I find the change of the tab design to be going backwards in UI design.
Crossing lines between tabs to give them a trapezoidal look is not necessarily wider than having a straight line between them. If you look closely at the example comparison images, there is not more spacing between the icon and the tab border in the new design except for maybe a single pixel or two. It just appears that that the trapezoidal tabs are wider -- and that is a good thing: The crossing lines make the tabs more distinguishable.
The reduction of contrast of elements makes it only more difficult to see what is what; that an element is clickable or distinct at all. I find the image with many tabs open and no visible separation between them to be laughable, to be honest.
A crime against good UI design that Google seems persistent in introducing everywhere is the close button that does not appear until the mouse is hovering over it. It appears as if the new tab design has this "feature" too. You may think that you are selecting an item, but then the close button appears as you are clicking it and the item disappears before you have time to react. In some instances on Google web sites, there is no undo functionality to get that item back. If there had been only a small delay from hover to close then that would not have happened. But better is often to always have the close button there so that you could always know what is going on and be able to delete items quickly.
BTW. I wish there was a "Sarcasm" option to select when I moderate. Now, I had moderated the parent post as "Funny" but the notion disappeared, and it looks as if a moderator agreed with the actual words in the post. The only way to undo moderation is to post... which I do now.
Where I live, the practice is that if the restaurant has a sign by the door that they accept only credit/debit cards and you still enter and order, then that counts as a "preexisting agreement" that you are supposed to pay with card.
That's legal wrangling for you but does not work with human behaviour. People miss those signs all the time.
I think that phones could definitely become safer, not just through better education in how to use them but also through how the phone interacts with the user. This is something that Apple, Google (and others makers of "Smartphone" OS:es) could do better.
For instance, if a phone detects movement it should either require that a handsfree/sync is connected or ask for confirmation that the user is not driving a vehicle. Make the exception an app entitlement and approve for your app store only those where that entitlement makes sense.
Indeed. I once visited a company that makes audio codecs for Apple and other cellphone manufacturers. There I learned that the tiny cellphone speakers are normally driven higher than what they were designed for. Modern audio codecs modify the signals (i.e. reduce audio quality) to counter the distortion and to keep the speakers from breaking before their planned obsolescence.
Radio waves have been used to promote wound healing. It was mentioned in the earlier thread discussing the pre-publication draft of this study.
I know of a study in which simulated cell phones were shown to promote the frequency and growth of tumours in mice that had been deliberately given cancer. That study confirms an earlier study. What would make this more credible is that this group's job in general has been to replicate junk science about RF to prove it wrong. The point here is that small tumours that have been caused by other sources than cell phones are more likely to survive the onslaught of the body's immune system and be able to grow to become life-threatening.
I'm just posting these here for further discussion. I'm not a physician or biologist myself, and not a kook either. So don't shoot the messenger, OK?! Do let those who are knowledgeable enough to comment something useful comment instead.
Yes, but the previous time the discussion was premature as it was in reference to a draft of the report of the study that somehow had been leaked to alarmist media.
What I found the most interesting in these benchmarks however is how much faster the Asus Tinkerboard is. It also has four ARM cores and clocked at 1.8 GHz (a third faster) but is several times faster than the Raspberry Pi B+ in some CPU benchmarks. The difference is that the Tinkerboard's CPU cores are running out-of-order while the Raspberry Pi B+'s A53 cores run in-order.
Other than that, the A53 is capable of running 64-bit ARM code which is supposed to be faster than the corresponding 32-bit code. These tests were run on Raspbian however, which does still not have support for 64-bit code.
I live in a country with hard gun control, and I am all for gun control but I am also a nerd who loves movies and history.
These past few weeks I have been building myself a replica of Deckard's blaster gun from Blade Runner -- my favourite props from one of my all-time favourite films. I have been modifying a water pistol to look more like the real thing, which had been cobbled together from a revolver and a rifle. I have watched a bunch of disassembly videos on Youtube recently and they have been very helpful in showing details of the revolver and rifle and how they work. I'm fine with being restricted to replica parts, because I don't want a real gun around my house anyway. A couple of years ago, I built Han Solo's blaster from Star Wars and was similarly helped by videos on Youtube on the historic Mauser C96 pistol. Through recommendations on Youtube, I have been led to several channels that show the history of firearms. It has been very interesting.
I think that what is most dangerous is not the firearms themselves but bad attitude around gun violence. I believe that revenge-movies are especially harmful. If Youtube is going to be consistent, they should ban all videos of guns being used -- including movie trailers. There is a remake of the revenge-movie Death Wish coming up. Ban that from Youtube, and we can talk.
You should get together, choose one (or a group) of you to be your representative and tell that person your salaries. If you live in any sane country, then the employer would be obliged to negotiate with your representative about minimum pay for different positions and equal pay between genders, as well as about other issues such as work climate, stress levels etc.
Yes, I'm talking about a trade union. It is not uncalled for for higher-paid white-collar occupations either, where people could be just as stressed out as in other disciplines. I'm surprised this hasn't even been mentioned yet.
The i386 never ran faster than 40 MHz and the ARM chips at the time were already faster per clock while drawing less power.
The SoC in the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ has four 64-bit ARM cores running at 1.4 GHz, albeit in-order. This is 200 MHz more than the previous Raspberry Pi 3 B (non-plus).
So? Many otherwise open-plan offices I have worked at in the last decade use to have small rooms for small meetings (such as Scrum), special projects and phone calls. These were not products dropped into the "landscape"; these had been part of the office's interior design from the start when it had been planned.
You do not have phone calls out in the open shared space -- that is just common sense. Too bad that not enough people have it.
I think "keyboard sleeve" is the term that it is sold as. ... and there exist of course third-party keyboard sleeves for multiple types of Apple chiclet keyboards already.
And yes, as a keyboard collector and enthusiast I have seen (and owned) several examples of prior art with the dust/water-protecting membrane between mechanical key switch and hard keycap surface. None of those were scissor switches though but that should not matter -- The scissors do not affect the protection scheme. I have not read the application with a fine-toothed comb but it looks to me like it is not original enough.
Have you ever tried one of those "rollable" silicone keyboards? Those are horrible to use. There is no stability in the keys, and when you try to press one it wants to move your finger to the side.
There are however also splash-proof keyboards where there is a regular keyboard underneath a flexible membrane. Those have much better feel and accuracy. BTW, the keyboard that comes with this machine looks like a membrane keyboard, but I suspect that it could be a touch pad.
I live in Northern Europe where we have a lot of snow parts of the year and where many medium-sized streets have bike lanes on the pavements. If it has snowed so much that you can't ride a bike then it is enough that that snow must be plowed away for cars and pedestrians. That snow is usually shuffled to the sides of the road, up onto the walking lane on the pavement. The bike-lanes are turned into lanes for walking and the width of the car lanes remains unchanged.
So... If there hadn't been any bike lanes then either the pedestrian lanes would have had been sacrificed or there would have been less road-width for cars... or the snow would have had to be moved away at an incredible cost.
Vulkan, DirectX 12 and Metal are low-level APIs compared to OpenGL or DirectX 11. They remove aspects of hardware abstraction, exposing more of the structure of the hardware, allowing the resources to be used more efficiently.
The downside is that they are harder to write software for. Most games are running on top of a ready-made game engine anyway and that could have been targeted to the low-level API.
Vulkan is the successor to AMD's proprietary Mantle API which is now deprecated in favour of Vulkan. That Wikipedia article mentions how Mantle is different to OpenGL and I think most of those points apply to Vulkan as well.
I use EFF's Privacy Badger plugin, which automatically blocks web sites that it has detected to track me. Ads on web sites that respect users' privacy are still visible. If their web site uses ad-networks that tracks visitors and those ads are blocked as a result then that is the site owner's fault -- and the site deserves to get those ads blocked!
Absolutely. Google is already indexing images by how similar they are to other images. They could therefore filter away images that they have found on one of their blocked sites - or better: redirect to the original site, which in this case would be Getty Images' site itself.
Often when you are searching for a particular photo that has been shared a lot, you want to find the original source anyway.
Meat that has been smoked (or cooked over an open flame) or cured with nitrites are well-known risk factors for stomach cancer and colorectal cancer.
Modern meat processing is now so clean and safe that nitrite is not needed to prevent botulism. In practice its only purpose is to give meat the reddish colour that consumers have got used to. The meat-processing industry claims that meat with a greyish colour does not sell.
Razer is not seen as "high-end" within the high-end keyboard community. Their mechanical keyboards would better be described as "entry-level" into the world of mechanical keyboards.
The build materials are cheap. They have gimmicky features. Most of all, their marketing is atrocious, misleading and often borderline fraudulent.
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He should have said it in a Free Speech Zone.
I find the change of the tab design to be going backwards in UI design.
Crossing lines between tabs to give them a trapezoidal look is not necessarily wider than having a straight line between them.
If you look closely at the example comparison images, there is not more spacing between the icon and the tab border in the new design except for maybe a single pixel or two.
It just appears that that the trapezoidal tabs are wider -- and that is a good thing: The crossing lines make the tabs more distinguishable.
The reduction of contrast of elements makes it only more difficult to see what is what; that an element is clickable or distinct at all.
I find the image with many tabs open and no visible separation between them to be laughable, to be honest.
A crime against good UI design that Google seems persistent in introducing everywhere is the close button that does not appear until the mouse is hovering over it. It appears as if the new tab design has this "feature" too.
You may think that you are selecting an item, but then the close button appears as you are clicking it and the item disappears before you have time to react. In some instances on Google web sites, there is no undo functionality to get that item back.
If there had been only a small delay from hover to close then that would not have happened. But better is often to always have the close button there so that you could always know what is going on and be able to delete items quickly.
The TFA is incomplete. There are several more small changes.
You can see them in Ars Technica's article.
BTW. I wish there was a "Sarcasm" option to select when I moderate.
Now, I had moderated the parent post as "Funny" but the notion disappeared, and it looks as if a moderator agreed with the actual words in the post. The only way to undo moderation is to post... which I do now.
Where I live, the practice is that if the restaurant has a sign by the door that they accept only credit/debit cards and you still enter and order, then that counts as a "preexisting agreement" that you are supposed to pay with card.
That's legal wrangling for you but does not work with human behaviour. People miss those signs all the time.
I think that phones could definitely become safer, not just through better education in how to use them but also through how the phone interacts with the user.
This is something that Apple, Google (and others makers of "Smartphone" OS:es) could do better.
For instance, if a phone detects movement it should either require that a handsfree/sync is connected or ask for confirmation that the user is not driving a vehicle.
Make the exception an app entitlement and approve for your app store only those where that entitlement makes sense.
Indeed. I once visited a company that makes audio codecs for Apple and other cellphone manufacturers. There I learned that the tiny cellphone speakers are normally driven higher than what they were designed for. Modern audio codecs modify the signals (i.e. reduce audio quality) to counter the distortion and to keep the speakers from breaking before their planned obsolescence.
Corsair on Youtube: Stop GPU abuse. #GPURESCUE
That would make sense, actually ...
Radio waves have been used to promote wound healing. It was mentioned in the earlier thread discussing the pre-publication draft of this study.
I know of a study in which simulated cell phones were shown to promote the frequency and growth of tumours in mice that had been deliberately given cancer. That study confirms an earlier study. What would make this more credible is that this group's job in general has been to replicate junk science about RF to prove it wrong.
The point here is that small tumours that have been caused by other sources than cell phones are more likely to survive the onslaught of the body's immune system and be able to grow to become life-threatening.
I'm just posting these here for further discussion. I'm not a physician or biologist myself, and not a kook either. So don't shoot the messenger, OK?! Do let those who are knowledgeable enough to comment something useful comment instead.
Yes, but the previous time the discussion was premature as it was in reference to a draft of the report of the study that somehow had been leaked to alarmist media.
What I found the most interesting in these benchmarks however is how much faster the Asus Tinkerboard is.
It also has four ARM cores and clocked at 1.8 GHz (a third faster) but is several times faster than the Raspberry Pi B+ in some CPU benchmarks. The difference is that the Tinkerboard's CPU cores are running out-of-order while the Raspberry Pi B+'s A53 cores run in-order.
Other than that, the A53 is capable of running 64-bit ARM code which is supposed to be faster than the corresponding 32-bit code.
These tests were run on Raspbian however, which does still not have support for 64-bit code.
I live in a country with hard gun control, and I am all for gun control but I am also a nerd who loves movies and history.
These past few weeks I have been building myself a replica of Deckard's blaster gun from Blade Runner -- my favourite props from one of my all-time favourite films. I have been modifying a water pistol to look more like the real thing, which had been cobbled together from a revolver and a rifle. I have watched a bunch of disassembly videos on Youtube recently and they have been very helpful in showing details of the revolver and rifle and how they work. I'm fine with being restricted to replica parts, because I don't want a real gun around my house anyway.
A couple of years ago, I built Han Solo's blaster from Star Wars and was similarly helped by videos on Youtube on the historic Mauser C96 pistol.
Through recommendations on Youtube, I have been led to several channels that show the history of firearms. It has been very interesting.
I think that what is most dangerous is not the firearms themselves but bad attitude around gun violence. I believe that revenge-movies are especially harmful.
If Youtube is going to be consistent, they should ban all videos of guns being used -- including movie trailers. There is a remake of the revenge-movie Death Wish coming up. Ban that from Youtube, and we can talk.
You should get together, choose one (or a group) of you to be your representative and tell that person your salaries.
If you live in any sane country, then the employer would be obliged to negotiate with your representative about minimum pay for different positions and equal pay between genders, as well as about other issues such as work climate, stress levels etc.
Yes, I'm talking about a trade union. It is not uncalled for for higher-paid white-collar occupations either, where people could be just as stressed out as in other disciplines. I'm surprised this hasn't even been mentioned yet.
The i386 never ran faster than 40 MHz and the ARM chips at the time were already faster per clock while drawing less power.
The SoC in the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ has four 64-bit ARM cores running at 1.4 GHz, albeit in-order. This is 200 MHz more than the previous Raspberry Pi 3 B (non-plus).
So? Many otherwise open-plan offices I have worked at in the last decade use to have small rooms for small meetings (such as Scrum), special projects and phone calls.
These were not products dropped into the "landscape"; these had been part of the office's interior design from the start when it had been planned.
You do not have phone calls out in the open shared space -- that is just common sense. Too bad that not enough people have it.
I think "keyboard sleeve" is the term that it is sold as.
... and there exist of course third-party keyboard sleeves for multiple types of Apple chiclet keyboards already.
And yes, as a keyboard collector and enthusiast I have seen (and owned) several examples of prior art with the dust/water-protecting membrane between mechanical key switch and hard keycap surface.
None of those were scissor switches though but that should not matter -- The scissors do not affect the protection scheme.
I have not read the application with a fine-toothed comb but it looks to me like it is not original enough.
Have you ever tried one of those "rollable" silicone keyboards? Those are horrible to use. There is no stability in the keys, and when you try to press one it wants to move your finger to the side.
There are however also splash-proof keyboards where there is a regular keyboard underneath a flexible membrane. Those have much better feel and accuracy.
BTW, the keyboard that comes with this machine looks like a membrane keyboard, but I suspect that it could be a touch pad.
I live in Northern Europe where we have a lot of snow parts of the year and where many medium-sized streets have bike lanes on the pavements.
If it has snowed so much that you can't ride a bike then it is enough that that snow must be plowed away for cars and pedestrians. That snow is usually shuffled to the sides of the road, up onto the walking lane on the pavement. The bike-lanes are turned into lanes for walking and the width of the car lanes remains unchanged.
So... If there hadn't been any bike lanes then either the pedestrian lanes would have had been sacrificed or there would have been less road-width for cars ... or the snow would have had to be moved away at an incredible cost.
There are still gains. Everything is relative. Remember, Intel's integrated graphics of today is good enough to run Crysis. ;)
Vulkan, DirectX 12 and Metal are low-level APIs compared to OpenGL or DirectX 11. They remove aspects of hardware abstraction, exposing more of the structure of the hardware, allowing the resources to be used more efficiently.
The downside is that they are harder to write software for. Most games are running on top of a ready-made game engine anyway and that could have been targeted to the low-level API.
Vulkan is the successor to AMD's proprietary Mantle API which is now deprecated in favour of Vulkan. That Wikipedia article mentions how Mantle is different to OpenGL and I think most of those points apply to Vulkan as well.
The new one does not have sliding contacts. The cover is just a piece of plastic.
The microphone is below the keypad in the main part.
I don't mind ads but I mind my privacy.
I use EFF's Privacy Badger plugin, which automatically blocks web sites that it has detected to track me.
Ads on web sites that respect users' privacy are still visible.
If their web site uses ad-networks that tracks visitors and those ads are blocked as a result then that is the site owner's fault -- and the site deserves to get those ads blocked!
Absolutely. Google is already indexing images by how similar they are to other images.
They could therefore filter away images that they have found on one of their blocked sites - or better: redirect to the original site, which in this case would be Getty Images' site itself.
Often when you are searching for a particular photo that has been shared a lot, you want to find the original source anyway.
Meat that has been smoked (or cooked over an open flame) or cured with nitrites are well-known risk factors for stomach cancer and colorectal cancer.
Modern meat processing is now so clean and safe that nitrite is not needed to prevent botulism. In practice its only purpose is to give meat the reddish colour that consumers have got used to. The meat-processing industry claims that meat with a greyish colour does not sell.
Razer is not seen as "high-end" within the high-end keyboard community.
Their mechanical keyboards would better be described as "entry-level" into the world of mechanical keyboards.
The build materials are cheap. They have gimmicky features.
Most of all, their marketing is atrocious, misleading and often borderline fraudulent.