Unfortunately, filling the screen with hundreds of pull-down menus or text boxes would have confused the hell out of their target audience
Hundreds of pull down menus is NEVER a good design. A hundred knobs and sliders is far better than that sort of insanity,
and although it has issues they are nothing compared to the issues pull down menus, combo boxes, and the sort would bring.
An audio engineer does not want to hunt through a menu in order to adjust something. Especially engineers that work in real-time, which is a hell of a lot of them these days. Even the bigger podcasts have an audio engineer sitting at a quite large mixer board with easily several hundred necessary knobs and sliders.
No, I'm using money not to define wealth, but as a convenient benchmark.
Convenient in that you can be dishonest about what wealth is by saying this is wealth.
Transport yourself back in time and you would make the argument that the rich are wealthy and you would give as reason that they dont have to do things like wash their own clothes, hunt their own food, carry buckets of water to their homes, and so on.
I think the term that you should use to be more clear is "standard of living" rather than wealth
Standard of living deals with wellbeing ("comfort") as well as wealth.
China is growing to eventually be the wealthiest country in the world because its citizens are producing more and more goods and services. Thats more proof that wealth is goods and services. I've given example after example how wealth is goods and services, but still you will deny this and its because you have a naive cash envy.
So if Bill Gates retired to a private island or a ranch in Montana, he would no longer be rich?
The fact that Bill Gates would always be able to travel to where goods and services are, or have them transported to him, is a red herring. If he is on some tropical island somewhere, then it takes far more money to enjoy the same goods and services than than if he was where the goods and services were to begin with. This alone proves that money isnt wealth.
You are grasping to define wealth as money when it isn't. Consider health-care.
Thats a service that in countries that have socialized medicine requires no money from those that partake. It is a part of everyones wealth, even people who are not only broke, but even people severely in debt. Goods and services are wealth. Money is only a tool, and not the only one, used to partake in wealth.
A forest, a saw, and some manpower. With it you can build a house. The forest isnt a house. The saw isn't a house. The manpower isnt a house.
You are probably using an equivalent smart-phone as Bill Gates. In the arena of smart-phones you are just as wealthy as he is. A smart-phone is both a good and a service, and he cant really do any better than middle class America.. Do you think Bill Gates 4K television is less likely to brick than yours? Do you think his refrigerator keeps food unspoiled longer? Do you think he gets a special netflix plan? All of these things are real wealth, and you both have it better than most of the people on the planet.
Meanwhile in Africa some people spend a dozen hours per week cleaning their clothes by scrubbing them by hand. The rich in America never had to manually wash their own clothes, not even during the revolutionary war. Now pretty much nobody in America has to do that, neither the rich nor the poor. Washing machines are wealth. Goods and services.
The north east doesnt have this issue, the east coast in general not having much issues.
National broadband map Enable all of the top row items to see the real issue. The left coast just doesnt have the infrastructure over very wide swaths. Its all local problems in States whose people that think the Federal government should solve all their local problems for them. I dont know a single left coast person that knows jack about local politics.
Meanwhile in the north east clear through to Chicago just about everyone over the age of 60 is involved in local political matters on some level often in combination with local church matters, and this activity and knowledge transfers to their children and grandchildren based on the issues. People in the north east know when their local cable franchise agreements are up for re-issue, as well as when things like liquor licenses are going to be issues or renewed. North east people are politically active on a local level. They are an active part of their community. Dont know anyone on the left coast like that.
This is probably in a poorly run city as well, where the roads literally have to be dug up to add fiber. I've noticed that this completely moronic setup is extremely common in left coast township municipalities. They bury the lines, but dont have anyway to access it one buried. On the east coast these same sort of townships have everything on telephone poles where adding/upgrading just isnt an issue.
Meanwhile some posters are complaining about Seattle w/Centurylink in particular. Do these fucks even know who is in the Seattle town council? Based on their posts here, my guess is that no, they have no idea at all, because they are always talking about a federal solution to their wholly local issues that is enabled by their complete ignorance of local political matters.
What count is not the absolute value of your earning, but what do you earn compared to the standard of living of your local region.
Thats a vague, complicated, and off-the-mark definition.
Your wealth is defined by the goods and services that you can partake in.
A supposed "wealthy" person that lives in the middle of nowhere, with no internet, no cable t.v., the nearest hospital 200 miles away, the nearest store 50 miles away, the nearest restaurant 100 miles away... isnt actually living a wealthy life. Now they might like this lifestyle, and it may take a certain amount of money (not wealth) to pull this off, but wealthy they are not. Money is never wealth. Goods and services are wealth.
Telemetry, he said, has shown that it confuses (some?) users, that's why it was removed.
If "confuses (some?) users" is even approximately the litmus test, then say goodbye to every single feature and dont stop there. You can say goodbye to things like the "back" button too.
Shit doesnt get much more mainstream that having two classes of Citizens entirely based on their religion.
There are the Jewish. The most rights and freedoms.
There are non-Jewish that are Citizens. Significantly fewer rights and freedoms.
There are also the non-Jewish that are also non-Citizens. Fewest rights and no freedoms. All their rights are subject to the timely whims of the Israeli military, but I cannot hold a country to account for how it treats its non-citizens unless its extremely heinous.
This is a "Western" supposedly "enlightened" country here, not some 3rd world shit-hole, and its got bigotry baked right into the law. We can argue about if its right or wrong, but its a fact.
Pretty sure Hitlers actions proved that he was more interested in Killing The Jews than he was in Winning The War.
I posit this simple argument:
If Hitler was rational he would have enslaved all the Jews and used them to bolster his war machine. Instead when things were going bad on the war front he significantly ramped up the killing.
I don't see any oscillations happening any time soon in America. The Democrats have continued to lose election after election while spending lots more money.
Its the Internet age - when your actions dont match your words - people wont vote for you - The least-liar wins current elections. This may change, or who the biggest liars are may change, but the Internet has brought a paradigm shift away from the Mass Media narratives holding anywhere near as much sway as they once did.
In 2001 to number was down to 34 States that still required passing civics in order to graduate high school. By 2012 the number was down to only 9 States that still required passing civics to graduate high school:
Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia
So yes, essentially they did stop teaching civics entirely.
VLC has been hit or miss for me across many versions and multiple computer systems over the years.
Sometimes it just works. Other times you gotta tweak some bullshit that no other player requires you to tweak (such as imposing a "this value works" audio latency) at least in the case of video.
Because of this I do not recommend it to anyone. On windows I tell people to get Media Player Classic and then if necessary also the Matroska mkv codecs. I frown on pushing people towards the codec hell, which is why I do not send anyone towards any roll-up of many codecs that seem to be a common and horrible suggestion that other people make.
Core Audio post-dates winamp and foobar by about a decade for the former and about 4 years for the later.
It was introduced with Vista or 7 (can't remember which) and the other original audio API's (MMSYS, DirectSound, etc.) were then re-factored to use the new Core Audio API's rather than to talk to the hardware directly themselves.
It is unfortunate that they screwed up Core Audio with some wholly unnecessary vestiges of Microsoft's COM crap (still uses COM variants as a data-type, so you gotta pull in an entire COM framework if you want to really do it right)
Winamp wasnt great for its features although at the time it even played "tracker" files. Winamp was great because it wasn't bloated by any stretch of the imagination. I imagine most if not all the code is a mix of C and Assembler without several massive monolithic frameworks linked into it like just about everything has these days.
The explosion of formats however makes re-inventing all these wheels a daunting task, so all the players are now codec hells.
Non-specific definitions are not allowed within specific meanings.
When a "specific meaning" has a non-specific definition, it is merely a hand waving assertion that a specific meaning exists.
You can wave your hands all day long about this, but you will still be dead wrong. This "dont look at the flaws of my argument" mentality that you have is very stupid and dumb. its kind of sad, really.
"Protected class" does NOT have a "specific meaning" as you claim.
The definition includes "race", "gender", and so on, not "black", "woman", and so on.
What you think it means is clearly the later, but you have clearly shown time and again that you arent very good as a thinker, let alone as a good fact checker (such as just now)
White men are a protected class in at least 2 ways that make a class protected, which are race and gender. Not sounding like a "specific meaning" any more, does it? Yeah.. because you are full of shit.
If he doesn't live where he works, he probably can't vote on local issues that effect housing there.
Oh well then! Nothing can be done!
/snark
Do you know who your local town council is, and what they do?
There is a reason that the east coast doesnt generally have this issue. We have the notion that when its our problem that WE need to do something about it, rather than that SOMEONE needs to do something about it.
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Unfortunately, filling the screen with hundreds of pull-down menus or text boxes would have confused the hell out of their target audience
Hundreds of pull down menus is NEVER a good design. A hundred knobs and sliders is far better than that sort of insanity, and although it has issues they are nothing compared to the issues pull down menus, combo boxes, and the sort would bring.
An audio engineer does not want to hunt through a menu in order to adjust something. Especially engineers that work in real-time, which is a hell of a lot of them these days. Even the bigger podcasts have an audio engineer sitting at a quite large mixer board with easily several hundred necessary knobs and sliders.
No, I'm using money not to define wealth, but as a convenient benchmark.
Convenient in that you can be dishonest about what wealth is by saying this is wealth.
Transport yourself back in time and you would make the argument that the rich are wealthy and you would give as reason that they dont have to do things like wash their own clothes, hunt their own food, carry buckets of water to their homes, and so on.
I think the term that you should use to be more clear is "standard of living" rather than wealth
Standard of living deals with wellbeing ("comfort") as well as wealth.
China is growing to eventually be the wealthiest country in the world because its citizens are producing more and more goods and services. Thats more proof that wealth is goods and services. I've given example after example how wealth is goods and services, but still you will deny this and its because you have a naive cash envy.
So if Bill Gates retired to a private island or a ranch in Montana, he would no longer be rich?
The fact that Bill Gates would always be able to travel to where goods and services are, or have them transported to him, is a red herring. If he is on some tropical island somewhere, then it takes far more money to enjoy the same goods and services than than if he was where the goods and services were to begin with. This alone proves that money isnt wealth.
You are grasping to define wealth as money when it isn't. Consider health-care.
Thats a service that in countries that have socialized medicine requires no money from those that partake. It is a part of everyones wealth, even people who are not only broke, but even people severely in debt. Goods and services are wealth. Money is only a tool, and not the only one, used to partake in wealth.
A forest, a saw, and some manpower. With it you can build a house. The forest isnt a house. The saw isn't a house. The manpower isnt a house.
You are probably using an equivalent smart-phone as Bill Gates. In the arena of smart-phones you are just as wealthy as he is. A smart-phone is both a good and a service, and he cant really do any better than middle class America.. Do you think Bill Gates 4K television is less likely to brick than yours? Do you think his refrigerator keeps food unspoiled longer? Do you think he gets a special netflix plan? All of these things are real wealth, and you both have it better than most of the people on the planet.
Meanwhile in Africa some people spend a dozen hours per week cleaning their clothes by scrubbing them by hand. The rich in America never had to manually wash their own clothes, not even during the revolutionary war. Now pretty much nobody in America has to do that, neither the rich nor the poor. Washing machines are wealth. Goods and services.
The north east doesnt have this issue, the east coast in general not having much issues.
National broadband map Enable all of the top row items to see the real issue. The left coast just doesnt have the infrastructure over very wide swaths. Its all local problems in States whose people that think the Federal government should solve all their local problems for them. I dont know a single left coast person that knows jack about local politics.
Meanwhile in the north east clear through to Chicago just about everyone over the age of 60 is involved in local political matters on some level often in combination with local church matters, and this activity and knowledge transfers to their children and grandchildren based on the issues. People in the north east know when their local cable franchise agreements are up for re-issue, as well as when things like liquor licenses are going to be issues or renewed. North east people are politically active on a local level. They are an active part of their community. Dont know anyone on the left coast like that.
This is probably in a poorly run city as well, where the roads literally have to be dug up to add fiber. I've noticed that this completely moronic setup is extremely common in left coast township municipalities. They bury the lines, but dont have anyway to access it one buried. On the east coast these same sort of townships have everything on telephone poles where adding/upgrading just isnt an issue.
Meanwhile some posters are complaining about Seattle w/Centurylink in particular. Do these fucks even know who is in the Seattle town council? Based on their posts here, my guess is that no, they have no idea at all, because they are always talking about a federal solution to their wholly local issues that is enabled by their complete ignorance of local political matters.
What count is not the absolute value of your earning, but what do you earn compared to the standard of living of your local region.
Thats a vague, complicated, and off-the-mark definition.
Your wealth is defined by the goods and services that you can partake in.
A supposed "wealthy" person that lives in the middle of nowhere, with no internet, no cable t.v., the nearest hospital 200 miles away, the nearest store 50 miles away, the nearest restaurant 100 miles away... isnt actually living a wealthy life. Now they might like this lifestyle, and it may take a certain amount of money (not wealth) to pull this off, but wealthy they are not. Money is never wealth. Goods and services are wealth.
These tax breaks are an admission that the State has a bad tax policy. Instead of fixing it, they do this.
Zuckerberg will run R
Then he's got no shot. Republicans hate him.
Thats now Libertarian, not Liberal.
Telemetry, he said, has shown that it confuses (some?) users, that's why it was removed.
If "confuses (some?) users" is even approximately the litmus test, then say goodbye to every single feature and dont stop there. You can say goodbye to things like the "back" button too.
You have obviously missed the court cases
Contract disputes between the municipality and the company. The municipality signed the contract. Thats the government.
The money collected selling these "smart labels" might need laundering at some point.
How about the Apartheid in Israel?
Shit doesnt get much more mainstream that having two classes of Citizens entirely based on their religion.
There are the Jewish. The most rights and freedoms.
There are non-Jewish that are Citizens. Significantly fewer rights and freedoms.
There are also the non-Jewish that are also non-Citizens. Fewest rights and no freedoms. All their rights are subject to the timely whims of the Israeli military, but I cannot hold a country to account for how it treats its non-citizens unless its extremely heinous.
This is a "Western" supposedly "enlightened" country here, not some 3rd world shit-hole, and its got bigotry baked right into the law. We can argue about if its right or wrong, but its a fact.
Pretty sure Hitlers actions proved that he was more interested in Killing The Jews than he was in Winning The War.
I posit this simple argument:
If Hitler was rational he would have enslaved all the Jews and used them to bolster his war machine. Instead when things were going bad on the war front he significantly ramped up the killing.
I don't see any oscillations happening any time soon in America. The Democrats have continued to lose election after election while spending lots more money.
Its the Internet age - when your actions dont match your words - people wont vote for you - The least-liar wins current elections. This may change, or who the biggest liars are may change, but the Internet has brought a paradigm shift away from the Mass Media narratives holding anywhere near as much sway as they once did.
It's like they stopped teaching civics entirely.
In 2001 to number was down to 34 States that still required passing civics in order to graduate high school. By 2012 the number was down to only 9 States that still required passing civics to graduate high school:
Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia
So yes, essentially they did stop teaching civics entirely.
VLC has been hit or miss for me across many versions and multiple computer systems over the years.
Sometimes it just works. Other times you gotta tweak some bullshit that no other player requires you to tweak (such as imposing a "this value works" audio latency) at least in the case of video.
Because of this I do not recommend it to anyone. On windows I tell people to get Media Player Classic and then if necessary also the Matroska mkv codecs. I frown on pushing people towards the codec hell, which is why I do not send anyone towards any roll-up of many codecs that seem to be a common and horrible suggestion that other people make.
Core Audio post-dates winamp and foobar by about a decade for the former and about 4 years for the later.
It was introduced with Vista or 7 (can't remember which) and the other original audio API's (MMSYS, DirectSound, etc.) were then re-factored to use the new Core Audio API's rather than to talk to the hardware directly themselves.
It is unfortunate that they screwed up Core Audio with some wholly unnecessary vestiges of Microsoft's COM crap (still uses COM variants as a data-type, so you gotta pull in an entire COM framework if you want to really do it right)
Yes this!
Winamp wasnt great for its features although at the time it even played "tracker" files. Winamp was great because it wasn't bloated by any stretch of the imagination. I imagine most if not all the code is a mix of C and Assembler without several massive monolithic frameworks linked into it like just about everything has these days.
The explosion of formats however makes re-inventing all these wheels a daunting task, so all the players are now codec hells.
I agree.
Snowden is a hero that responsibly leaked.
Manning is a traitor that irresponsibly leaked.
There is a right way to do things, sometimes even several right ways. Manning didnt do any of them.
Non-specific definitions are not allowed within specific meanings.
When a "specific meaning" has a non-specific definition, it is merely a hand waving assertion that a specific meaning exists.
You can wave your hands all day long about this, but you will still be dead wrong. This "dont look at the flaws of my argument" mentality that you have is very stupid and dumb. its kind of sad, really.
"Protected class" does NOT have a "specific meaning" as you claim.
The definition includes "race", "gender", and so on, not "black", "woman", and so on.
What you think it means is clearly the later, but you have clearly shown time and again that you arent very good as a thinker, let alone as a good fact checker (such as just now)
White men are a protected class in at least 2 ways that make a class protected, which are race and gender. Not sounding like a "specific meaning" any more, does it? Yeah.. because you are full of shit.
If he doesn't live where he works, he probably can't vote on local issues that effect housing there.
Oh well then! Nothing can be done!
/snark
Do you know who your local town council is, and what they do?
There is a reason that the east coast doesnt generally have this issue. We have the notion that when its our problem that WE need to do something about it, rather than that SOMEONE needs to do something about it.
You forget that this is the search company that can't search a single 10-page document for what the company claims is in it.
Thats a pretty good way of doing it so long as you dont intend to make an informed decision.
Uninformed decisions, however, arent correlated with fixing any specific problems.