No, I did not RTFA, but the first thought I had was; if the planet is between us and its star, we'd be "seeing" the side of the planet facing away from the star. Wouldn't it be dark? It's not like it's a binary system with another star lighting the opposite side.
Since it's a gas giant, I guess there would be enough light filtering through the upper atmosphere edges to cast off some light, but overall, it seems like such a small area to glean colors from.
What we need is a law that allows anyone (individuals, corporations, government agencies) to inform the public of such eavesdropping, with protection and no ramifications by whatever agency is requiring them to do so. Then the NSA or whomever can't make these secret "let-us-in-and-don't-tell-anyone-or-we'll-throw-you-into-a-deep-dark-hole" demands.
I almost could have written your post, except my first computer was an Atari 800. I took a while to choose between it and the TRS-80, mostly because those were the two computers I found set up at the local mall. Star Raiders was awesome on the 800, and I couldn't count the number of hours I spent typing in programs and saving them to the tape drive. I still remember one game which felt like it took a couple hours to type in -- I saved it out 5 times onto 5 different tapes and I still wasn't able to ever load it up to play. One of the first games I bought was called, Captivity(?), which was a 3D maze game. The cassette it came on played guitar music while the game took 9 minutes to load.
After that, I switched to the C64, and then went through several iterations of Atari ST's. And yes, had the Jaguar too, which was loads of fun.
Good points. I know next-to-nothing about acupuncture, but I do know it requires a lot of study. It's not just poking needles in random places on people. So a "degree in acupuncture" I could see and agree with. A "SCIENCE degree in acupuncture" I'm not so sure. It depends on what the implications are behind the "science" label. I think there is a science to acupuncture, it's just not something that we can define using Western understanding which hasn't been through the rigors we place on Western medicine.
I know very little about acupuncture, but it seems to me it would be possible to perform "placebo" tests. I thought acupuncture was based on areas on the body corresponding to other parts of the body and they didn't always seem to corelate (I'm just making stuff up here, but for instance, the left shin corelates to the liver). Seeing as most people don't know or understand these corelations, it seems like a placebo test could apply acupuncture to unrelated areas. You could then measure results and see whether you get an acceptable or unacceptable placebo rate as compared to those who had the acupuncture administered correctly.
The reverse is also true. My son does not respond to traditional pain relief remedies; aspirin, ibuprofen, acetaminophen. None of them work on him. A while back he started getting these intense abdominal pains. For two weeks he was essentially bed-ridden. We tried everything we could think of. He saw several doctors and had multiple scans and tests run. Nothing told us what was wrong or alleviated the pain. We then tried an acupuncturist. Before the session was over, his pain was completely removed. Now you could say it was coincidence, and maybe it was. A few months later, the pain reoccurred and within a couple days we took him back to the acupuncturist and again, his pain went away instantly.
I believe if there are scientific paths to treat illness, you should take them. In general, I doubt many homeopathic claims, but if something works for you and it's not endangering or it can avoid negative side effects of traditional methods, how can you deny that?
"According to Star Trek, their transporters were not FTL, and actually did disassemble and reassemble molecules."
True, but not YOUR molecules. I can't recall if it was ever mentioned specifically, but there were numerous mentions of pattern buffers, and transmitting "data", not molecules.
IMO, the poster's statement still stands. You are being killed and a clone of you is created in the new location.
Except that he had the rare form of Pancreatic cancer which, from my understanding was highly treatable and had a high survival rate - given that you treated it early.
I want to see our (U.S.) towering piles of laws reduced. Start a movement towards law simplification. Go through all the laws. If they are outdated or no longer apply, remove them. If an existing broader, more-simplified law covers the actions of a multitude of specific-case laws, throw the more specific ones out.
I'm not even sure a shopping list means that much. It really depends on what specific information was on the list. I could completely see someone who is curious about bombs, after reading about their construction, creating a "shopping list" to see how easy or hard it would be to obtain the materials needed.
And the jihad letter? I don't know. It seems "wrong" to me to the point where I would consider the possibility of it being planted by the police. I would be really curious if Asim originally denied ever writing that letter if he had admitted to owning the instructions.
Maybe we should reverse the trend.
If someone refuses to submit to a pat-down, let them board the plane and announce to the passengers the situation and anyone who would rather depart the plane and book another flight are free to do so.
Good to hear your customer-facing apps involve the usability process. Bad to hear the Powers-That-Be don't see the value for employees as well. My last 3 contract jobs have all dealt with usability for internal-facing applications only. Streamlining the process and reducing stress and frustration for employees by applying usability principles can have a major positive impact on development costs and end user productivity. Even morale and loyalty can be boosted when employees see their company cares about them enough to improve the tools they use every day.
You can't make blanket statements like this. Yes, command-line tools are faster for some things, but when you are working with visual content such as formatting a paragraph in a document or drawing a box or adding an illustration, a graphical UI will get the job done faster in most cases.
It's not a designer you need. There are plenty of UI designers who prioritize form over function. To really get a simple, workable, clean UI you need a usability expert who is going to take the time to design a front end that streamlines the functionality and ease of use for the end users. It's not easy, but with the proper prototyping and testing, any UI can be improved.
It's sad to see the current state of eBooks. There is so much potential there, features and possibilities which are as yet untapped.
While I hate commercials, I view them as a necessary evil. That is how the networks are able to bring you the shows.
What I really, really despise is the in-program advertising. It started with the channel bugs stations felt were necessary to remind you what channel you are watching. The lower third ads completely distract from the program to promote some other show or event. It was bad enough when they were static and small, but now they are animated and, year after year, become bigger and creep up higher and higher on the screen.
For me, that would be the kind of call I'd WANT to get. There have been a couple times where my card was declined and it took a call to the credit card company to find out there was a questionable charge. I would have much preferred a call asking about it rather than having me deal with a declined card when I might be in a hurry or not have another card on me.
Yeah, I CAN read a book or watch a movie on a smartphone-sized screen, but it is far better/easier on a tablet, just as watching a movie is far better on a HDTV. Obviously, I can't lug around my 50" plasma, but I can stick my tablet in my backpack and use it pretty much wherever I am. The tablet's form factor also makes it easy to prop up on a pillow in my hotel room while reading or watching something. A smartphone pretty much requires you to be holding it all the time.
I have an iPad, but I use the term tablet because I am not speaking about iPads specifically. Why are there no other tablets with the same market share? It's not because the tablet market is slowing. It's because no one else has produced (yet) a tablet that matches the speed, quality and ease of use of the iPad. Will it happen? It certainly could. It just hasn't happened yet.
Whenever I can, I stop by displays and give other tablets a try. Usually within 5 seconds, I experience lag when moving through the navigation or it reacts in ways I don't expect. I'm sorry, but if you can't even give me fluid movement through your OS screens, then you released it too early.
iOS 5 should solve this problem, yes? From what I've read, with iOS 5 comes cloud-based syncing -- no need for iTunes to be installed anywhere. I could be wrong, but it's my understanding that you won't need to have iTunes to activate, maintain, sync or update your iOS device, which should allow you to live an iTunes-free life, should you choose.
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No, I did not RTFA, but the first thought I had was; if the planet is between us and its star, we'd be "seeing" the side of the planet facing away from the star. Wouldn't it be dark? It's not like it's a binary system with another star lighting the opposite side. Since it's a gas giant, I guess there would be enough light filtering through the upper atmosphere edges to cast off some light, but overall, it seems like such a small area to glean colors from.
Are there any plug-ins or methods which allow you to spoof what information is sent back?
What we need is a law that allows anyone (individuals, corporations, government agencies) to inform the public of such eavesdropping, with protection and no ramifications by whatever agency is requiring them to do so. Then the NSA or whomever can't make these secret "let-us-in-and-don't-tell-anyone-or-we'll-throw-you-into-a-deep-dark-hole" demands.
The sad part is, we'll never see it coming.
I almost could have written your post, except my first computer was an Atari 800. I took a while to choose between it and the TRS-80, mostly because those were the two computers I found set up at the local mall. Star Raiders was awesome on the 800, and I couldn't count the number of hours I spent typing in programs and saving them to the tape drive. I still remember one game which felt like it took a couple hours to type in -- I saved it out 5 times onto 5 different tapes and I still wasn't able to ever load it up to play. One of the first games I bought was called, Captivity(?), which was a 3D maze game. The cassette it came on played guitar music while the game took 9 minutes to load. After that, I switched to the C64, and then went through several iterations of Atari ST's. And yes, had the Jaguar too, which was loads of fun.
Good points. I know next-to-nothing about acupuncture, but I do know it requires a lot of study. It's not just poking needles in random places on people. So a "degree in acupuncture" I could see and agree with. A "SCIENCE degree in acupuncture" I'm not so sure. It depends on what the implications are behind the "science" label. I think there is a science to acupuncture, it's just not something that we can define using Western understanding which hasn't been through the rigors we place on Western medicine.
I know very little about acupuncture, but it seems to me it would be possible to perform "placebo" tests. I thought acupuncture was based on areas on the body corresponding to other parts of the body and they didn't always seem to corelate (I'm just making stuff up here, but for instance, the left shin corelates to the liver). Seeing as most people don't know or understand these corelations, it seems like a placebo test could apply acupuncture to unrelated areas. You could then measure results and see whether you get an acceptable or unacceptable placebo rate as compared to those who had the acupuncture administered correctly.
The reverse is also true. My son does not respond to traditional pain relief remedies; aspirin, ibuprofen, acetaminophen. None of them work on him. A while back he started getting these intense abdominal pains. For two weeks he was essentially bed-ridden. We tried everything we could think of. He saw several doctors and had multiple scans and tests run. Nothing told us what was wrong or alleviated the pain. We then tried an acupuncturist. Before the session was over, his pain was completely removed. Now you could say it was coincidence, and maybe it was. A few months later, the pain reoccurred and within a couple days we took him back to the acupuncturist and again, his pain went away instantly. I believe if there are scientific paths to treat illness, you should take them. In general, I doubt many homeopathic claims, but if something works for you and it's not endangering or it can avoid negative side effects of traditional methods, how can you deny that?
I loved GEnie. Awesome community. My wife and I were very sad to see it fade away.
"According to Star Trek, their transporters were not FTL, and actually did disassemble and reassemble molecules." True, but not YOUR molecules. I can't recall if it was ever mentioned specifically, but there were numerous mentions of pattern buffers, and transmitting "data", not molecules. IMO, the poster's statement still stands. You are being killed and a clone of you is created in the new location.
Except that he had the rare form of Pancreatic cancer which, from my understanding was highly treatable and had a high survival rate - given that you treated it early.
I want to see our (U.S.) towering piles of laws reduced. Start a movement towards law simplification. Go through all the laws. If they are outdated or no longer apply, remove them. If an existing broader, more-simplified law covers the actions of a multitude of specific-case laws, throw the more specific ones out.
I'm not even sure a shopping list means that much. It really depends on what specific information was on the list. I could completely see someone who is curious about bombs, after reading about their construction, creating a "shopping list" to see how easy or hard it would be to obtain the materials needed. And the jihad letter? I don't know. It seems "wrong" to me to the point where I would consider the possibility of it being planted by the police. I would be really curious if Asim originally denied ever writing that letter if he had admitted to owning the instructions.
Maybe we should reverse the trend. If someone refuses to submit to a pat-down, let them board the plane and announce to the passengers the situation and anyone who would rather depart the plane and book another flight are free to do so.
Probably most happen this way.
Good to hear your customer-facing apps involve the usability process. Bad to hear the Powers-That-Be don't see the value for employees as well. My last 3 contract jobs have all dealt with usability for internal-facing applications only. Streamlining the process and reducing stress and frustration for employees by applying usability principles can have a major positive impact on development costs and end user productivity. Even morale and loyalty can be boosted when employees see their company cares about them enough to improve the tools they use every day.
You can't make blanket statements like this. Yes, command-line tools are faster for some things, but when you are working with visual content such as formatting a paragraph in a document or drawing a box or adding an illustration, a graphical UI will get the job done faster in most cases.
It's not a designer you need. There are plenty of UI designers who prioritize form over function. To really get a simple, workable, clean UI you need a usability expert who is going to take the time to design a front end that streamlines the functionality and ease of use for the end users. It's not easy, but with the proper prototyping and testing, any UI can be improved.
It's sad to see the current state of eBooks. There is so much potential there, features and possibilities which are as yet untapped.
While I hate commercials, I view them as a necessary evil. That is how the networks are able to bring you the shows.
What I really, really despise is the in-program advertising. It started with the channel bugs stations felt were necessary to remind you what channel you are watching. The lower third ads completely distract from the program to promote some other show or event. It was bad enough when they were static and small, but now they are animated and, year after year, become bigger and creep up higher and higher on the screen.
For me, that would be the kind of call I'd WANT to get. There have been a couple times where my card was declined and it took a call to the credit card company to find out there was a questionable charge. I would have much preferred a call asking about it rather than having me deal with a declined card when I might be in a hurry or not have another card on me.
What kind of banks are these? I can't remember ever getting any calls like this from any bank I've ever used. Is this common, it sure seems like it?
...or design it so it doesn't matter which way you plug it in.
Yeah, I CAN read a book or watch a movie on a smartphone-sized screen, but it is far better/easier on a tablet, just as watching a movie is far better on a HDTV. Obviously, I can't lug around my 50" plasma, but I can stick my tablet in my backpack and use it pretty much wherever I am. The tablet's form factor also makes it easy to prop up on a pillow in my hotel room while reading or watching something. A smartphone pretty much requires you to be holding it all the time.
I have an iPad, but I use the term tablet because I am not speaking about iPads specifically. Why are there no other tablets with the same market share? It's not because the tablet market is slowing. It's because no one else has produced (yet) a tablet that matches the speed, quality and ease of use of the iPad. Will it happen? It certainly could. It just hasn't happened yet.
Whenever I can, I stop by displays and give other tablets a try. Usually within 5 seconds, I experience lag when moving through the navigation or it reacts in ways I don't expect. I'm sorry, but if you can't even give me fluid movement through your OS screens, then you released it too early.
iOS 5 should solve this problem, yes? From what I've read, with iOS 5 comes cloud-based syncing -- no need for iTunes to be installed anywhere. I could be wrong, but it's my understanding that you won't need to have iTunes to activate, maintain, sync or update your iOS device, which should allow you to live an iTunes-free life, should you choose.
I literally don't think you know what literally means.