Average IQ has actually been rising about 3% per decade since 1900, mainly due to lower levels of lead content in the bloodstream. It strikes me that getting rid of the rest of the lead paint out there would be cheaper than buying everyone a computer, and would have more scientific evidence to back it up.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
But note that once told that Gnome's logo was a foot, almost all of them immediately realized that it was analagous to the start menu. If Gnome were to become big in the desktop arena, then this problem would quickly go away.
That doesn't necessarily mean that something shouldn't be done to make it more obvious, but no matter what you do, no one's going to be able to guess what every single icon on the screen does just by looking at a screenshot.
My.sig is remarkably appropriate for this discussion...
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Has anyone read the whole series? Is it any good? I really liked the first three books, but my interest had sort of peaked 1/3 of the way through the 3rd book, and I never got past about page 50 in book 4. Is it worth going back?
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I think it only applies to those under 18, but it took effect maybe 3 years ago. My g/f just got her license 7 months ago, and it definately applied. Maybe it was highway driving rather than night driving you had to do several hours of, but I'm pretty damn sure it's law. I just barely scraped by, getting my license a month or two before it took effect.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Everyone who's watched Ferris Buller's Day Off knows that schools have kept attendance records on internet accessible computers since the 80's at least!
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Just got Outlook 2k! It's so great, in a not so great sort of way. Well, I'm actually at UBS PaineWebber, the American subsidiary of UBS Warburg.
As for the other guy, who thought the disclaimer was stupid, these brokers are not terribly computer savy, and so they frequently pass along things like I Love You to their huge several hundred person client lists. Without that disclaimer, UBS Warburg could potentially be liable for any damages caused (despite the fact that the recipient would have to be as stupid as the sender in order to get infected). They still could be, but if they can avoid liability, they will.
My views may not necessarily reflect those of UBS PaineWebber:)
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
The legal driving age hasn't been raised, but you now have to log scores of hours before you can take the test (including something like 10 hours of night driving). Then, once you get your license, you can't drive at night for 6 months! You also can't drive anyone in the car for 6 months. Then, for the six months following that, you can drive at night, and you can drive other people, but you can't drive other people at night.
As for the voting age bit, well, sure, it got lowered to 18 when the boomers were young, and I haven't heard of any big push to change it, so we're probably safe. But, who cares what the voting age is when 80% of the population is over 50 anyway? (Yes, I'm exaggerating slightly)
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
All she's saying is, she sees no difference between homosexuality, bestiality and incest, on a moral basis. Yet, we are supposed to consider the second two deviant and evil, but the first is now a right, and is holy and pure. Why? It's absolute doublethink.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I would agree. Putting the lawsuit aside, CDDB is not so bad. If they were our only option, I would not break down in tears. BUT, we do have a truly free option, so why bother? Just stick with the better one, and stop worrying about how evil CDDB may or many not be.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I'm not trying to say "we're there now." I'm just saying "look at where we are now, and project forward 10 years." Producing a lifelike still picture may just be a first step, but it's an important one.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Final Fantasy. I know a guy above me mentioned it, but let me add my $0.02. The girl was in some stupid guy magazine, and when CNN went around showing the picture (among a bunch of pictures of real models), and people couldn't pick which was the computer model. They didn't do any kind of scientific poll, but certainly there seemed to be a reasonable number of intelligent people (it wasn't like a bit on the Late Show or anything).
In 10 years, processing power will probably be some 32-64 times faster (to be on the conservative side of Moore's Law), and that by itself will allow almost unbelievable improvements in detail. I think his prediction is perfectly reasonable.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
That's like calling the federal government crazy because during the 1800's, instead of renting all land west of the original 13 colonies, they SOLD it! Well, duh. Can you imagine the mess if no one owned their property, and we were all just serfs in the employ of the Government?
Changing scarce goods from a common resource to private property almost always ensures that it will be used more efficiently. After all, if whoever bought it initially can't find a good use for it, he'll sell it to anyone who offers more money, so they can find one.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
There's actually a fair amount of scientific evidence to suggest that humans aren't built to be monogamous for life. In particular, women tend to be attracted to men who look much more masculine (read, stronger and healthier, but not so loving or caring) during the most fertile week of their cycle, and less so during the rest of the month. This suggests that women have evolved to try to reproduce with healthy, genetically viable men, and dupe their caring, provider mates into raising the children as their own.
Also, the chemicals your body releases during different stages of a relationship are different. During the first 6-ish weeks, you experience the so-called "falling in love" stage. This is also the period when you can't keep your hands off each other for longer than 30 seconds. After that, you move more into the "marital bliss" stage, where you're happy, but no longer as excited as you once were. Sometimes people cheat because they feel that initial rush again with someone else, and it makes the new interest look more appealing than the current partner.
Then there are people with problems, be they psychological problems or just the fact that they're assholes. These people will cheat for no reason at all, or for a reason that is totally incomprehensible to the outside world.
Really, your comment is just blaming the victim. Sometimes, yes, someone cheats because of neglect. It is by no means the usual case.
(Disclaimer: no, I have never been cheated on (to the best of my knowledge, obviously), I just hate it when people assume that someone who gets cheated on must have "done something wrong")
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Friendly bickering is not neccessarily a bad thing in a time of peace. After all, it allows new ideas to crop up that might not otherwise if everyone avoided making waves. If one person didn't object to something vehemently, then he wouldn't bother forming a splinter group to support his views. Thus, we would not have any of those competing projects mentioned above, or their progress would be retarded (as in slowed down) because of lack of focus.
I think, rather than being depressed by how we have a tendancy to compete with one another, we ought to be impressed by our ability to recognize when there is a threat that is larger than all of us.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Filing permitted in any language?
US: Yes
Japan: No
This is because America has no official language. In fact, in parts of Florida and California, Spanish is as or more important of a language than English. Likewise, in the backwoods of Louisiana, they use French. There is no requirement that English be used for anything, official or otherwise. I don't see why that's bad. If the majority of the population in an area speaks one language, why should they be required to file government documents in what is for them a foreign language?
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
DivX movies. Hell, I spent the extra money for 80 minute cdr, just to get an extra bit of space to encode 2 hour movies at a more watchable quality. On a 1.2 gig cd, it'd be damn near DVD quality!
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I want my money back. We WILL go to Mars, but NASA's not the way to get there. One day, when technology has advanced sufficiently, then we will see private enterprise take over the push into space. The reason that's not happening now is that it's just not worth it. There is no return we can get from NASA that's worth the money that's put in. If there were, companies would be rushing head first to do it themselves.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
But I think his books are still good. Whether or not they're his best work, they're still highly enjoyable. Unlike a previous poster, I thought Good Omens was hilarious. I'm looking forward to the book, and while I'd love him to get back into writing comics, I'm happy as long as he's writing.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
My God,/. really is a male dominated site. Okay, so he was wrong about men using these things. After all, we've got efficient electric razors for those who are bothered by regular manual razors. But plenty of women use the crap. Nair, anyone?
Hmm, brings up an interesting point. Did women routinely shave their legs in 1950?
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Okay, you'll laugh, but this just struck me earlier today. I've been using IE 5.5 and Mozilla pretty much interchangably since 0.9 came out. I've noticed that IE actually has been crashing maybe half again as often as Mozilla. Furthermore, it takes the same amount of time to boot as IE (about a three count on my PIII 600 mhz). No joke! The lizard has arrived.
If you don't believe me, I've also heard good things about Opera, but better browser or not, I feel no need to pay $30 for a browser. Konquerer also has its advantages, given that it's a fast little motherfucker. Not as stable, but obviously designed with the end user in mind (lets you save cookie preferences on a per site basis, so you can reject all doubleclick cookies while accepting others, and has a box you can check to prevent popup windows while leaving on javascript for other stuff).
I agree with the earlier poster. IE is good, but it's no longer better than everything else out there. It's superior in some areas, but inferior in others.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I recall that in the original D&D, they had rules for becoming a demigod if you got to the max level (36 was it?). Since Linus is, of course, a demigod due to anti-windows efforts, it stands to reason that you would become a demigod too for killing Windows entirely.
So, based on that, I'd say about 10 million XP.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
At the Embedded Systems Conference, in San Francisco a month ago, he gave a keynote. Some convention organizer schmuck announced him, saying "he is the author of the Hitchhiker's Trilogy. The 5 book trilogy. I know, a trilogy's only supposed to have 3 books in it, but he's hard at work on another book to rectify the situation."
This suggests that there was a HHG6 in the works.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
At ESC in San Francisco a month ago they mentioned that he was working on part 6. Really, how could the trilogy ever be over? That's why they called it a trilogy originally, because people thought the third book was it.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Adams JUST spoke at the Embedded Systems Conference here in San Francisco a month ago! And to think, I almost didn't go because it was right in the middle of the day on a workday.
Goddamn, well I don't know what to say... It's too bad we'll never be able to read that book he said he was working on in his speech. He had some great insights on intellectual property (he IS an author, after all), and I would have loved to see what he'd do with those insights in the next twenty years.
Fuck.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Northern vs. Southern Klingons. In TOS, everyone we encountered was a Northern Klingon (from the northern hemisphere of the planet). Everyone from the movies on was a Southern Klingon. Perhaps there was a Nazi-style pogrom in the intervening time to make sure things stayed that way?
Of course it's a lame excuse, but come on, bushy eyebrows do not a badass race make.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
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Average IQ has actually been rising about 3% per decade since 1900, mainly due to lower levels of lead content in the bloodstream. It strikes me that getting rid of the rest of the lead paint out there would be cheaper than buying everyone a computer, and would have more scientific evidence to back it up.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
That doesn't necessarily mean that something shouldn't be done to make it more obvious, but no matter what you do, no one's going to be able to guess what every single icon on the screen does just by looking at a screenshot.
My .sig is remarkably appropriate for this discussion...
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Has anyone read the whole series? Is it any good? I really liked the first three books, but my interest had sort of peaked 1/3 of the way through the 3rd book, and I never got past about page 50 in book 4. Is it worth going back?
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I think it only applies to those under 18, but it took effect maybe 3 years ago. My g/f just got her license 7 months ago, and it definately applied. Maybe it was highway driving rather than night driving you had to do several hours of, but I'm pretty damn sure it's law. I just barely scraped by, getting my license a month or two before it took effect.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Everyone who's watched Ferris Buller's Day Off knows that schools have kept attendance records on internet accessible computers since the 80's at least!
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
As for the other guy, who thought the disclaimer was stupid, these brokers are not terribly computer savy, and so they frequently pass along things like I Love You to their huge several hundred person client lists. Without that disclaimer, UBS Warburg could potentially be liable for any damages caused (despite the fact that the recipient would have to be as stupid as the sender in order to get infected). They still could be, but if they can avoid liability, they will.
My views may not necessarily reflect those of UBS PaineWebber :)
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
As for the voting age bit, well, sure, it got lowered to 18 when the boomers were young, and I haven't heard of any big push to change it, so we're probably safe. But, who cares what the voting age is when 80% of the population is over 50 anyway? (Yes, I'm exaggerating slightly)
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
All she's saying is, she sees no difference between homosexuality, bestiality and incest, on a moral basis. Yet, we are supposed to consider the second two deviant and evil, but the first is now a right, and is holy and pure. Why? It's absolute doublethink.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I would agree. Putting the lawsuit aside, CDDB is not so bad. If they were our only option, I would not break down in tears. BUT, we do have a truly free option, so why bother? Just stick with the better one, and stop worrying about how evil CDDB may or many not be.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I'm not trying to say "we're there now." I'm just saying "look at where we are now, and project forward 10 years." Producing a lifelike still picture may just be a first step, but it's an important one.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
In 10 years, processing power will probably be some 32-64 times faster (to be on the conservative side of Moore's Law), and that by itself will allow almost unbelievable improvements in detail. I think his prediction is perfectly reasonable.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Changing scarce goods from a common resource to private property almost always ensures that it will be used more efficiently. After all, if whoever bought it initially can't find a good use for it, he'll sell it to anyone who offers more money, so they can find one.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Also, the chemicals your body releases during different stages of a relationship are different. During the first 6-ish weeks, you experience the so-called "falling in love" stage. This is also the period when you can't keep your hands off each other for longer than 30 seconds. After that, you move more into the "marital bliss" stage, where you're happy, but no longer as excited as you once were. Sometimes people cheat because they feel that initial rush again with someone else, and it makes the new interest look more appealing than the current partner.
Then there are people with problems, be they psychological problems or just the fact that they're assholes. These people will cheat for no reason at all, or for a reason that is totally incomprehensible to the outside world.
Really, your comment is just blaming the victim. Sometimes, yes, someone cheats because of neglect. It is by no means the usual case.
(Disclaimer: no, I have never been cheated on (to the best of my knowledge, obviously), I just hate it when people assume that someone who gets cheated on must have "done something wrong")
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I think, rather than being depressed by how we have a tendancy to compete with one another, we ought to be impressed by our ability to recognize when there is a threat that is larger than all of us.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
US: Yes
Japan: No
This is because America has no official language. In fact, in parts of Florida and California, Spanish is as or more important of a language than English. Likewise, in the backwoods of Louisiana, they use French. There is no requirement that English be used for anything, official or otherwise. I don't see why that's bad. If the majority of the population in an area speaks one language, why should they be required to file government documents in what is for them a foreign language?
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
DivX movies. Hell, I spent the extra money for 80 minute cdr, just to get an extra bit of space to encode 2 hour movies at a more watchable quality. On a 1.2 gig cd, it'd be damn near DVD quality!
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I want my money back. We WILL go to Mars, but NASA's not the way to get there. One day, when technology has advanced sufficiently, then we will see private enterprise take over the push into space. The reason that's not happening now is that it's just not worth it. There is no return we can get from NASA that's worth the money that's put in. If there were, companies would be rushing head first to do it themselves.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
But I think his books are still good. Whether or not they're his best work, they're still highly enjoyable. Unlike a previous poster, I thought Good Omens was hilarious. I'm looking forward to the book, and while I'd love him to get back into writing comics, I'm happy as long as he's writing.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Hmm, brings up an interesting point. Did women routinely shave their legs in 1950?
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
If you don't believe me, I've also heard good things about Opera, but better browser or not, I feel no need to pay $30 for a browser. Konquerer also has its advantages, given that it's a fast little motherfucker. Not as stable, but obviously designed with the end user in mind (lets you save cookie preferences on a per site basis, so you can reject all doubleclick cookies while accepting others, and has a box you can check to prevent popup windows while leaving on javascript for other stuff).
I agree with the earlier poster. IE is good, but it's no longer better than everything else out there. It's superior in some areas, but inferior in others.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
So, based on that, I'd say about 10 million XP.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
This suggests that there was a HHG6 in the works.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
At ESC in San Francisco a month ago they mentioned that he was working on part 6. Really, how could the trilogy ever be over? That's why they called it a trilogy originally, because people thought the third book was it.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Goddamn, well I don't know what to say... It's too bad we'll never be able to read that book he said he was working on in his speech. He had some great insights on intellectual property (he IS an author, after all), and I would have loved to see what he'd do with those insights in the next twenty years.
Fuck.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Of course it's a lame excuse, but come on, bushy eyebrows do not a badass race make.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.