Actually, some of this makes sense. Remember that the way we (your average geek) use computers compared to the average human being is much different. My wife checks email, goes to facebook, uses Word and that is about it. Why does she need all the cruft of a "normal" OS. Of course she could, and does actually know how to do more advanced things with a computer, but that is just not something she NEEDS.
In that case a much simpler desktop experience (Metro) isn't really backwards, but it is really following what Steve Jobs said about the way we'll use computers. For the average user a tablet like experience will really do the trick just fine. You appear to forget that the way we use a PC desktop is no longer the norm.
I can't say much for other cars, but my '07 audi has sensors in the brake pads which will cause a warning to come up in the information panel. Oddly enough, the car is being somewhat truthful. The light in mine came on a full year after the dealer told me my pads were dangerously low... When the light came on I was definitely below 20% pad life.
I also got a message telling me the fuel cap wasn't tight enough, anything past this level of information is going to go over most drivers heads. When the MAF begins to malfunction, how many drivers care to have this explained to them by the car rather than just a message telling them "something you should get fixed has happened, go to a mechanic"
You can all but guarantee the studios behind the licensing wrote in something to keep them from doing just that, no way they can appear to be the bad guys.
Well, I guess the one difference is once you reach your destination you still have your means of travel. The one thing you overlooked is after you fly your plane to point B, you then either need to own a second car, or need to rent.
It's not a huge benefit, but I can see someone who's hopping around states travelling a lot might get some use, yes it is still rather impractical
So, if the science disagrees with your point of view, its propaganda. Now if it agrees with your ideas, it's true. Sounds like something else people tend to do, whats that called... oh yes, religion.
I didn't know your sources had the monopoly on truth. I'll make sure to note that for next time.
Reading comprehension my friend, reading comprehension. He did not make an argument FOR anything, merely that the person who is doing nothing but spreading Nuclear FUD, actually come up with some answers to the big questions. Is it not fair to ask what will we do with the waste?
The W3C, despite what some people think, is not a kind of "web government" that sits above browser makers, website designers etc. and tells them what to do. Rather, its purpose is to make the standards that the community has agreed on official.
Interesting. So basically they come a long and say, "hey you're all using that? Ok, it's a standard now". Well, thanks captain obvious. So really they are nothing more than glorified technical writers.
What the article plainly ignores is that OS X is the de-facto development environment for the Web Services industry. Most if not all web development shops are based on OS X for their development platforms.
You must not be a web developer. Of the 5 different web-dev positions I've held, Only 1 has been an OS X shop. The rest were Linux and or Windows. You also conveniently forget.NET exists. Over generalizing makes your comments appear sensational, and inaccurate.
OS X is clearly not going anywhere, but they do not command the Web as you believe.
Where are my mod points when I need them. The article also for some strange reason doesn't mention that if you don't allow installation from unknown sources that this malware won't be able to install. Interesting how they leave that out.
I realize on/. this will go over like a plutonium filled lead balloon, but distance learning as a primary means of children's education is a terrible idea. Social interactions are extremely important to a child's development. Kids learning in isolation at home may make them intelligent but will be disastrous to their social well-being. Yes many people here are by nature introverted, but as a race if we continue to weaken our actual bonds to each other (texting and IM do not count), we will fall apart.
Online education can be a great supplement, but people need to interact consistently on a face to face basis.
Wish I had mod points for this. Developing is so much easier with two monitors. I've found for web UI, server side, application, pretty much all development is easier when I can view my code/debugger and output at the same time. Having to flip back and forth slows me down.
The only saving grace for when I need to work with 1 monitor is workspaces/osx spaces. I still have to switch, but can at least keep each virtual monitor static to my liking, and not have to deal with window layering. Still 2 monitors is better.
I thought we were going to Web 5.0, because it was so awesome it skipped 3 and 4.
In Web 3.0 news, the blowhard founder of a company I worked for has been bandying about with that term for the past 3 years. He never really had a good explanation of it, but I think it made him feel smart. So smart that the company is barely hanging on with about 25% of its one time staff and customers.
No case??? Seriously?? If you hit a man with your car and first thing you think about is "oh, I need to update my facebook status", than.... WTF is wrong with you???
Actually, yeah there would be no case for wrongful death. If you were posting about the event that occurred, how do you propose that facebook status update caused the accident? You got some new physics? If you are making a case against uncouth behavior, sure, but last I checked thats not illegal.
you do realize of course that blizzard is allowing a name change due to the frequency of the complaint you have. So, they solve the issue you have, and you still complain? I have a feeling that you'll find another reason seeing that your reason is most easily debunked. Clearly you just want to be negative, thats fine, but stop lying about a perfectly good game to get your warped view across.
Or you know, the whole thing could be confirmation bias.
I once believed that smurfs murder more people than gnomes. So I searched smurf murder rates. somehow all those searches mentioned more murders by smurfs than gnomes, so I must have been correct.
This is probably a landmine, but the church I grew up in actually had a different take on masturbation. It seemed a little silly at the time, but I kind of see the theology behind it a little bit more now. And yes, this was an everyday run of the mill protestant church.
The teaching was that masturbation is not a sin, but if you do it will viewing pornography, then the pornography is akin to fornication. Their logic was that masturbation while not viewing sinful material was fine.
Of course that takes all the fun out of it, but at least that seems a more plausible explanation to me.
If you are truly into open source you want to use Theora, but support there is not full, so maybe you have to work with h.264, which has a myriad of licensing issues, I fail to see how this is truly superior to the issues faced with Flash currently. It to me feels like an "out of the pot and into the fire" scenario. Both have their pitfalls and neither are clearly better solutions until we get the HTML5 issue more clearly resolved.
This is not entirely correct. They also found that a very common problem was that there was difficulty in differentiating tail lights from brake lights. In many cars tail lights were simply brighter versions of the tail light. By adding a third light, or more simply a light that would NOT be there until brakes were applied, drivers would have less trouble realizing that brakes were being applied. So yes, there is still a benefit of "third eye" because it has become an indicator of braking.
This is very easy to notice. If you are not watching the tail lights in front of you closely, you would not know that the brightness changed because you do not have a frame of reference. Therefore a light which only illuminates when braking creates a very clear indicator.
I'm not so sure abortion really fits the same criteria. Now while the argument that STD's are consequences of "immoral" sex is a purely religious one, pregnancy is not. Pregnancy is a natural consequence of sex. Whether you are religious, atheist, or spaghetti monsterist, you cannot argue that fact. Hell if you are an evolutionist you'd have to agree that until we learned to enjoy sex as a fun activity, it was purely for procreation, advancement of the species. The problem now is that since we have learned we can do it just for fun, we believe that we can avoid the natural result of sex. Especially now that we have the technology to end pregnancy, the belief is growing that sex can become purely non-consequential. I am personally middle of the fence on the subject, there are circumstances in which abortion may be a reasonable choice, but I do not see it as a get-out-of-jail-free card to do whatever one likes and then avoid the results. For the record, yes I am a religious type, and yes sex is pretty awesome. I do not believe it my place to control someones sexuality. I also believe that the existence of abortion should not be a free pass against the very possible result of sex should it occur.
TLDR: pregnancy is a consequence of sex no matter how, when or where you do it. You roll the dice, you should be prepared to handle the result of your actions
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Actually, some of this makes sense. Remember that the way we (your average geek) use computers compared to the average human being is much different. My wife checks email, goes to facebook, uses Word and that is about it. Why does she need all the cruft of a "normal" OS. Of course she could, and does actually know how to do more advanced things with a computer, but that is just not something she NEEDS.
In that case a much simpler desktop experience (Metro) isn't really backwards, but it is really following what Steve Jobs said about the way we'll use computers. For the average user a tablet like experience will really do the trick just fine. You appear to forget that the way we use a PC desktop is no longer the norm.
I can't say much for other cars, but my '07 audi has sensors in the brake pads which will cause a warning to come up in the information panel. Oddly enough, the car is being somewhat truthful. The light in mine came on a full year after the dealer told me my pads were dangerously low... When the light came on I was definitely below 20% pad life.
I also got a message telling me the fuel cap wasn't tight enough, anything past this level of information is going to go over most drivers heads. When the MAF begins to malfunction, how many drivers care to have this explained to them by the car rather than just a message telling them "something you should get fixed has happened, go to a mechanic"
If you discount art solely because you don't like the intentions behind the creator then you have no business being an artist.
You can all but guarantee the studios behind the licensing wrote in something to keep them from doing just that, no way they can appear to be the bad guys.
Well technically you're not allowed to mention Project Voldemort by name, so they couldn't really cover it.
That would be nice, unfortunately FB has already shown they will break/ban anything that G+ does to integrate.
Well, I guess the one difference is once you reach your destination you still have your means of travel. The one thing you overlooked is after you fly your plane to point B, you then either need to own a second car, or need to rent.
It's not a huge benefit, but I can see someone who's hopping around states travelling a lot might get some use, yes it is still rather impractical
When you are running an ARM desktop for one.
How do people still not get this?
So, if the science disagrees with your point of view, its propaganda. Now if it agrees with your ideas, it's true. Sounds like something else people tend to do, whats that called... oh yes, religion.
I didn't know your sources had the monopoly on truth. I'll make sure to note that for next time.
I love how short demos of a new feature cause people to draw so many conclusions.
Reading comprehension my friend, reading comprehension. He did not make an argument FOR anything, merely that the person who is doing nothing but spreading Nuclear FUD, actually come up with some answers to the big questions. Is it not fair to ask what will we do with the waste?
The W3C, despite what some people think, is not a kind of "web government" that sits above browser makers, website designers etc. and tells them what to do. Rather, its purpose is to make the standards that the community has agreed on official.
Interesting. So basically they come a long and say, "hey you're all using that? Ok, it's a standard now". Well, thanks captain obvious. So really they are nothing more than glorified technical writers.
What the article plainly ignores is that OS X is the de-facto development environment for the Web Services industry. Most if not all web development shops are based on OS X for their development platforms.
You must not be a web developer. Of the 5 different web-dev positions I've held, Only 1 has been an OS X shop. The rest were Linux and or Windows. You also conveniently forget .NET exists. Over generalizing makes your comments appear sensational, and inaccurate.
OS X is clearly not going anywhere, but they do not command the Web as you believe.
Where are my mod points when I need them. The article also for some strange reason doesn't mention that if you don't allow installation from unknown sources that this malware won't be able to install. Interesting how they leave that out.
I realize on /. this will go over like a plutonium filled lead balloon, but distance learning as a primary means of children's education is a terrible idea. Social interactions are extremely important to a child's development. Kids learning in isolation at home may make them intelligent but will be disastrous to their social well-being. Yes many people here are by nature introverted, but as a race if we continue to weaken our actual bonds to each other (texting and IM do not count), we will fall apart.
Online education can be a great supplement, but people need to interact consistently on a face to face basis.
Wish I had mod points for this. Developing is so much easier with two monitors. I've found for web UI, server side, application, pretty much all development is easier when I can view my code/debugger and output at the same time. Having to flip back and forth slows me down. The only saving grace for when I need to work with 1 monitor is workspaces/osx spaces. I still have to switch, but can at least keep each virtual monitor static to my liking, and not have to deal with window layering. Still 2 monitors is better.
I thought we were going to Web 5.0, because it was so awesome it skipped 3 and 4. In Web 3.0 news, the blowhard founder of a company I worked for has been bandying about with that term for the past 3 years. He never really had a good explanation of it, but I think it made him feel smart. So smart that the company is barely hanging on with about 25% of its one time staff and customers.
No case??? Seriously?? If you hit a man with your car and first thing you think about is "oh, I need to update my facebook status", than .... WTF is wrong with you???
Actually, yeah there would be no case for wrongful death. If you were posting about the event that occurred, how do you propose that facebook status update caused the accident? You got some new physics?
If you are making a case against uncouth behavior, sure, but last I checked thats not illegal.
you do realize of course that blizzard is allowing a name change due to the frequency of the complaint you have. So, they solve the issue you have, and you still complain? I have a feeling that you'll find another reason seeing that your reason is most easily debunked. Clearly you just want to be negative, thats fine, but stop lying about a perfectly good game to get your warped view across.
Or you know, the whole thing could be confirmation bias.
I once believed that smurfs murder more people than gnomes. So I searched smurf murder rates. somehow all those searches mentioned more murders by smurfs than gnomes, so I must have been correct.
This is probably a landmine, but the church I grew up in actually had a different take on masturbation. It seemed a little silly at the time, but I kind of see the theology behind it a little bit more now. And yes, this was an everyday run of the mill protestant church.
The teaching was that masturbation is not a sin, but if you do it will viewing pornography, then the pornography is akin to fornication. Their logic was that masturbation while not viewing sinful material was fine.
Of course that takes all the fun out of it, but at least that seems a more plausible explanation to me.
In regards to #3. HTML5 does not specify a video standard: http://www.zdnet.com/news/html-5-drops-open-source-video-codec/318208
If you are truly into open source you want to use Theora, but support there is not full, so maybe you have to work with h.264, which has a myriad of licensing issues, I fail to see how this is truly superior to the issues faced with Flash currently. It to me feels like an "out of the pot and into the fire" scenario. Both have their pitfalls and neither are clearly better solutions until we get the HTML5 issue more clearly resolved.
sure, MINE can, but for that reason I always keep the trunk empty. I don't want the poor sap who'll end up in there to crush anything valuable.
This is not entirely correct. They also found that a very common problem was that there was difficulty in differentiating tail lights from brake lights. In many cars tail lights were simply brighter versions of the tail light. By adding a third light, or more simply a light that would NOT be there until brakes were applied, drivers would have less trouble realizing that brakes were being applied. So yes, there is still a benefit of "third eye" because it has become an indicator of braking.
This is very easy to notice. If you are not watching the tail lights in front of you closely, you would not know that the brightness changed because you do not have a frame of reference. Therefore a light which only illuminates when braking creates a very clear indicator.
I'm not so sure abortion really fits the same criteria. Now while the argument that STD's are consequences of "immoral" sex is a purely religious one, pregnancy is not. Pregnancy is a natural consequence of sex. Whether you are religious, atheist, or spaghetti monsterist, you cannot argue that fact. Hell if you are an evolutionist you'd have to agree that until we learned to enjoy sex as a fun activity, it was purely for procreation, advancement of the species. The problem now is that since we have learned we can do it just for fun, we believe that we can avoid the natural result of sex. Especially now that we have the technology to end pregnancy, the belief is growing that sex can become purely non-consequential. I am personally middle of the fence on the subject, there are circumstances in which abortion may be a reasonable choice, but I do not see it as a get-out-of-jail-free card to do whatever one likes and then avoid the results. For the record, yes I am a religious type, and yes sex is pretty awesome. I do not believe it my place to control someones sexuality. I also believe that the existence of abortion should not be a free pass against the very possible result of sex should it occur.
TLDR: pregnancy is a consequence of sex no matter how, when or where you do it. You roll the dice, you should be prepared to handle the result of your actions