his normal repertoire. Here are his answers (paraphrased):
Q: Do you know what an EULA is?
A: Miaow
Q: You know, those end user license agreements you have to accept when you buy or download certain software?
A: Miaow?
Q: If you built a device that would allow a cat to accept an EULA, would you be legally bound by the EULA?
A: Miaooowwww!
There you have it.
How about the Chewbacca defence?
He had good intent
But CarpetShark did not grok
Line length in Haiku
If they're unsure of the details, I'd be happy to tell them to spin.
It stars a 4-year-old cutie named Kylie (Silverlight required) showing how easy it is to use Windows Live Photo Gallery
Poor kid. You'd think her parents could have come up with a better middle name than that.
Not a problem for everyone.
Indeed. That's why the article says "The problem for ARM", not "the problem for everyone".
Happy though you are running Linux, ARM themselves would love for the other 99% of the market to be able to run their OS of choice on an ARM processor.
You could argue that it would be nice if this could be achieved by moving people to Linux. ARM, however, just want people to buy their chips in large quantities, and don't particularly care why they're doing it.
At least it's an improvement on Vista, which is capable of "booting the operating system, without running applications or games".
Why wouldn't these reports be available under FOIA?
FTFA:
"The CRS, as a branch of Congress, is exempt from the Freedom of Information Act."
IANAL.... but my gf is =)
Yeah, my gf loves that too. Oh wait, sorry...