No matter all the R&D you do, there's nothing quite like actually putting a full-size version out there and using it in earnest. That provides real and useful data that you don't get when you're just experimenting, and feeds back into the next generation.
For that matter, it's not like it's a totally unknown and unproven technology being/has been deployed in Texas or Cape Wind - the Europeans have had these for a few years. If you're going to wait until you have the "perfect" design you're going to be a while.
Umm, you do realise that Xenophon was elected on an anti-gambling platform and initially joined forces with Fielding to push Labor into introducing a mandatory filter that would block gambling sites in exchange for their votes on other issues before the senate, right?
Yes. That was his platform, that's what the people of SA voted in, and that was his pejorative to negotiate. The reality of representative democracy is that negotiations bring out a compromise agreement that you might not agree with, but that's where you can contact your MP or those in a negotiating position to try to sway them.
You also realise that Xenophon changed his stance on the filter after Conroy dragged all sorts of other free speech issues into the filter, right?
Yes. A politician who doesn't stand on "principle", but rather is willing to change his views based on changing circumstances is one to be celebrated.
And you surely realise that Fielding went quiet on the filter after his own anti-abortion sponser's website "somehow" made it onto Conroy's blacklist, right?
Fielding didn't go quiet so much as shift emphasis. He still supports it.
And now, surprise, surprise, Conroy has shelved the filter and Labor no longer have an official policy on the issue. Maybe, just maybe, that's because the filter has already served it's purpose?
Or maybe because, along with the shelved ETS that was supposed to be the great moral challenge of our time, the scrapped insulation scheme and the other 41 bills rejected by the senate that are shelved in all but name, Rudd is clearing the legislative decks of controversial policies for the upcoming election?
err, you got the Upper & Lower the wrong way around. And remember you have options such as voting for independents and directing preferences; the Greens are partly to blame for blocking the ETS because it didn't go far enough rather than working to improve it, which goes to show they're still very much an absolutist party.
We're lucky enough to have a system of Preference voting in Australia - whole in 90% of electorates it boils down to Labor vs Coalition for a representative, you can still express your dissatisfaction by directing preferences rather than voting directly for Labor. It indicates a swing against the party in their "primary vote" and if enough people around you do the same you'll push your electorate to a marginal, getting it that extra special attention.
And remember you can balance it out with a vote for an independent in the Senate - Senator Xenophon is a positive example of a non-party independent who made it. (Of course, you could always end up with a Fielding and his fledgling Family First, but again, preferences!). If it's a double dissolution, the Senate is wide open and every vote counts since it's proportional representation.
is it really a democracy as democracy is defined - if the parties rule, what do you call it?
Uh, democracy as we've got it is representative, for the simple fact of expedience - if we asked for people to vote on every matter of legislation, we'd get nowhere. And the "parties rule" mode of democracy we have in Australia is the Westminster system; it's worked for a fair while in a fair number of places.
Maybe from Germany (you know when),
I'm sorry, did you just Godwin a debate on internet censorship? You don't need to refer to the Nazis to provide examples of abhorrent internet censorship - just say the filter would put us in the same basket as China and Iran, right now, no need to refer to the past.
Of course if Australia votes them in again, they'll say they have a mandate for this filter but the opposition is pretty much a joke. *Sigh*
Not if they don't have a majority in the Senate - while that leads to frustrating inaction on some fronts, the best advice here is to vote for a local member whose individual or party policies best reflect the interests of the local community, and then ensure that you don't vote for the same party as your primary vote in the Senate, or only do so if you're clear that you want to go with that party's whole platform.
Get more independents like Senator Xenophon in there and we'll get some accountability and independent questioning of policies.
The Dutch have had them for a couple of years, so there's at least some precedent and any issues they encounter are likely to give a 4 - 5 year heads up to this initiative.
Seriously? You think this is the climate change guys trolling? Why doesn't it suggest a polluter who wants to go back to the cheap & dirty way of doing things?
Eh? Music Players like the Zune? They're not even selling that outside the US, to show how much confidence they have in it.
And the Xbox is competing only with the PS3; the Wii has blown both away for "this generation" of consoles, despite being hardware essentially from the previous "generation", and the Red Ring o' Death issues go without saying. Hardly something I'd hold up as something they're best at.
A higher DPI makes for some ultra-smooth fonts and allows for detailed images, but only if the moron creating content didn't decide to do everything in pixels.
There are these things called "pictures", "images" or "photos" that some "morons" creating content like to use... they tend to be measured in pixels, and you know what, the "morons" decide they need to link their content to these "picture" things for something called "aesthetics".
Practically speaking, DPI independence is hard as soon as you leave the world of text and generated graphical elements; making a case for designing to support both average and high res displays is a difficult one given effort vs expected return/utility.
+1 Interesting here, though it's an open question as to whether Google will want to be publicly seen to be supporting that work. I can see things heading that way fast should Apple further antagonise Google though.
1. The iPhone's base OS might have once-upon-a-time had a different UI to everything else out there, but it no longer does, and in many ways is behind the innovation demonstrated in Android, Palm WebOS and Windows Phone 7. Would it kill to have calendar information viewable on the lock screen, for instance? 2. Once you're in an app, the app's UI takes over the whole operation, and it's only through guidelines and library-assisted developers that we have similarities between apps. The clearest example is virtually any game, each of which adapts a different UI and semantics to the user interactions. Guess what: users adapt & learn pretty damn quick. It's an insult to the intelligence of Apple's customers to suggest that they would get confused by a UI which doesn't follow Apple's vaunted conventions.
But what about apps that don't fully use iPhone's features because it is catering for the lowest common denominator across multiple platforms?
What?! Don't "fully use" the iPhone's features?! What on earth are you on about? Does iFart "fully use iPhone's features"?
So what if an app doesn't "fully use iPhone features", as long as it provides adequate functionality? Consistency across devices is also laudable for the ease of transition from one platform to another. But that assumption works only in a world where competition drives innovation rather than hostility.
It is perfectly reasonable to want fewer high-quality apps on the platform, rather than wishing for more crap apps. This just aligns with the usual Apple approach.
Who are you to determine what is "quality"? Or for that matter, who is Apple to determine what its users will be happy with? There's plenty of junk on the App Store already, so it's not like they're making value judgements on the functionality of the apps, but are far more interested in ensuring they control the end to end process. Too much control can choke off a platform, too.
(disclaimer: current iPhone user, increasingly disillusioned)
To be fair to OP, an app which supports generic POP/IMAP/Exchange/what-have-you might be necessary for accounts that don't have web mail access, e.g. a self-hosted mail server.
The Droid was released on November 6th, not January, the month which the OP was discussing the "sales rate".
Not sure where you jumped to the fanboy conclusion, as I was attacking the falsity of a "sales rate" by contrasting it with a recently released product for which I knew the day-one sales.
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Yeah but just imagine a turkey spread... turkeyed on the presidential seal.
I'm just sayin'.
No matter all the R&D you do, there's nothing quite like actually putting a full-size version out there and using it in earnest. That provides real and useful data that you don't get when you're just experimenting, and feeds back into the next generation.
For that matter, it's not like it's a totally unknown and unproven technology being/has been deployed in Texas or Cape Wind - the Europeans have had these for a few years. If you're going to wait until you have the "perfect" design you're going to be a while.
Umm, you do realise that Xenophon was elected on an anti-gambling platform and initially joined forces with Fielding to push Labor into introducing a mandatory filter that would block gambling sites in exchange for their votes on other issues before the senate, right?
Yes. That was his platform, that's what the people of SA voted in, and that was his pejorative to negotiate. The reality of representative democracy is that negotiations bring out a compromise agreement that you might not agree with, but that's where you can contact your MP or those in a negotiating position to try to sway them.
You also realise that Xenophon changed his stance on the filter after Conroy dragged all sorts of other free speech issues into the filter, right?
Yes. A politician who doesn't stand on "principle", but rather is willing to change his views based on changing circumstances is one to be celebrated.
And you surely realise that Fielding went quiet on the filter after his own anti-abortion sponser's website "somehow" made it onto Conroy's blacklist, right?
Fielding didn't go quiet so much as shift emphasis. He still supports it.
And now, surprise, surprise, Conroy has shelved the filter and Labor no longer have an official policy on the issue. Maybe, just maybe, that's because the filter has already served it's purpose?
Or maybe because, along with the shelved ETS that was supposed to be the great moral challenge of our time, the scrapped insulation scheme and the other 41 bills rejected by the senate that are shelved in all but name, Rudd is clearing the legislative decks of controversial policies for the upcoming election?
err, you got the Upper & Lower the wrong way around. And remember you have options such as voting for independents and directing preferences; the Greens are partly to blame for blocking the ETS because it didn't go far enough rather than working to improve it, which goes to show they're still very much an absolutist party.
TFA is published by a Murdoch newspaper, so you can imagine where the bias is.
We're lucky enough to have a system of Preference voting in Australia - whole in 90% of electorates it boils down to Labor vs Coalition for a representative, you can still express your dissatisfaction by directing preferences rather than voting directly for Labor. It indicates a swing against the party in their "primary vote" and if enough people around you do the same you'll push your electorate to a marginal, getting it that extra special attention.
And remember you can balance it out with a vote for an independent in the Senate - Senator Xenophon is a positive example of a non-party independent who made it. (Of course, you could always end up with a Fielding and his fledgling Family First, but again, preferences!). If it's a double dissolution, the Senate is wide open and every vote counts since it's proportional representation.
is it really a democracy as democracy is defined - if the parties rule, what do you call it?
Uh, democracy as we've got it is representative, for the simple fact of expedience - if we asked for people to vote on every matter of legislation, we'd get nowhere. And the "parties rule" mode of democracy we have in Australia is the Westminster system; it's worked for a fair while in a fair number of places.
Maybe from Germany (you know when),
I'm sorry, did you just Godwin a debate on internet censorship? You don't need to refer to the Nazis to provide examples of abhorrent internet censorship - just say the filter would put us in the same basket as China and Iran, right now, no need to refer to the past.
Of course if Australia votes them in again, they'll say they have a mandate for this filter but the opposition is pretty much a joke. *Sigh*
Not if they don't have a majority in the Senate - while that leads to frustrating inaction on some fronts, the best advice here is to vote for a local member whose individual or party policies best reflect the interests of the local community, and then ensure that you don't vote for the same party as your primary vote in the Senate, or only do so if you're clear that you want to go with that party's whole platform.
Get more independents like Senator Xenophon in there and we'll get some accountability and independent questioning of policies.
(Multi-)Touch, on the other hand, is very limited in terms of use in anything creative.
Buh? Heard of Brushes? Used for, y'know, a New Yorker cover or two?
Basically, it's made up of two separate words -
"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery...
Well, I don't know about "ind", but for mank:
mank
1. (British, slang) disgusting, repulsive
When he eats, he never closes his mouth. It's so mank
Standing up to the salt air may be an issue.
The Dutch have had them for a couple of years, so there's at least some precedent and any issues they encounter are likely to give a 4 - 5 year heads up to this initiative.
Dammit, mod points! Informative and Insightful both.
Seriously? You think this is the climate change guys trolling? Why doesn't it suggest a polluter who wants to go back to the cheap & dirty way of doing things?
Eh? Music Players like the Zune? They're not even selling that outside the US, to show how much confidence they have in it.
And the Xbox is competing only with the PS3; the Wii has blown both away for "this generation" of consoles, despite being hardware essentially from the previous "generation", and the Red Ring o' Death issues go without saying. Hardly something I'd hold up as something they're best at.
A higher DPI makes for some ultra-smooth fonts and allows for detailed images, but only if the moron creating content didn't decide to do everything in pixels.
There are these things called "pictures", "images" or "photos" that some "morons" creating content like to use... they tend to be measured in pixels, and you know what, the "morons" decide they need to link their content to these "picture" things for something called "aesthetics".
Practically speaking, DPI independence is hard as soon as you leave the world of text and generated graphical elements; making a case for designing to support both average and high res displays is a difficult one given effort vs expected return/utility.
0.66666667. That's closer to 0.67 than 0.66, and 0.67 * 206 = 138.02.
You'd suspect that engine technology would develop very fast if that were to be the case...
to Airbus or Boeing, the limits of flying through an ash cloud might just be a major selling point.
Actually, it'd be far more relevant to Rolls Royce, GE Aviation, Pratt & Whitney and the like.
To summarise your argument: This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things.
A "wiki for Australian technology" already exists in a way, though mostly focused on the internet: it's the Whirlpool.net Wiki. Brilliant resource.
+1 Interesting here, though it's an open question as to whether Google will want to be publicly seen to be supporting that work. I can see things heading that way fast should Apple further antagonise Google though.
Two points:
1. The iPhone's base OS might have once-upon-a-time had a different UI to everything else out there, but it no longer does, and in many ways is behind the innovation demonstrated in Android, Palm WebOS and Windows Phone 7. Would it kill to have calendar information viewable on the lock screen, for instance?
2. Once you're in an app, the app's UI takes over the whole operation, and it's only through guidelines and library-assisted developers that we have similarities between apps. The clearest example is virtually any game, each of which adapts a different UI and semantics to the user interactions. Guess what: users adapt & learn pretty damn quick. It's an insult to the intelligence of Apple's customers to suggest that they would get confused by a UI which doesn't follow Apple's vaunted conventions.
But what about apps that don't fully use iPhone's features because it is catering for the lowest common denominator across multiple platforms?
What?! Don't "fully use" the iPhone's features?! What on earth are you on about? Does iFart "fully use iPhone's features"?
So what if an app doesn't "fully use iPhone features", as long as it provides adequate functionality? Consistency across devices is also laudable for the ease of transition from one platform to another. But that assumption works only in a world where competition drives innovation rather than hostility.
It is perfectly reasonable to want fewer high-quality apps on the platform, rather than wishing for more crap apps. This just aligns with the usual Apple approach.
Who are you to determine what is "quality"? Or for that matter, who is Apple to determine what its users will be happy with? There's plenty of junk on the App Store already, so it's not like they're making value judgements on the functionality of the apps, but are far more interested in ensuring they control the end to end process. Too much control can choke off a platform, too.
(disclaimer: current iPhone user, increasingly disillusioned)
To be fair to OP, an app which supports generic POP/IMAP/Exchange/what-have-you might be necessary for accounts that don't have web mail access, e.g. a self-hosted mail server.
The Droid was released on November 6th, not January, the month which the OP was discussing the "sales rate".
Not sure where you jumped to the fanboy conclusion, as I was attacking the falsity of a "sales rate" by contrasting it with a recently released product for which I knew the day-one sales.