"1. I added a wireless switch at knee level so my 2-year old can turn on the light in her room. She LOVES this. A motion sensor turns the light off 15 minutes after she leaves. When she's older I'll set it up so she turns the light off, but I didn't want her flashing the lights on/off/on/off for an hour"
You must be kidding me. I have a much cheaper and more robust automation system. My two year old stretches on his tippy toes to reach the lights or drags over a chair if he still can't reach. He'll occasionally mess with the lights when he shouldn't but that's what being a kid is about. As for automation, if I need a light switched and I'm too lazy to get up I have an eager two year old who will switch it for me - voice recognition built in.
Seriously, you are control freak - let you daughter frickin' mess with the lights!
Amazing how many posts mention all the same stuff and yet neglect a crucial part of any functional and fulfilling marriage. f*ck like rabbits and keep doing it no matter what. All the other advice is helpful and useful but if there is no sex, there will not be any happiness regardless of how courteous, considerate and caring you pretend to be.
Apple is going about this completely wrong. Instead of pissing millions in some legal brouhaha, Apple should send each and every congressional representative a brand new fully paid iPhone to get the legislation they need. After all we have the best politicians a shiny iPhone can buy.
Come to think of it, maybe this should be the EFF's strategy.
What drivel. Drag'n'Drop is the shortcut equivalent of 'Save File' in program 1, 'Open File' in program 2. It's a bunch of o' bytes. It makes absolutely no difference if the bytes come through the Drag'n'Drop route or through a file.
Wait until you really need your health insurance and you'll very quickly find out it isn't there after all when the insurance company tells you to go screw yourself and they ain't gonna pay to keep you around.
Similarly I use a MacBook Pro with the track pad. The keyboard is pretty good on the machine and two finger scrolling with the trackpad is addictive. And, of course, your hand never needs to move around.
When you've learned to survive in the wild after being left without anything on your person you'll have earned the right to lecture society about its dependence on technology. You are so accustomed to "old" technology (like textiles, knives, clean plentiful water, food everywhere) that you take it for granted and don't even realize it. You'd be dead in a week without all these things you take for granted.Yet somehow this new technology is harmful and turning us to vegetables. You are exhibiting classic reactionary ludditism.
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Motif. When I first played with an Android phone the first thing it reminded me of was the Motif Window Manager with a colorful wallpaper and some pretty icons put in as a distraction. That about sums up the look and feel of Android.
UI failures that immediately hit me: 1. It's cluttered. You've got the app icons on your desktop. You've got the little tab thingy to pull up yet more apps (some of which already have "shortcuts" on your desktop. You've got that odd pulldown thingy from the top for notifications and a couple other things (like enabling external USB access to the flash, if I recall correctly). It's not really clear what goes where and why. 2. Motif. The UI elements (buttons, etc.) are horribly ugly and not user friendly as they are all kind of grayish. 3. A classic example of UI amateurism in Android is the touch scrolling. The iPhone has a neat trick which I'm guessing most people are convinced is a gimmick. I didn't realize the genius of the trick until I played with an Android phone and missed it. When you scroll to the end of a viewable area, the iPhone will "bounce scroll", it'll animate your view scrolling past the limit and then glide it back. Android does nothing in the same situation. So when you reach the end of the scrolling area on an iPhone you instantly realize it because the iPhone just gave you feedback. On an Android you slide your finger a couple more times with some uneasiness to be sure because there is no feedback of any kind. Someone at Apple thought this stuff through and it shows. 4. The iPhone provides a very robust set of UI widgets and API infrastructure that allow even an artfully-challenged person to create apps which are visually passable.
The weight of the dashboard may pull it away from the window and ease it off the knob. At the very least changing shuttle orientation will change the stresses on the frame and potentially some angle may be just right. Maybe...
I've had an iPhone for nearly a year now and I've recently gotten my hands on an Android device. Android has an amateurish summer project feel to it when compared to the polished iPhone OS. You can argue the technical merits of an open platform and hackability till you are blue in the face. It doesn't change the fact that Android is like the Linux desktop experience compared to the Windows or Mac desktop experience - it's an experience only a geek could love simply because he's willing to overlook the warts and horrendous usability because he can tinker. Most people don't care about the underpinnings of the device. They want it to work well, be easy to use and be shiny. The Android OS offers none of that. The big difference between Apple of today and the Apple that lost against Microsoft is price. Apple's handheld devices are very aggressively priced and it is Apple that is setting the price for the entire market. Android does not have the merits and it does not have the price advantage to compete. Unless google starts drastically improving it, Android is as good as dead.
"As noted, she gives them to everyone." By your own admission then. She gives them to everyone. There is no thought. Yet somehow, you manage to believe it's Obama's fault. You appear to be experiencing cognitive dissonance.
"another big component of showing respect in gift giving is thoughtfulness of the gift chosen"
Because a silver framed, autographed picture of herself is such a thoughtful gift and not a condescending exercise in superiority. Everyone should delight in the autographed likeness of her majesty, a leech. Even the most powerful man in the world.
In light of the photo and its symbolism, an iPod for her majesty is fitting.
There is a pretty theory stating that societies with cheap labor don't industrialize as there is no incentive to do so. The theory is typically in reference to the question of why the Roman empire failed to industrialize. Labor in the south was practically free through slaves, preventing the degree of industrialization seen in the north. In that light, the south lost because of its flawed ideology.
I for one salute these brave souls in Texas for standing up to bigoted academics and helping cement America's competitiveness in the global market for cheap uneducated labor. I look forward to the devolution of Texas' workforce into the burger flipping resource of the world.
I suggest someone (preferably not Australian) start a new Wikipedia topic to track all the banned links. It could be very useful as a reference for Australians to know which links they should not post.
I'm not specifically against the bomb drop but there was the option of demonstrating the weapon to the Japanese by dropping it near the shore so they could witness their impending doom before having to taste it. This always struck me as a plausible alternative course of action.
Dan Kaminsky is a smart guy but he seems to have missed the ball on this one. The idea behind the invention is that more complex inline packet sniffers are effectively layer 3 or above switches and as such will introduce different delays for different types of traffic depending on the attacker's interests. For example, ICMP typically won't interest an attacker so the packets will get forwarded promptly. UDP and/or TCP/IP laden with VOIP or file data would require the eavesdropping switch to further process those packets and introduce a bigger delay. The countermeasure for this is to slow down all packets an equal amount which would increase all packet latencies and potentially increase the eavesdropping delay footprint.
Duplicating an organic brain is useful in the same way that it is useful for a toddler to imitate his parents. A toddler does not understand the actions of his parents but he imitates them anyway because it is a very good learning strategy - learning by doing. As the toddler grows older and more experienced he will typically also learn the hows and whys (although not always, even into adulthood) through his actions. Similarly, the researchers at IBM represent humanity's understanding of the brain and intelligent systems in general - we are at the toddler stage, if not even earlier. One good strategy (nature thinks it's pretty good!) of trying to understand and learn more about it is through imitation. We many not now what or why we are imitating what we see but through imitation and experience we have a better chance of learning.
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"1. I added a wireless switch at knee level so my 2-year old can turn on the light in her room. She LOVES this. A motion sensor turns the light off 15 minutes after she leaves. When she's older I'll set it up so she turns the light off, but I didn't want her flashing the lights on/off/on/off for an hour"
You must be kidding me. I have a much cheaper and more robust automation system. My two year old stretches on his tippy toes to reach the lights or drags over a chair if he still can't reach. He'll occasionally mess with the lights when he shouldn't but that's what being a kid is about. As for automation, if I need a light switched and I'm too lazy to get up I have an eager two year old who will switch it for me - voice recognition built in.
Seriously, you are control freak - let you daughter frickin' mess with the lights!
"I'll merely point out that cockatiels well cared for in captivity live *FAR* longer than they do in the wild."
But are they happier?
Amazing how many posts mention all the same stuff and yet neglect a crucial part of any functional and fulfilling marriage. f*ck like rabbits and keep doing it no matter what. All the other advice is helpful and useful but if there is no sex, there will not be any happiness regardless of how courteous, considerate and caring you pretend to be.
Unless you are hiking the Appalachians!
Apple is going about this completely wrong. Instead of pissing millions in some legal brouhaha, Apple should send each and every congressional representative a brand new fully paid iPhone to get the legislation they need. After all we have the best politicians a shiny iPhone can buy.
Come to think of it, maybe this should be the EFF's strategy.
What drivel. Drag'n'Drop is the shortcut equivalent of 'Save File' in program 1, 'Open File' in program 2. It's a bunch of o' bytes. It makes absolutely no difference if the bytes come through the Drag'n'Drop route or through a file.
Wait until you really need your health insurance and you'll very quickly find out it isn't there after all when the insurance company tells you to go screw yourself and they ain't gonna pay to keep you around.
Similarly I use a MacBook Pro with the track pad.
The keyboard is pretty good on the machine and two finger scrolling with the trackpad is addictive. And, of course, your hand never needs to move around.
When you've learned to survive in the wild after being left without anything on your person you'll have earned the right to lecture society about its dependence on technology.
You are so accustomed to "old" technology (like textiles, knives, clean plentiful water, food everywhere) that you take it for granted and don't even realize it. You'd be dead in a week without all these things you take for granted.Yet somehow this new technology is harmful and turning us to vegetables.
You are exhibiting classic reactionary ludditism.
Motif. When I first played with an Android phone the first thing it reminded me of was the Motif Window Manager with a colorful wallpaper and some pretty icons put in as a distraction. That about sums up the look and feel of Android.
UI failures that immediately hit me:
1. It's cluttered. You've got the app icons on your desktop. You've got the little tab thingy to pull up yet more apps (some of which already have "shortcuts" on your desktop. You've got that odd pulldown thingy from the top for notifications and a couple other things (like enabling external USB access to the flash, if I recall correctly). It's not really clear what goes where and why.
2. Motif. The UI elements (buttons, etc.) are horribly ugly and not user friendly as they are all kind of grayish.
3. A classic example of UI amateurism in Android is the touch scrolling. The iPhone has a neat trick which I'm guessing most people are convinced is a gimmick. I didn't realize the genius of the trick until I played with an Android phone and missed it. When you scroll to the end of a viewable area, the iPhone will "bounce scroll", it'll animate your view scrolling past the limit and then glide it back. Android does nothing in the same situation. So when you reach the end of the scrolling area on an iPhone you instantly realize it because the iPhone just gave you feedback. On an Android you slide your finger a couple more times with some uneasiness to be sure because there is no feedback of any kind. Someone at Apple thought this stuff through and it shows.
4. The iPhone provides a very robust set of UI widgets and API infrastructure that allow even an artfully-challenged person to create apps which are visually passable.
Oil.
The weight of the dashboard may pull it away from the window and ease it off the knob. At the very least changing shuttle orientation will change the stresses on the frame and potentially some angle may be just right.
Maybe...
I've had an iPhone for nearly a year now and I've recently gotten my hands on an Android device.
Android has an amateurish summer project feel to it when compared to the polished iPhone OS. You can argue the technical merits of an open platform and hackability till you are blue in the face. It doesn't change the fact that Android is like the Linux desktop experience compared to the Windows or Mac desktop experience - it's an experience only a geek could love simply because he's willing to overlook the warts and horrendous usability because he can tinker.
Most people don't care about the underpinnings of the device. They want it to work well, be easy to use and be shiny. The Android OS offers none of that.
The big difference between Apple of today and the Apple that lost against Microsoft is price. Apple's handheld devices are very aggressively priced and it is Apple that is setting the price for the entire market.
Android does not have the merits and it does not have the price advantage to compete.
Unless google starts drastically improving it, Android is as good as dead.
An Israeli shipped wrapped the ship's hull with barbed wire...
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2009/04/05/pirates_attack_israeli_ship_off_somalia/
Nope. Ireland was a net exporter of food during the famine. The major cause of the Irish famine was politics.
"As noted, she gives them to everyone."
By your own admission then. She gives them to everyone. There is no thought. Yet somehow, you manage to believe it's Obama's fault. You appear to be experiencing cognitive dissonance.
"another big component of showing respect in gift giving is thoughtfulness of the gift chosen"
Because a silver framed, autographed picture of herself is such a thoughtful gift and not a condescending exercise in superiority. Everyone should delight in the autographed likeness of her majesty, a leech. Even the most powerful man in the world.
In light of the photo and its symbolism, an iPod for her majesty is fitting.
There is a pretty theory stating that societies with cheap labor don't industrialize as there is no incentive to do so. The theory is typically in reference to the question of why the Roman empire failed to industrialize.
Labor in the south was practically free through slaves, preventing the degree of industrialization seen in the north. In that light, the south lost because of its flawed ideology.
I for one salute these brave souls in Texas for standing up to bigoted academics and helping cement America's competitiveness in the global market for cheap uneducated labor.
I look forward to the devolution of Texas' workforce into the burger flipping resource of the world.
I suggest someone (preferably not Australian) start a new Wikipedia topic to track all the banned links. It could be very useful as a reference for Australians to know which links they should not post.
I'm not specifically against the bomb drop but there was the option of demonstrating the weapon to the Japanese by dropping it near the shore so they could witness their impending doom before having to taste it.
This always struck me as a plausible alternative course of action.
Dan Kaminsky is a smart guy but he seems to have missed the ball on this one. The idea behind the invention is that more complex inline packet sniffers are effectively layer 3 or above switches and as such will introduce different delays for different types of traffic depending on the attacker's interests. For example, ICMP typically won't interest an attacker so the packets will get forwarded promptly. UDP and/or TCP/IP laden with VOIP or file data would require the eavesdropping switch to further process those packets and introduce a bigger delay.
The countermeasure for this is to slow down all packets an equal amount which would increase all packet latencies and potentially increase the eavesdropping delay footprint.
~50% voted for Bush Jr. twice.
It appears that anything a Google employee does these days is considered revolutionary even if it's lame, unoriginal and uninspired.
That being said, here is some real 3D spreadsheet graphics: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3563/microsoft_excel_revolutionary_3d_.php
Duplicating an organic brain is useful in the same way that it is useful for a toddler to imitate his parents.
A toddler does not understand the actions of his parents but he imitates them anyway because it is a very good learning strategy - learning by doing. As the toddler grows older and more experienced he will typically also learn the hows and whys (although not always, even into adulthood) through his actions.
Similarly, the researchers at IBM represent humanity's understanding of the brain and intelligent systems in general - we are at the toddler stage, if not even earlier. One good strategy (nature thinks it's pretty good!) of trying to understand and learn more about it is through imitation. We many not now what or why we are imitating what we see but through imitation and experience we have a better chance of learning.