The handful of places I've seen the countdown for the walk signal I've really liked it. It'd definitely make even more sense for drivers. Particularly when you're driving someplace you're not familiar with. With a yellow light there's no way of knowing whether it's safer to slam on the breaks or try and get through the light. A few seconds can really make a difference and a timer would make that decision more clear.
Sadly my experience so far is that cities like to spend money on making driving even less intuitive. Here we've spent tons of money replacing a simple and intuitive system for yielding when turning left with one that no one understands. I've seen people sit through almost an entire light cycle totally confused about whether they could go... I'm not holding my breath for nifty yellow light timers.
The whole system is broken. Police should never see any of the money they get for drug busts. Cities should never see any money for parking enforcement, red light cameras, etc. All of that money should be evenly divided between all of the tax payers and given back. It's the only way to prevent corruption. Even if you move the money to some other program, like schools, you'll inevitably end up with some kind of magic accounting that shuffles the money around.
It'll probably only add up to a few bucks per person but the idea here isn't to reimburse people. It's to stop the government from engineering those crime prevention tools into sources of income.
Wtf do you need all those knives for? What're you some kind of sick animal killer or something? Why do you have 10 steak knives? Do you really know 10 people that are going to come and eat with you? etc, etc...
The whole situation is nuts. Taxing weapons works about as well as making drugs illegal. The people that want them just keep getting them illegally. Silly legislation and taxes will make no difference.
I have vented a lot of rage playing video games. I'm not saying I'd go stab someone if I couldn't, but I probably would have found myself making more personally destructive choices instead. Everyone gets angry; everyone needs a way to deal with it. Video games a harmless outlet. If the crazies are content killing virtual people rather than real ones I don't see why we'd want to mess that up.
The simple solution is to convince all attackers to begin using news microphones as clubs rather than knives. The media / political machine can choose between banning their own instruments or shutting up. Either way, hilarity will ensue.
Sounds like we had a perfect format in the optical disc - now we just need audio engineers that don't fuck up the mastering with everything cranked to 11.
Yes please! I'm hoping that as more and more artists go independent we'll see fewer and fewer of these horribly mastered CDs. I have a volume knob on my stereo. I don't need you to destroy the music to make it louder for me.
My first experience with MP3 was before I even had a 56k modem. By the time Napster came along MP3s were old news to me. I do remember initially being entranced by the idea of being able to download a song in a half hour or so for free. Of course, back then you actually had to surf around the net and find sites where people had posted a random assortment of MP3s they liked and wanted to share.
Back then I was willing to take the hit on sound quality because of the novelty. (Free music didn't hurt either!) I've long since grown out of that and now I buy CDs and rip them in a lossless format. MP3 sounds like crap. I don't understand the people that actually pay for it. It was only worth it back then because it was free and novel.
People tend to prefer what they're used to. Witness building trends down in Florida. You get people building/buying cheap reproductions* of Northeastern style houses down there because that's what they prefer - despite that being a lousy way to build a house in Florida. As would the inverse of building a house suited for Florida in the North.
*IE missing the insulation, among other things
Wait, what? Now you've piqued my interest. How is no insulation a standard / good building practice in the NE? It seems to me that they have winters that are just as harsh as Florida's summers. Either way, you need insulation to prevent your house from being the same temperature as it is outside...
Indeed. The changes to copyright law have pretty obviously been made solely to benefit huge corporations. Dead authors, musicians, artists, etc don't see any benefit from it - they're dead.
The entire idea is to give people a way to protect their source of income while they labor to create more stuff. If it takes you more than 10 years (off the top of my head) to create something else that people are willing to pay for then you should find yourself a new career.
Yep, one drop from about 2 feet up spelled the end of an old laptop's LCD. Lesson learned? If kids start trying to do laps around your laptop / projector combo just slap 'em silly until they quit. Keep 'em off your lawn too.
I don't think we're discussing open vs closed source here. I think we're talking open vs closed market. The problem is Apple is a giant filter that limits what is allowed to be sold in the App Store. These people want to be able to write and sell anything they like. The trouble is that Apple just won't let them do it.
I've had similar troubles. We ordered a bunch of thumbdrives and had them come in two different boxes. About 2/3 in one and the other third in another. The problem was, they all could have easily fit in one box - with gobs of room to spare. Good job shippers!
While the idea of a display item doing the advertising and the real product being sold in plain boxes sounds like it would work, it becomes very hard to embellish on your product without outside packing.
IKEA does just fine. You cruise through and figure out what you like and then pick up the plainly packed boxes at the end. Granted not all stores would want to go to this extreme, but you could easily have aisles with displays on top and cardboard boxes containing the item below. Similar to the way shoes are stored and displayed.
Yeah, this entire thing just sounds like FUD. Granted CMS's are the way to go for content updates but but unless you're a mom and pop shop you don't want to stick with a template... and that means hiring a designer... and that means using design tools.
CMS is just a fancy way of saying, "Keep the secretaries out of the friggin' HTML because they always screw it up." Handing Dreamweaver over to someone with no experience was always a joke.
Dreamweaver is a great tool. I've been using it almost since it came out. (It and Future Splash, a.k.a Flash.) I've never used the "designer" type tools in dreamweaver. I've always seen it as a really powerful development environment for building sites. The Site concept and integrated FTP / server management are great. Code hints are obviously convenient and I've always appreciated how granular the code coloring / formatting is. The CSS tools are invaluable for tracking down those times when things are cascading a bit differently than you'd like. I'm also a huge fan of the search / replace tools in Dreamweaver for refactoring. The ability to scan across a selection, open document, all open documents, or an entire site is really handy. I realize text editors have similar abilities but the Site concept makes scanning across countless directories a no-brainer.
There's gobs more but those are the first things that come to mind.
Where is "+1 The Sad Truth" when you need it? Legislation requiring future bills to be "about one thing" or some sort of legislation allowing us to see exactly who put what in there when has been overdue a long time. (Yes, that sentence is a train wreck. It's early.)
Someone needs some bail-out money reaal fast. Too bad the hookers and pimps didn't pay their protection money and now you've got to sue the interwebz for ruining your business.
Sounds about right. It's as if chat forums, bulletin boards, and even the regular classifieds in the newspaper hadn't been used for this purpose for *years*.
Oh, I think I know what you're talking about. I think I saw a discussion of that here. I'm pretty sure that's it. Yeah, that's obvious evidence that he was.
Let's explore why that is... Here's a clue - England is just a bit smaller than Oregon. The population is much denser. England has 60 million people. Oregon has about 3 million. In the same amount of space. You can set up an infrastructure for the whole country with the same resources that it takes here in America to cover ONE STATE and you can reach far, far more customers doing it.
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The handful of places I've seen the countdown for the walk signal I've really liked it. It'd definitely make even more sense for drivers. Particularly when you're driving someplace you're not familiar with. With a yellow light there's no way of knowing whether it's safer to slam on the breaks or try and get through the light. A few seconds can really make a difference and a timer would make that decision more clear.
Sadly my experience so far is that cities like to spend money on making driving even less intuitive. Here we've spent tons of money replacing a simple and intuitive system for yielding when turning left with one that no one understands. I've seen people sit through almost an entire light cycle totally confused about whether they could go... I'm not holding my breath for nifty yellow light timers.
The whole system is broken. Police should never see any of the money they get for drug busts. Cities should never see any money for parking enforcement, red light cameras, etc. All of that money should be evenly divided between all of the tax payers and given back. It's the only way to prevent corruption. Even if you move the money to some other program, like schools, you'll inevitably end up with some kind of magic accounting that shuffles the money around.
It'll probably only add up to a few bucks per person but the idea here isn't to reimburse people. It's to stop the government from engineering those crime prevention tools into sources of income.
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Wtf do you need all those knives for? What're you some kind of sick animal killer or something? Why do you have 10 steak knives? Do you really know 10 people that are going to come and eat with you? etc, etc...
The whole situation is nuts. Taxing weapons works about as well as making drugs illegal. The people that want them just keep getting them illegally. Silly legislation and taxes will make no difference.
I have vented a lot of rage playing video games. I'm not saying I'd go stab someone if I couldn't, but I probably would have found myself making more personally destructive choices instead. Everyone gets angry; everyone needs a way to deal with it. Video games a harmless outlet. If the crazies are content killing virtual people rather than real ones I don't see why we'd want to mess that up.
The simple solution is to convince all attackers to begin using news microphones as clubs rather than knives. The media / political machine can choose between banning their own instruments or shutting up. Either way, hilarity will ensue.
Sounds like we had a perfect format in the optical disc - now we just need audio engineers that don't fuck up the mastering with everything cranked to 11.
Yes please! I'm hoping that as more and more artists go independent we'll see fewer and fewer of these horribly mastered CDs. I have a volume knob on my stereo. I don't need you to destroy the music to make it louder for me.
My first experience with MP3 was before I even had a 56k modem. By the time Napster came along MP3s were old news to me. I do remember initially being entranced by the idea of being able to download a song in a half hour or so for free. Of course, back then you actually had to surf around the net and find sites where people had posted a random assortment of MP3s they liked and wanted to share.
Back then I was willing to take the hit on sound quality because of the novelty. (Free music didn't hurt either!) I've long since grown out of that and now I buy CDs and rip them in a lossless format. MP3 sounds like crap. I don't understand the people that actually pay for it. It was only worth it back then because it was free and novel.
People tend to prefer what they're used to. Witness building trends down in Florida. You get people building/buying cheap reproductions* of Northeastern style houses down there because that's what they prefer - despite that being a lousy way to build a house in Florida. As would the inverse of building a house suited for Florida in the North.
*IE missing the insulation, among other things
Wait, what? Now you've piqued my interest. How is no insulation a standard / good building practice in the NE? It seems to me that they have winters that are just as harsh as Florida's summers. Either way, you need insulation to prevent your house from being the same temperature as it is outside...
Indeed. The changes to copyright law have pretty obviously been made solely to benefit huge corporations. Dead authors, musicians, artists, etc don't see any benefit from it - they're dead.
The entire idea is to give people a way to protect their source of income while they labor to create more stuff. If it takes you more than 10 years (off the top of my head) to create something else that people are willing to pay for then you should find yourself a new career.
Yep, one drop from about 2 feet up spelled the end of an old laptop's LCD. Lesson learned? If kids start trying to do laps around your laptop / projector combo just slap 'em silly until they quit. Keep 'em off your lawn too.
I don't think we're discussing open vs closed source here. I think we're talking open vs closed market. The problem is Apple is a giant filter that limits what is allowed to be sold in the App Store. These people want to be able to write and sell anything they like. The trouble is that Apple just won't let them do it.
This sounds like a classic case of Robot CP. This robot doesn't even look more than 10 years old. This must be stopped. Think of the children!
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I've had similar troubles. We ordered a bunch of thumbdrives and had them come in two different boxes. About 2/3 in one and the other third in another. The problem was, they all could have easily fit in one box - with gobs of room to spare. Good job shippers!
While the idea of a display item doing the advertising and the real product being sold in plain boxes sounds like it would work, it becomes very hard to embellish on your product without outside packing.
IKEA does just fine. You cruise through and figure out what you like and then pick up the plainly packed boxes at the end. Granted not all stores would want to go to this extreme, but you could easily have aisles with displays on top and cardboard boxes containing the item below. Similar to the way shoes are stored and displayed.
Yeah, this entire thing just sounds like FUD. Granted CMS's are the way to go for content updates but but unless you're a mom and pop shop you don't want to stick with a template... and that means hiring a designer... and that means using design tools.
CMS is just a fancy way of saying, "Keep the secretaries out of the friggin' HTML because they always screw it up." Handing Dreamweaver over to someone with no experience was always a joke.
Dreamweaver is a great tool. I've been using it almost since it came out. (It and Future Splash, a.k.a Flash.) I've never used the "designer" type tools in dreamweaver. I've always seen it as a really powerful development environment for building sites. The Site concept and integrated FTP / server management are great. Code hints are obviously convenient and I've always appreciated how granular the code coloring / formatting is. The CSS tools are invaluable for tracking down those times when things are cascading a bit differently than you'd like. I'm also a huge fan of the search / replace tools in Dreamweaver for refactoring. The ability to scan across a selection, open document, all open documents, or an entire site is really handy. I realize text editors have similar abilities but the Site concept makes scanning across countless directories a no-brainer.
There's gobs more but those are the first things that come to mind.
Where is "+1 The Sad Truth" when you need it? Legislation requiring future bills to be "about one thing" or some sort of legislation allowing us to see exactly who put what in there when has been overdue a long time. (Yes, that sentence is a train wreck. It's early.)
Someone needs some bail-out money reaal fast. Too bad the hookers and pimps didn't pay their protection money and now you've got to sue the interwebz for ruining your business.
Sounds about right. It's as if chat forums, bulletin boards, and even the regular classifieds in the newspaper hadn't been used for this purpose for *years*.
That and the countless STDs.
Oh, I think I know what you're talking about. I think I saw a discussion of that here. I'm pretty sure that's it. Yeah, that's obvious evidence that he was.
No one will ever need more than 8 characters for a file name...
Let's explore why that is... Here's a clue - England is just a bit smaller than Oregon. The population is much denser. England has 60 million people. Oregon has about 3 million. In the same amount of space. You can set up an infrastructure for the whole country with the same resources that it takes here in America to cover ONE STATE and you can reach far, far more customers doing it.