There are laws against DUI/DWI, but none against riding while intoxicated (except public drunkenness, in some cases). This particular discussion is about "Open Containers". If an officer observes an open container, he has every right to search the vehicle or administer sobriety tests, and is often prudent to do so. It is impossible to prove that the driver is not impaired without the tests. If an officer observes an open container, it is a strong indicator that a law may have been broken.
Also, drunk passengers can be quite distracting. Their judgment is impaired and they may exhibit behavior that causes the driver to become distracted (which is an impairment).
The driver is responsible for the vehicle and adherence to law. Upright, open containers within reach of the driver give reasonable cause to test the driver for impairment.
I used to handle most of the graphics duties at my company. As Photoshop changed through version 2.5-7.0, the keyboard shortcuts and tool icon layouts changed as well. For instance, the Paint Bucket/Flood-fill tool used to be accessible with the "B" key, but in a major version change, it was available on a toggle with the Gradient tool attached to the "G" key. Also, version 5 let me toggle between the Pen and Pencil tools with "P", but that has changed (to "K", I think, and the pencil and pen are on different tool sets).
Thankfully, "Pan" is still accessible with the spacebar, the full-screen toggle is still "F", and I can hide all tool pallettes with a press of the TAB key.
I no longer handle the graphics duties, and the "B" key may or may not have been the actual shortcut key. The problem I'm trying to address is that of catering professional tools to casual or occasional users, and changing what professional users have integrated into their muscle memory. If someone relies solely upon their eyes and the mouse to accomplish their tasks, they will never achieve enough speed increase to affect their overall efficiency.
As an example, if I am working in a visual medium, be it page layout, a word processor, photo editing package, a video-editing suite, or even sight-reading music, as soon as I shift my focus from the visual input (to find a tool or some other click target, or to look at my fingers on the keyboard), I loose synchronicity, which directly impacts my efficiency/productivity.
Sorry for ranting. I love Photoshop, and I don't like the ability to position tool pallettes on a separate monitor, unless that monitor is a touchpad next to my keyboard, which it never has been.
If 36,000 employees miss a menu 200 times/hour, and the average wage is $35/hr, the company is losing $0.194/hour/employee, or $7,000 per hour across the entire organization.
HOLY CRAP! By choosing OSX, and hiring people that select stuff by slamming the mouse to its extents, any organization can earn $7,000 MORE per hour! These earnings increase exponentially with each dead uncle with a Nigerian Bank Account.
In related news, games that traditionally required finnesse such as: bowling, billiards, and table tennis; are being redefined to accomodate players that prefer to slam everything rather than develop skills.
Why does cheating ruin the game? It just makes it a different game. I love to cheat against the computer. I also enjoy beating the computer within its ruleset.
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The story you reference indicates that the intel compiler deliberately downgrades performance when an AMD processor is detected. If the compiler optimizes instruction to leverage a particular advantage of the intel instruction set, it's competetive. If it downgrades performance because it's running on competitors hardware (with no cause to do so other than the fact that it's competing hardware) it's anti-competitive.
Competition is like arguing with integrity. There are two ways to argu one's point:
To build up your point with fact and supporting anecdotes, or
To make your argument appear better by attacking the competing point of view.
The first style appeals to logic and spurs competition and development of the thought. The second appeals to emotion, spurns competition and can stagnate development of thought. The former is competitive, and the latter is anti-competitive.
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A competitive advantage would exist if the intel offering performed better than the AMD offering without limiting/reducing/throttling the performance of the AMD offering. Artificial limitations are anti-competitive practices.
If intel offered to optimize or optimized code for their processor and instruction set, that would be a competitive advantage. If there was no cooperation, it's questionable.
CSS 2.0 supports both widow- and orphan- control with the "widows" and "orphans" block-level tags, respectively. Unfortunately, Opera is the only browser I've found that honors those tags. CSS still offers no page margin control, though.
Hmm. How secure is the bluetooth interfacing? I suppose you could have a bluetooth receiver listening promiscuously. I didn't realize that but for me, that doesn't diminish the coolness.
Unless they use your bugpen to sign something. Make sure they sign at least seven times so you can generate a natural variance algorithm.
Take the ink out, put some buttons on it and slap a gyroscope or two in it so it can be a motion sensing pointing device (anyone remember the gyromouse? I was going to tape one to my forehead and try some Quake 1 with head tracking...) Put a laser pointer in it and make it all run on a AAA battery for ever!
All of these electronics in the pen would seem to make the pen too heavy for practical use.
I like the idea of drawing a calculator and then using it. I'm not a huge fan of the spoken answer though.
Drop the speaker, add a bluetooth interface, an RF transmitter and possibly an infrared transmitter and the interface possibilities open up exponentially.
Draw a universal remote and use it. I think this would be a good tool for human interface design, and much cheaper than a smartboard+projector.
While you're at it, make it a cellphone, too! Actually that's dumb. The bluetooth interface would make adding contacts to your bluetooth-enabled phone's address book easier.
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It is well put, but also ignoring a significant section of XBox culture-- that which used to ride the cutting edge of PC hardware but now has other priorities that take money away from hardware upgrades. The XBox is a nice fit for that segment of people because it's a one-time hardware investment with $30 additional controllers and $50 games.
I enjoy the balance of Halo, and the vehicles. The graphics are immersive and the play paced very nicely. I enjoy the visuals in Halo, and the sound mix. It is unobtrusive and serves to suspend reality. I can no longer afford to upgrade my computer to play Half-Life 2 or Doom 3 (damn house... damn family... damn wife), but I can afford to stay up all night with my wife and kill Covenant and Flood troops! (she's as excited as I am for Halo 2, which is way cool!)
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I know this is a bit off-topic but...
Halo is a "great game" because everything behaves as you expect it to. There are few suprises in physical behavior.
I've never played SOCOM, but I understand that things behave as they would in the natural world.
"Splinter Cell" is very enjoyable, but you can't pick up an enemy weapon. Why the hell not? Because you don't want to fire untested weapons? I got shot by it, that's a pretty good test!
The "Rainbow Six" games also do not offer the ability to pick up enemy weapons... or shoot out lights... or turn out lights... or dive and roll... or shoot gangsta-style, even though your enemies can... or shoot around a corner... even though your enemies can. If you want to shoot, you must be completely exposed... you cannot lay prone, even though your enemy can. WHAT THE HELL?
"GTA 3+" are great because even though the physics are bordering on the unreal, they are consistent... and you can run over everything and drive a tank, and an Apache Helicopter with missiles... and a motorcycle, and the mission order is not completely restricted. I really want San Andreas on the PC. You can pick up enemy weapons and cash.
"Rune" is a great game (on the PC) because you can pick up enemy weapons... and heads... and arms... While the world is not destructible, it's a blast to sever your coworkers with a dwarven axe.
While secrecy may make it less likely that the information falls into the hands of terrorists, it cannot guaranteed that it won't. Much like corporate code secrets somehow find their way to the public knowlege as exploits.
Why couldn't you setup macros on your laptop that are triggered by BlueTooth events and use your laptop to translate those events into IR signals with some sort of USB or Serial hardware? It's certaily not the neatest solution, but I think it'd be easier than retrofitting your A/V equipment with BlueTooth.
You probably get modded down because this topic's thread is not grammar. I used to get really upset when people wouldn't take the time to spell-check or at least proof-read their posts/email/instant messages. My anger would be reflected in my reply because I would not proof-read it (anger = haste for me) and correct their spelling with errors of my own.
Grammar and spelling is a point of contention between my wife and I. She'll ask me to proofread an email she's about to send out to make sure iit "sounds good". To me, "sounds good" means: properly constructed, formatted correctly, and "get's the point across" (in that order). The problem is that she writes like she speaks, illustrating emphasis with initial capitals. It bothers her when I correct her grammar/capitalization/etc. I needed to learn to read so that I could look past the presentation and determine the meaning.
I've found that I think faster than I type and my fingers effectively "drop frames" and the meanings of sentences shift mid-sentence... unless I proofread it. Truly, haste makes waste.
According to a grammar site, sentence 3 would be proper as "The camper is theirs", so thank you.
I count binary on my fingers. I can count from 0 to 1024, or -511 to +511. With all of the mental conditioning, I don't even need my fingers... so there!
However, not all browsers support CSS in this manner. While you could do it, if it is a key method of navigability, you will ostracize many many users. It is my experience that more modern browsers' javascript implementation is close and feature-complete than is their CSS implementation.
As an added bonus, I find that JavaScript is very handy as a prototyping language...
Several people have mentioned that JavaScript is used only for roll-overs and such. You can do some truly wonderful UI stuff with JavaScript, such as leveraging the client's processor cycles to handle mundance but expensive tasks like sorting and layout. Sending a set of data to the client, javascript objects, CSS and laying it out at runtime is much more bandwidth-efficient than sending the formatted results of a query. PLUS, you can use javascript to pop-up a new window and get a new dataset, which can be displayed with the same code used for the original. There are SO MANY nice things you can do with JavaScript. JavaScript is a technology that nicely enhances the user experience, but certainly can be misused.
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Did JT go after Microsoft Flight Simulator, too?
There are laws against DUI/DWI, but none against riding while intoxicated (except public drunkenness, in some cases). This particular discussion is about "Open Containers". If an officer observes an open container, he has every right to search the vehicle or administer sobriety tests, and is often prudent to do so. It is impossible to prove that the driver is not impaired without the tests. If an officer observes an open container, it is a strong indicator that a law may have been broken.
Also, drunk passengers can be quite distracting. Their judgment is impaired and they may exhibit behavior that causes the driver to become distracted (which is an impairment).
The driver is responsible for the vehicle and adherence to law. Upright, open containers within reach of the driver give reasonable cause to test the driver for impairment.
I used to handle most of the graphics duties at my company. As Photoshop changed through version 2.5-7.0, the keyboard shortcuts and tool icon layouts changed as well. For instance, the Paint Bucket/Flood-fill tool used to be accessible with the "B" key, but in a major version change, it was available on a toggle with the Gradient tool attached to the "G" key. Also, version 5 let me toggle between the Pen and Pencil tools with "P", but that has changed (to "K", I think, and the pencil and pen are on different tool sets).
Thankfully, "Pan" is still accessible with the spacebar, the full-screen toggle is still "F", and I can hide all tool pallettes with a press of the TAB key.
I no longer handle the graphics duties, and the "B" key may or may not have been the actual shortcut key. The problem I'm trying to address is that of catering professional tools to casual or occasional users, and changing what professional users have integrated into their muscle memory. If someone relies solely upon their eyes and the mouse to accomplish their tasks, they will never achieve enough speed increase to affect their overall efficiency.
As an example, if I am working in a visual medium, be it page layout, a word processor, photo editing package, a video-editing suite, or even sight-reading music, as soon as I shift my focus from the visual input (to find a tool or some other click target, or to look at my fingers on the keyboard), I loose synchronicity, which directly impacts my efficiency/productivity.
Sorry for ranting. I love Photoshop, and I don't like the ability to position tool pallettes on a separate monitor, unless that monitor is a touchpad next to my keyboard, which it never has been.
If 36,000 employees miss a menu 200 times/hour, and the average wage is $35/hr, the company is losing $0.194/hour/employee, or $7,000 per hour across the entire organization.
HOLY CRAP! By choosing OSX, and hiring people that select stuff by slamming the mouse to its extents, any organization can earn $7,000 MORE per hour! These earnings increase exponentially with each dead uncle with a Nigerian Bank Account.
In related news, games that traditionally required finnesse such as: bowling, billiards, and table tennis; are being redefined to accomodate players that prefer to slam everything rather than develop skills.
Why does cheating ruin the game? It just makes it a different game. I love to cheat against the computer. I also enjoy beating the computer within its ruleset.
The story you reference indicates that the intel compiler deliberately downgrades performance when an AMD processor is detected. If the compiler optimizes instruction to leverage a particular advantage of the intel instruction set, it's competetive. If it downgrades performance because it's running on competitors hardware (with no cause to do so other than the fact that it's competing hardware) it's anti-competitive.
Competition is like arguing with integrity. There are two ways to argu one's point:
The first style appeals to logic and spurs competition and development of the thought. The second appeals to emotion, spurns competition and can stagnate development of thought. The former is competitive, and the latter is anti-competitive.
A competitive advantage would exist if the intel offering performed better than the AMD offering without limiting/reducing/throttling the performance of the AMD offering. Artificial limitations are anti-competitive practices.
If intel offered to optimize or optimized code for their processor and instruction set, that would be a competitive advantage. If there was no cooperation, it's questionable.
CSS 2.0 supports both widow- and orphan- control with the "widows" and "orphans" block-level tags, respectively. Unfortunately, Opera is the only browser I've found that honors those tags. CSS still offers no page margin control, though.
Actually, wouldn't it be "GAY O L" ?
Of course not... Halo 2 doesn't have a flamethrower.
Hmm. How secure is the bluetooth interfacing? I suppose you could have a bluetooth receiver listening promiscuously. I didn't realize that but for me, that doesn't diminish the coolness.
Unless they use your bugpen to sign something. Make sure they sign at least seven times so you can generate a natural variance algorithm.
Take the ink out, put some buttons on it and slap a gyroscope or two in it so it can be a motion sensing pointing device (anyone remember the gyromouse? I was going to tape one to my forehead and try some Quake 1 with head tracking...) Put a laser pointer in it and make it all run on a AAA battery for ever!
All of these electronics in the pen would seem to make the pen too heavy for practical use.
I like the idea of drawing a calculator and then using it. I'm not a huge fan of the spoken answer though.
Drop the speaker, add a bluetooth interface, an RF transmitter and possibly an infrared transmitter and the interface possibilities open up exponentially.
Draw a universal remote and use it. I think this would be a good tool for human interface design, and much cheaper than a smartboard+projector.
While you're at it, make it a cellphone, too! Actually that's dumb. The bluetooth interface would make adding contacts to your bluetooth-enabled phone's address book easier.
The namespace sharing seems to be related to the IE rendering engine. I use "Maxtheon" (MyIE?) and it crossrenders as well.
How is this "insightful"?
It is well put, but also ignoring a significant section of XBox culture-- that which used to ride the cutting edge of PC hardware but now has other priorities that take money away from hardware upgrades. The XBox is a nice fit for that segment of people because it's a one-time hardware investment with $30 additional controllers and $50 games.
I enjoy the balance of Halo, and the vehicles. The graphics are immersive and the play paced very nicely. I enjoy the visuals in Halo, and the sound mix. It is unobtrusive and serves to suspend reality. I can no longer afford to upgrade my computer to play Half-Life 2 or Doom 3 (damn house... damn family... damn wife), but I can afford to stay up all night with my wife and kill Covenant and Flood troops! (she's as excited as I am for Halo 2, which is way cool!)
I know this is a bit off-topic but...
Halo is a "great game" because everything behaves as you expect it to. There are few suprises in physical behavior.
I've never played SOCOM, but I understand that things behave as they would in the natural world.
"Splinter Cell" is very enjoyable, but you can't pick up an enemy weapon. Why the hell not? Because you don't want to fire untested weapons? I got shot by it, that's a pretty good test!
The "Rainbow Six" games also do not offer the ability to pick up enemy weapons... or shoot out lights... or turn out lights... or dive and roll... or shoot gangsta-style, even though your enemies can... or shoot around a corner... even though your enemies can. If you want to shoot, you must be completely exposed... you cannot lay prone, even though your enemy can. WHAT THE HELL?
"GTA 3+" are great because even though the physics are bordering on the unreal, they are consistent... and you can run over everything and drive a tank, and an Apache Helicopter with missiles... and a motorcycle, and the mission order is not completely restricted. I really want San Andreas on the PC. You can pick up enemy weapons and cash.
"Rune" is a great game (on the PC) because you can pick up enemy weapons... and heads... and arms... While the world is not destructible, it's a blast to sever your coworkers with a dwarven axe.
While secrecy may make it less likely that the information falls into the hands of terrorists, it cannot guaranteed that it won't. Much like corporate code secrets somehow find their way to the public knowlege as exploits.
A phone with a built in microphone? What a novel concept!
Does it matter if he is in or out of the closet?
Why couldn't you setup macros on your laptop that are triggered by BlueTooth events and use your laptop to translate those events into IR signals with some sort of USB or Serial hardware? It's certaily not the neatest solution, but I think it'd be easier than retrofitting your A/V equipment with BlueTooth.
You probably get modded down because this topic's thread is not grammar. I used to get really upset when people wouldn't take the time to spell-check or at least proof-read their posts/email/instant messages. My anger would be reflected in my reply because I would not proof-read it (anger = haste for me) and correct their spelling with errors of my own.
Grammar and spelling is a point of contention between my wife and I. She'll ask me to proofread an email she's about to send out to make sure iit "sounds good". To me, "sounds good" means: properly constructed, formatted correctly, and "get's the point across" (in that order). The problem is that she writes like she speaks, illustrating emphasis with initial capitals. It bothers her when I correct her grammar/capitalization/etc. I needed to learn to read so that I could look past the presentation and determine the meaning.
I've found that I think faster than I type and my fingers effectively "drop frames" and the meanings of sentences shift mid-sentence... unless I proofread it. Truly, haste makes waste.
According to a grammar site, sentence 3 would be proper as "The camper is theirs", so thank you.
Thanks for the reply and the correction!
- It belongs to them.
- It's their camper.
- The camper is their's.
Isn't the last statement a valid use of the word "their's" or am I completely off?I guess this means I'm not as susceptible to "Snow Crash", eh? If you've not read that book I'd highly recommend it.
I count binary on my fingers. I can count from 0 to 1024, or -511 to +511. With all of the mental conditioning, I don't even need my fingers... so there!
However, not all browsers support CSS in this manner. While you could do it, if it is a key method of navigability, you will ostracize many many users. It is my experience that more modern browsers' javascript implementation is close and feature-complete than is their CSS implementation.
As an added bonus, I find that JavaScript is very handy as a prototyping language...
Several people have mentioned that JavaScript is used only for roll-overs and such. You can do some truly wonderful UI stuff with JavaScript, such as leveraging the client's processor cycles to handle mundance but expensive tasks like sorting and layout. Sending a set of data to the client, javascript objects, CSS and laying it out at runtime is much more bandwidth-efficient than sending the formatted results of a query. PLUS, you can use javascript to pop-up a new window and get a new dataset, which can be displayed with the same code used for the original. There are SO MANY nice things you can do with JavaScript. JavaScript is a technology that nicely enhances the user experience, but certainly can be misused.