Untrue. We pay many -- heck, most -- of our monthly bills with checks. The local grocery stores still take checks (though we take advantage of that very infrequently). Expensive auto repairs? Write a check. (Started doing that after we found that a credit card company dinged our credit score for racking up a big bill one month for a semi-major repair.)
``All the big sites already shit on convention by making the page scroll endlessly, moving content around when a user scrolls to create stupid effects, etc.''>
This^3
This ``infinitely long page'' idea was the way to format web pages will forever be at the top of my worst-web-site-ideas list. I really just love to death moving my mouse one pixel down only to have the page re-format taking me several screen's worth of material down. If the designer's goal was to limit the amount of time I want to spend on their web site, then, Mission Accomplished.
... web designers really are out to make us lose our eyesight.
Other pet peeves about the new, modern Web:
* web links that don't change color after being visited.
* web links that won't even appear if you dare to assign your own colors using your browser settings.
* Browsers that don't allow you to easily change the font size for things like tab labels. (Not really a web design problem but I'm talkin' to you Mozilla!)
* Including graphics everywhere on the web page but never including the image sizing tags to preallocate the space for images that haven't loaded yet. As a result, it takes way, way too long for a web page to stabilize before you can begin reading anything.
* Drop down menus that obscure other drop down menus making it impossible to access certain menus. (Not without going to the "site map". If, that is, they even bothered to include that on the site pages.)
* (Just the tip of the iceberg.)
Render the GPS on someone's cellphone useless if they're, unbeknownst to the poor phone user, near a location that the government has decided shouldn't be found via GPS. What happens to the poor soul who needs to call 9-1-1 after gettiing in a nasty car accident or to report a crime and the EMS service or police can't find them because GPS indicates they're miles away from the true location? Short: answer: there a good chance that, if they're seriously injured, they'll probably die. Jeebus, this is that damned stupidest thing I've heard in a while.
Yep. Want to bet that at least one of those profile views that you got that chose to check you out anonymously was actually someone in your current employers' HR department?
Back in the days when the Sunday paper was a decent (not great but far from the pretty much complete waste of time it is today) place to see job ads, you could apply to the blind ads -- who might very well be your current employer -- and request that your reply not be submitted should it be from a company that you didn't want to be submitted to (i.e., your current employer) or some other hellhole that you'd never want to work for. One used to hear horror stories, though, about newspapers that didn't see the job seeker's request -- or ignored it -- and wound up getting their resume submitted to the HR people down the hall. What's to stop this from happening at LinkedIn? Especially with all the anonymous profile browsing that LI seems to like getting paid to allow?
This is on par with the time the guy in the mall electronics store told me that one TV was better than another because it had more channels in the tube. (My wife heard me say "Oh! Tell me more!", knew I smelled blood, and dragged me out before it got too weird... or ugly.)
``when I installed the app it it was in the start menu and not an icon on the desktop.''
Well, that's how you know when you're dealing with a ``power user'' isn't it? When their desktop is completely filled with icons. Only newbies use the menus.
``See if there's anything in the logs that's not what you were expecting, bearing in mind that they'll almost certainly be phoning home to "check for updates" and "backup your data to the cloud" (AKA "monetize your data").''
This could include almost every IP address you find in your logs. Do you know the IP address of every ancillary site that the web sites you visit make connections to while you're browsing their pages? The advertisement servers? Any image servers? The external sites for comments/discussions? Now multiply that by the number of people in your family that use the internet. I haven't seen a single network-aware device that included something in the manual -- or some sort of set of instructions -- that tells you what sites it'll be connecting to on a regular basis. IMHO, we pretty much lost this battle years ago.
It breaks down rapidly and, in the very low doses at which it is prescribed, should not pose a risk to humans.
Uh... did they test it on other, you know, non-mosquito insects? Have they had their fingers in their ears for the past decade and didn't hear about declining bee populations?
This insecticide might not have a direct effect on humans. But the secondary effect of not having any damned food just might turn out to be rather important.
A recent story in the HuffPo listed cities where the average household income is way, way below what it takes to buy an average car that's now costing $33K-$34K. Yeah, by all means, let's make cars even more expensive to buy and repair.
Yeah, 100-600 hz means we aren't talking about any great amount of data at a time.
Pretty much the first thing I thought of. What baud rate would be possible using this? It couldn't be very high. Each 0-to-1 and 1-to-0 transition would have to wait for the fan speed to stabilize and that would take a variable amount of time depending on the fan size.
Interesting concept in the lab but would this really work in a real life situation? Many work environments have all sorts of ambient noise that might interfere with being able to detect the computer's fan noise.
... because I've turned off the GPS on my phone. FB will only know when I call 9-1-1 in a physical store. And I'm not sure how they will even know that if I haven't installed any of their software on my phone.
FB wants to be the only web site you visit. Rather like a cult that wants to control who you talk to, what you read, etc. I can only imagine how much worse it is when actually working within that organization.
First "formal" attempt to learn how to program was in freshman year of college in Calculus class. The professor spent about five minutes trying to teach the basics of FORTRAN: "This is a DO loop it...", etc. Then he assigned homework to write programs to numerically integrate the equations in problems 1-10. It was a disaster. (I won't even go into the ancient computing system that everyone had to use for these assignments. The lack of adequate computer resources was another disaster I won't go into.)
I finally ran across a copy of Kemeny and Kurtz's BASIC programming book in the discount bin at the student book store. Bought that, logged onto my computer account, and worked through all the examples in that book one rainy Saturday afternoon. By then we had a brand new system that had been installed the summer before. Still not unlimited access but orders of magnitude better than we had during the learning-programming-during-Calculus debacle of the year before. Yeah it was BASIC but it was a springboard to the other languages I'd wind up learning in the future.
Rocks kicked up by other cars?
The neighbor kid's Frisbee?
Various other types of road debris?
Hopefully, they've found a way to keep this from happening or it won't be too long before your Google car will look like a garbage dump on wheels. The FA didn't say anything about how often you'd need to take your Google car in to be resurfaced with a new layer of glue.
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... that using centralized control over your army of robots was a poor design choice?
Untrue. We pay many -- heck, most -- of our monthly bills with checks. The local grocery stores still take checks (though we take advantage of that very infrequently). Expensive auto repairs? Write a check. (Started doing that after we found that a credit card company dinged our credit score for racking up a big bill one month for a semi-major repair.)
This^3
This ``infinitely long page'' idea was the way to format web pages will forever be at the top of my worst-web-site-ideas list. I really just love to death moving my mouse one pixel down only to have the page re-format taking me several screen's worth of material down. If the designer's goal was to limit the amount of time I want to spend on their web site, then, Mission Accomplished.
... web designers really are out to make us lose our eyesight.
Other pet peeves about the new, modern Web:
* web links that don't change color after being visited.
* web links that won't even appear if you dare to assign your own colors using your browser settings.
* Browsers that don't allow you to easily change the font size for things like tab labels. (Not really a web design problem but I'm talkin' to you Mozilla!)
* Including graphics everywhere on the web page but never including the image sizing tags to preallocate the space for images that haven't loaded yet. As a result, it takes way, way too long for a web page to stabilize before you can begin reading anything.
* Drop down menus that obscure other drop down menus making it impossible to access certain menus. (Not without going to the "site map". If, that is, they even bothered to include that on the site pages.)
* (Just the tip of the iceberg.)
Render the GPS on someone's cellphone useless if they're, unbeknownst to the poor phone user, near a location that the government has decided shouldn't be found via GPS. What happens to the poor soul who needs to call 9-1-1 after gettiing in a nasty car accident or to report a crime and the EMS service or police can't find them because GPS indicates they're miles away from the true location? Short: answer: there a good chance that, if they're seriously injured, they'll probably die. Jeebus, this is that damned stupidest thing I've heard in a while.
Yep. Want to bet that at least one of those profile views that you got that chose to check you out anonymously was actually someone in your current employers' HR department?
Back in the days when the Sunday paper was a decent (not great but far from the pretty much complete waste of time it is today) place to see job ads, you could apply to the blind ads -- who might very well be your current employer -- and request that your reply not be submitted should it be from a company that you didn't want to be submitted to (i.e., your current employer) or some other hellhole that you'd never want to work for. One used to hear horror stories, though, about newspapers that didn't see the job seeker's request -- or ignored it -- and wound up getting their resume submitted to the HR people down the hall. What's to stop this from happening at LinkedIn? Especially with all the anonymous profile browsing that LI seems to like getting paid to allow?
You forgot about age discrimination; the one protection that employers flout with impunity.
This is on par with the time the guy in the mall electronics store told me that one TV was better than another because it had more channels in the tube. (My wife heard me say "Oh! Tell me more!", knew I smelled blood, and dragged me out before it got too weird... or ugly.)
Well, that's how you know when you're dealing with a ``power user'' isn't it? When their desktop is completely filled with icons. Only newbies use the menus.
This could include almost every IP address you find in your logs. Do you know the IP address of every ancillary site that the web sites you visit make connections to while you're browsing their pages? The advertisement servers? Any image servers? The external sites for comments/discussions? Now multiply that by the number of people in your family that use the internet. I haven't seen a single network-aware device that included something in the manual -- or some sort of set of instructions -- that tells you what sites it'll be connecting to on a regular basis. IMHO, we pretty much lost this battle years ago.
Uh... did they test it on other, you know, non-mosquito insects? Have they had their fingers in their ears for the past decade and didn't hear about declining bee populations?
This insecticide might not have a direct effect on humans. But the secondary effect of not having any damned food just might turn out to be rather important.
... would be, uh, pretty difficult to hack into. A lot more difficult than some crappy Diebold voting machine running some Windows variant.
... you'd think the attendees would, you know, actually pay attention to the event. Silly me.
...but it sure seems like blackmail to me.
(Of course, IANAL blah, blah, blah...)
A recent story in the HuffPo listed cities where the average household income is way, way below what it takes to buy an average car that's now costing $33K-$34K. Yeah, by all means, let's make cars even more expensive to buy and repair.
... I haven't been able to access the Google Play store since the Android update I got back in April 2015.
Pretty much the first thing I thought of. What baud rate would be possible using this? It couldn't be very high. Each 0-to-1 and 1-to-0 transition would have to wait for the fan speed to stabilize and that would take a variable amount of time depending on the fan size.
Interesting concept in the lab but would this really work in a real life situation? Many work environments have all sorts of ambient noise that might interfere with being able to detect the computer's fan noise.
... Radionomy via Xiph (using streamtuner2 + audacious) has satisfied my music streaming needs for a while.
... because I've turned off the GPS on my phone. FB will only know when I call 9-1-1 in a physical store. And I'm not sure how they will even know that if I haven't installed any of their software on my phone.
FB wants to be the only web site you visit. Rather like a cult that wants to control who you talk to, what you read, etc. I can only imagine how much worse it is when actually working within that organization.
First "formal" attempt to learn how to program was in freshman year of college in Calculus class. The professor spent about five minutes trying to teach the basics of FORTRAN: "This is a DO loop it ...", etc. Then he assigned homework to write programs to numerically integrate the equations in problems 1-10. It was a disaster. (I won't even go into the ancient computing system that everyone had to use for these assignments. The lack of adequate computer resources was another disaster I won't go into.)
I finally ran across a copy of Kemeny and Kurtz's BASIC programming book in the discount bin at the student book store. Bought that, logged onto my computer account, and worked through all the examples in that book one rainy Saturday afternoon. By then we had a brand new system that had been installed the summer before. Still not unlimited access but orders of magnitude better than we had during the learning-programming-during-Calculus debacle of the year before. Yeah it was BASIC but it was a springboard to the other languages I'd wind up learning in the future.
I gotta remember that one. Seems to be a apropos description of several projects at work.
Rocks kicked up by other cars?
The neighbor kid's Frisbee?
Various other types of road debris?
Hopefully, they've found a way to keep this from happening or it won't be too long before your Google car will look like a garbage dump on wheels. The FA didn't say anything about how often you'd need to take your Google car in to be resurfaced with a new layer of glue.
Thanks for that. I needed a good laugh to start the day.
... when Comey was still telling everyone he wasn't obsessed with encryption, back doors, and such. Nowadays he doesn't even bother to lie about it.