I can locate TVs, monitors(CRTs, malfunctioning LCDs), DVD players, and some PSUs and Mobos by the sounds they make. Some devices still make sounds when "off", and others don't. Even some power bricks make annoying sounds. Some cordless phones do too; one actually gave me headaches, but most don't.
Hearing the electronic whine is unusual? I've never heard cordless phones, I've heard all the rest at some point. And I've never known anyone to be incapable of hearing a CRT TV.
I don't like crowds, because I have trouble understanding what people are saying over the background noise.:/
Ditto, but I don't think that is related to hearing electronics. There's just too much background noise. It's much like trying to see something in the direction of the sun. Too much unimportant light.
Are there any senses we can train ourselves to use more permanently? i.e. I don't particularly want to wear a bulky belt for directional perception, and I really don't want a belt that needs batteries replaced every few days. Tricks like position of the sun work, but are not reliable 24-7.
I kid you not, last week our net-admin comes into my office and asks, completely seriously, "Is the internet broken?"
I would use that exact phrase with coworkers if I was trying to figure out how widespread my connectivity issues are (local machine? everyone connected to the switch? the entire network?) I won't literally mean "Is the Internet broken?", I would mean "Is it working for you, or do we have an upstream outage?"
If the person replies "I don't know about cars, it's just broken!" and can't provide any more information you can bet that person will be billed for a 700 dollar "johnson rod replacement"...
I got lucky. I only needed my blinker fluid replaced.
But I'd expect a mechanic to look at me sideways if I couldn't identify the steering wheel, you know?
Surely we've all heard the anecdotes where users think:
CD Drive = Cup holder
Mouse = Foot pedal
Keyboard = Computer (thieves stole all the keyboards from a lab full of PCs around the time Apple IIs were in decline)
Monitor = Some sort of magical scanner that can see them or something they hold in front of it.
But that can take a while -- hours, at some companies -- and time is money, isn't it? Often, the problem is something utterly simple that the user could have dealt with himself if he wanted to learn just a little bit -- saving himself a lot of time in the process so he can get back to business.
All the more reason not to learn, if you don't have a problem with deadlines. It's an unscheduled, possibly long, paid break.
So you don't place any value on your time? You could say that you won't charge for time because it's your friend, but in that case you probably wouldn't charge for gas either.
Charging for time encourages fixing the problem and only fixing the problem. When I work on a machine that I haven't been maintaining, I like to tune it as best I can. Turn of auto-run updaters, background processes, and most visual effects, run Spybot's Immunization, run CCleaner, defrag...
It can take a while.
Look how recently the average white person thought that the black person wasn't the same species.
Was that the popular opinion, or just propaganda of those in the slave trade or segregationists?
It would be difficult to push arguments regarding physiotypes if Native/Latin Americans and Asians were acknowledged as human.
Major war? The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost the life of ~6000 US men and women in the armed forces.
Wikipedia says 4,296 (4,614 total coalition, excluding Iraqi police forces).
Sure, thats a lot. But when compared to many battles of WWII thats a small amount, the invasion of Normandy alone took the lives of 1/6th that number, and that was slightly longer than a month. These wars have been dragging on for over 5 years.
Individual American Civil War battles cost more lives than all of Iraq. Both sides in the Battle of Gettysburg lost nearly 4 times as many (using your 6,000 figure).
'... some applications have changed a lot more than others. The ribbon seems to be on every application now, which is great for consistency's sake.... The biggest change, in my opinion, is that the no file/orb menu is no longer a menu. When you click the colored office button, you get a screen that is shown in the second screenshot for each application.'
Meh. What we really want to know is: How's the ODF compatibility?
Reading that, especially the last part, convinces me you aren't serious. It would take a ridiculous amount of ignorance to sincerely use those quotes so out of context.
Oh, and regarding the sleep apnia. IIRC it is basically snoring exaggerated to the point that the person can no longer breathe for several minutes, until oxygen deprivation wakes them up (so they now need to start over with the REM cycle). This occurs several times throughout the night, so they are still exhausted in the morning.
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I can locate TVs, monitors(CRTs, malfunctioning LCDs), DVD players, and some PSUs and Mobos by the sounds they make. Some devices still make sounds when "off", and others don't. Even some power bricks make annoying sounds. Some cordless phones do too; one actually gave me headaches, but most don't.
Hearing the electronic whine is unusual? I've never heard cordless phones, I've heard all the rest at some point. And I've never known anyone to be incapable of hearing a CRT TV.
I don't like crowds, because I have trouble understanding what people are saying over the background noise. :/
Ditto, but I don't think that is related to hearing electronics. There's just too much background noise. It's much like trying to see something in the direction of the sun. Too much unimportant light.
Are there any senses we can train ourselves to use more permanently? i.e. I don't particularly want to wear a bulky belt for directional perception, and I really don't want a belt that needs batteries replaced every few days. Tricks like position of the sun work, but are not reliable 24-7.
Example: what direction is "down?"
Towards the enemy's gate.
I never take anything they say as being correct except for having some kind of problem.
Sometimes not even that.
I kid you not, last week our net-admin comes into my office and asks, completely seriously, "Is the internet broken?"
I would use that exact phrase with coworkers if I was trying to figure out how widespread my connectivity issues are (local machine? everyone connected to the switch? the entire network?) I won't literally mean "Is the Internet broken?", I would mean "Is it working for you, or do we have an upstream outage?"
If the person replies "I don't know about cars, it's just broken!" and can't provide any more information you can bet that person will be billed for a 700 dollar "johnson rod replacement"...
I got lucky. I only needed my blinker fluid replaced.
But I'd expect a mechanic to look at me sideways if I couldn't identify the steering wheel, you know?
Surely we've all heard the anecdotes where users think:
CD Drive = Cup holder
Mouse = Foot pedal
Keyboard = Computer (thieves stole all the keyboards from a lab full of PCs around the time Apple IIs were in decline)
Monitor = Some sort of magical scanner that can see them or something they hold in front of it.
But that can take a while -- hours, at some companies -- and time is money, isn't it? Often, the problem is something utterly simple that the user could have dealt with himself if he wanted to learn just a little bit -- saving himself a lot of time in the process so he can get back to business.
All the more reason not to learn, if you don't have a problem with deadlines. It's an unscheduled, possibly long, paid break.
So you don't place any value on your time? You could say that you won't charge for time because it's your friend, but in that case you probably wouldn't charge for gas either.
Charging for time encourages fixing the problem and only fixing the problem. When I work on a machine that I haven't been maintaining, I like to tune it as best I can. Turn of auto-run updaters, background processes, and most visual effects, run Spybot's Immunization, run CCleaner, defrag...
It can take a while.
Very nice. This should vastly improve my wikipedia click trails.
What would make sense is ripping out everything not absolutely required for rendering HTML (even tabs) and providing a set of official plugins.
I dunno about a native Windows implementation, but graphics card control panels (especially NVidia) provide that functionality.
Any strategist knows that there has to be several of them; it would be completely foolish to think there's only one.
It's easier to keep it hidden than to build a replacement and keep that hidden.
Look how recently the average white person thought that the black person wasn't the same species
Is 500 years "recent"? (we are not dealing with geological time scales here) Noone alive today knew anyone that was alive back then.
The only reason you occupy a foreign country is for Political reasons.
The occupation of Post-WWII Japan?
But that was in the 1500's. Long before the US even existed.
Look how recently the average white person thought that the black person wasn't the same species.
Was that the popular opinion, or just propaganda of those in the slave trade or segregationists?
It would be difficult to push arguments regarding physiotypes if Native/Latin Americans and Asians were acknowledged as human.
Major war? The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost the life of ~6000 US men and women in the armed forces.
Wikipedia says 4,296 (4,614 total coalition, excluding Iraqi police forces).
Sure, thats a lot. But when compared to many battles of WWII thats a small amount, the invasion of Normandy alone took the lives of 1/6th that number, and that was slightly longer than a month. These wars have been dragging on for over 5 years.
Individual American Civil War battles cost more lives than all of Iraq. Both sides in the Battle of Gettysburg lost nearly 4 times as many (using your 6,000 figure).
That may be the case for you, but the fact is there is nothing along the lines of Microsoft Vizio in OpenOffice.
On that note, would you mind telling me what it is that Visio does?
'... some applications have changed a lot more than others. The ribbon seems to be on every application now, which is great for consistency's sake. ... The biggest change, in my opinion, is that the no file/orb menu is no longer a menu. When you click the colored office button, you get a screen that is shown in the second screenshot for each application.'
Meh. What we really want to know is: How's the ODF compatibility?
Bear in mind that the photo is being taken...during the daytime...
Definitely should have taken the picture at night.
Also on 3.0.10, but for me it pulled up the download dialogue.
IIRC, that plan eventually backfired on the Asgard.
Reading that, especially the last part, convinces me you aren't serious. It would take a ridiculous amount of ignorance to sincerely use those quotes so out of context.
Oh, and regarding the sleep apnia. IIRC it is basically snoring exaggerated to the point that the person can no longer breathe for several minutes, until oxygen deprivation wakes them up (so they now need to start over with the REM cycle). This occurs several times throughout the night, so they are still exhausted in the morning.
This poll suggests that it is quite normal to occasionally go a day or two without sleep. It only reports the survivors, but still....
,'I'm a guy who doesn't see anything good having come from the Internet, period.'
I say we spam him with goatse until he repents.
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