It dances into the bucket beside it, like a little fireworks show. I watch it over and over again. It's also a lovely metaphor, for catching shooting stars in a bucket. That one makes me sad, because it's mostly impossible, but some days I can still feel the pull of the dream.
5 or so years ago, it was definitely clear that leaving apps open was causing battery drain, and I obsessively closed everything as soon as I was done.
About a year ago I heard someone from Apple suggest it wasn't necessary any longer, and for the most part I leave things up and it seems to be true that they're not tremendous battery hogs.
Except Google Maps, of course. That burns through something like 1% of my battery every minute, and definitely keeps working even in the background. I will look stuff up, kill it, and repeat as necessary many times over rather than leaving it open any longer than I need to.
Nah, just inventing my own counter-quote and joke.
I used to live in a small development miles outside of a tiny town in a remote corner of the state. Nearest gas station (or commercial anything) was 5 minutes down a mountainside. Nearest Target was an hour and a half away. I may have had two dozen closely packed neighbors, but I think it takes more than that for a place to be "urban."
Sure, this does happen. But for every example I've heard of this kind of thing, there's a counter-example of a non-technical person making decisions without consulting IT, resulting in things that are technically impractical, ruinously expensive, completely insecure, or unnecessarily redundant.
The ideal middle ground involves healthy communication from both sides, in advance of any decision.
No, jackass. I'm saying that text which changes from no to yes, once, shouldn't flicker a dozen times in the middle using nearly the same words for both no and yes, because it's confusing.
I agree, in most of the south, it would be unliveable without AC. Mountain air is different, though. It's 90 outside right now, but it will be 75 just after sunset and 54 by midnight. The dry, thin air cools off very quickly. Usually all you need is a fan.
Don't forget, while the card is in the reader and you're waiting for the signal to remove it, it blinks repeatedly, flashing multiple different messages that you have to keep watching and reading until the "done" one comes up.
Also, the "okay to remove card" message tends to be formatted and look almost like the "do not remove card" message.
I'll admit I've jumped the gun a couple of times, seeing a bunch of blinks and then a message with "remove card" in it, I thought I was done, only to realize as I yanked it still said "do not." Alternately, I've also stood there like a fool a few times, thinking I was still waiting, because I didn't notice the message change when it finished.
Colorado weather, for one. It can get hot during the day, but it always cools off at night. Why spend all day paying to keep a house cool if you're going to get it for free as soon as the sun sets? My experience is most of the houses in the state don't have it.
Of course it makes more sense because I'm out of the house for a majority of the warmest hours. If I worked from home all the time, I'd have to reconsider cooling.
I think you're pushing a false dichotomy here. One can want the family around *some* of the time, but not *all* of the time. Or want them around most of the time, but not when you're working or really trying to focus. I can both love my kids and also state factually that they're not conducive to concentrating on a project.
In general, I don't think this is a useful question.
However, in one specific case, after about the fiftieth time I caused a bug by writing "(If i = 5)" and reading it as "if i equals 5" I consciously taught myself to start calling = "is assigned" and == "is equivalent to" in my head, to stop myself from making that same mistake over and over. Twenty years of seeing = in my math classes as "equals" was very hard for me to unlearn.
Thinking on it further, one of the best uses of this would be a virtual Disneyland. Most of what they're about right now is already faking that you're in an exotic place interacting with imaginary characters, anyway. Why not virtualize it? I'd say it's 50-50 odds whether they eventually end up being one of the leaders in this arena, or they fight it tooth and nail because they think it's cannibalizing their existing business models. Either way, by the time my kids are grandparents, I'd bet the physical resorts have faded away in favor of virtual visits.
Makes sense to me. The things I'd want to do with VR mostly aren't games, but rather other immersive situations.
Top on my list is a realistic, face-to-face meeting app, like Skype but in 3D so it feels like you're meeting in person. I'd imagine that's pretty far off, because it'd have to capture and transmit a lot of detail, and right now I can't get through Skype calls without the connection dropping and blipping all the time.
After that it's interesting spaces. Someone upthread mentioned imitation scuba diving. I'd also take hangouts (bar, coffee shop, to combine with the Skype functionality), flyovers of cities and mountain ranges, tours of Ancient Rome, views of outer space, Fantastic Voyage "shrink and explore the human body" experiences, and virtual zoos (where it's actually a perk that there's no smell) and phantasmagorical bestiaries. Haunted houses, too.
All those seem like they could be a ton of fun, and I could see myself spending hundreds of hours playing inside all those places before I'd be tempted to once try something like a virtual FPS.
When I got mine, the shelter told me that the life expectancy of an outdoor cat is half that of an indoor cat. So, did I want to have a companion for 8 years or 16? Seemed like an easy choice. Also, I was living in Chicago at the time, so there wasn't really a good/useful place to let them out anyway.
I'm in semi-rural Colorado now, and with all the predators out here, it still seems like a bad idea. There are missing cat posters up in my neighborhood monthly.
Odd. I don't think ever in my life I've bought shoes at the same time as socks. For that matter, I almost never buy shoes from the same kind of store that I'd buy my socks from. And I pick up belts when they wear out, not when I get new pants. Maybe I'm weird?
I could at least see matching a tie with a shirt.
Of course I never buy shoes, belts, and a tie together, so there's definitely no value in lumping those three items. I just still have to question the value of this particular insight, particularly compared to something like reduced shrinkage.
I had some old woman in New York City try to sell me one on the street about a month ago. Didn't know what it was at the time, but figured it out soon after. I figured I didn't want her merchandise of suspicious provenance, in any case.
Just finished Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. It's fanfiction, and is basically Harry Potter in an alternate universe. Funny, heavier on science and logic, also written as if Ender's Game was mixed in. I found it fantastic. Thankfully JK Rowling is apparently content to let it be as long as it's not a commercial endeavor, so that it's allowed to exist.
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It dances into the bucket beside it, like a little fireworks show. I watch it over and over again. It's also a lovely metaphor, for catching shooting stars in a bucket. That one makes me sad, because it's mostly impossible, but some days I can still feel the pull of the dream.
Did they learn flight from the pigs?
5 or so years ago, it was definitely clear that leaving apps open was causing battery drain, and I obsessively closed everything as soon as I was done.
About a year ago I heard someone from Apple suggest it wasn't necessary any longer, and for the most part I leave things up and it seems to be true that they're not tremendous battery hogs.
Except Google Maps, of course. That burns through something like 1% of my battery every minute, and definitely keeps working even in the background. I will look stuff up, kill it, and repeat as necessary many times over rather than leaving it open any longer than I need to.
Nah, just inventing my own counter-quote and joke.
I used to live in a small development miles outside of a tiny town in a remote corner of the state. Nearest gas station (or commercial anything) was 5 minutes down a mountainside. Nearest Target was an hour and a half away. I may have had two dozen closely packed neighbors, but I think it takes more than that for a place to be "urban."
"If you've had a bear on your front porch, you're not in an urban area."
Apparently, I live in a paradox.
Sure, this does happen. But for every example I've heard of this kind of thing, there's a counter-example of a non-technical person making decisions without consulting IT, resulting in things that are technically impractical, ruinously expensive, completely insecure, or unnecessarily redundant.
The ideal middle ground involves healthy communication from both sides, in advance of any decision.
No, jackass. I'm saying that text which changes from no to yes, once, shouldn't flicker a dozen times in the middle using nearly the same words for both no and yes, because it's confusing.
I agree, in most of the south, it would be unliveable without AC. Mountain air is different, though. It's 90 outside right now, but it will be 75 just after sunset and 54 by midnight. The dry, thin air cools off very quickly. Usually all you need is a fan.
Don't forget, while the card is in the reader and you're waiting for the signal to remove it, it blinks repeatedly, flashing multiple different messages that you have to keep watching and reading until the "done" one comes up.
Also, the "okay to remove card" message tends to be formatted and look almost like the "do not remove card" message.
I'll admit I've jumped the gun a couple of times, seeing a bunch of blinks and then a message with "remove card" in it, I thought I was done, only to realize as I yanked it still said "do not." Alternately, I've also stood there like a fool a few times, thinking I was still waiting, because I didn't notice the message change when it finished.
Err...why would you not have A/C in your home?
Colorado weather, for one. It can get hot during the day, but it always cools off at night. Why spend all day paying to keep a house cool if you're going to get it for free as soon as the sun sets? My experience is most of the houses in the state don't have it.
Of course it makes more sense because I'm out of the house for a majority of the warmest hours. If I worked from home all the time, I'd have to reconsider cooling.
I think you're pushing a false dichotomy here. One can want the family around *some* of the time, but not *all* of the time. Or want them around most of the time, but not when you're working or really trying to focus. I can both love my kids and also state factually that they're not conducive to concentrating on a project.
In general, I don't think this is a useful question.
However, in one specific case, after about the fiftieth time I caused a bug by writing "(If i = 5)" and reading it as "if i equals 5" I consciously taught myself to start calling = "is assigned" and == "is equivalent to" in my head, to stop myself from making that same mistake over and over. Twenty years of seeing = in my math classes as "equals" was very hard for me to unlearn.
Tell me what my co-working is communicating by having a plaid background image tiled through all of their email.
Thinking on it further, one of the best uses of this would be a virtual Disneyland. Most of what they're about right now is already faking that you're in an exotic place interacting with imaginary characters, anyway. Why not virtualize it? I'd say it's 50-50 odds whether they eventually end up being one of the leaders in this arena, or they fight it tooth and nail because they think it's cannibalizing their existing business models. Either way, by the time my kids are grandparents, I'd bet the physical resorts have faded away in favor of virtual visits.
Makes sense to me. The things I'd want to do with VR mostly aren't games, but rather other immersive situations.
Top on my list is a realistic, face-to-face meeting app, like Skype but in 3D so it feels like you're meeting in person. I'd imagine that's pretty far off, because it'd have to capture and transmit a lot of detail, and right now I can't get through Skype calls without the connection dropping and blipping all the time.
After that it's interesting spaces. Someone upthread mentioned imitation scuba diving. I'd also take hangouts (bar, coffee shop, to combine with the Skype functionality), flyovers of cities and mountain ranges, tours of Ancient Rome, views of outer space, Fantastic Voyage "shrink and explore the human body" experiences, and virtual zoos (where it's actually a perk that there's no smell) and phantasmagorical bestiaries. Haunted houses, too.
All those seem like they could be a ton of fun, and I could see myself spending hundreds of hours playing inside all those places before I'd be tempted to once try something like a virtual FPS.
When I got mine, the shelter told me that the life expectancy of an outdoor cat is half that of an indoor cat. So, did I want to have a companion for 8 years or 16? Seemed like an easy choice. Also, I was living in Chicago at the time, so there wasn't really a good/useful place to let them out anyway.
I'm in semi-rural Colorado now, and with all the predators out here, it still seems like a bad idea. There are missing cat posters up in my neighborhood monthly.
Try the Wynkoop brewpub. It's about halfway between the Convention Center and Coors Field.
Slashdot has about 1000 unique visitors a day.
Snowflakes, every one of them.
Odd. I don't think ever in my life I've bought shoes at the same time as socks. For that matter, I almost never buy shoes from the same kind of store that I'd buy my socks from. And I pick up belts when they wear out, not when I get new pants. Maybe I'm weird?
I could at least see matching a tie with a shirt.
Of course I never buy shoes, belts, and a tie together, so there's definitely no value in lumping those three items. I just still have to question the value of this particular insight, particularly compared to something like reduced shrinkage.
To be honest, it mostly doesn't.
You have read The Grauniad haven't you?
Hmm, the Grauniad? Does that novel come before or after the Belgariad? My Eddings is rusty.
That word is not a part of other non-offensive words.
I sni*ger at your poor vocabulary. Yes, outright laughter from me.
I had some old woman in New York City try to sell me one on the street about a month ago. Didn't know what it was at the time, but figured it out soon after. I figured I didn't want her merchandise of suspicious provenance, in any case.
I just store my computer in a crypt.
Just finished Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. It's fanfiction, and is basically Harry Potter in an alternate universe. Funny, heavier on science and logic, also written as if Ender's Game was mixed in. I found it fantastic. Thankfully JK Rowling is apparently content to let it be as long as it's not a commercial endeavor, so that it's allowed to exist.