If someone really came up with better input devices, the pro computer gamers would be using them.
As for user interfaces, Starcraft players seem to manage very many actions per second.
So the challenge is to create a user interface that's friendly and usable to "noobs" but also able to augment pros/experts to their limits.
Most recent UIs seem to emphasize friendly and usable to "new users", but they neglect the case where some of those new users don't mind taking the trouble to learn to do things very very much faster.
If you say it's converted into "american food" by those factories, that's what I'm talking about - specialization etc:).
BTW I'm not saying subsidies are good.
Say the US has 1000 nonfarmers for every subsidized farmer. As long as countries buy US products (canned food, snacks, music CDs, software, hardware, military equipment, etc) some of those 1000 nonfarmers get $$$ and the US can afford to subsidize those farmers.
Whereas if some random African country has 0.5 nonfarmers for every farmer, their farmers are not going to be able to have much of subsidies.
Of course the picture is a bit more complicated because petroleum is bought and sold in US dollars and US energy companies profit from the petroleum, and much of US agriculture is basically "leveraging" petroleum for food (fertilizer, machinery, fuel etc). So the farmers are more important as a "strategic reserve", while petroleum and coal is critical:).
Why is it my problem that they aren't willing to pay the market price for broadband?
They help provide food for you and your friends.
One of the reasons why a civilization becomes "wealthy" is when one farmer can feed hundreds or even thousands.
That means those hundreds or thousands can do other things (make phones, be hair stylists, write Internet RFCs etc). Otherwise they'd all be fishing/hunting/farming to put enough food on the table.
You could of course outsource food supply to other countries. But from a big picture POV that's just sweeping it under someone else's carpet.
Of course the flip side is with all this specialization, civilization becomes a lot more fragile in some ways.
Jammers? But that'll make them use other methods of communications which may be harder to tap, intercept or block on demand.
Why don't they just install cellphone towers specifically for prisons;). If you do it right, the phones will always use your towers in preference to others.
If there are pesky laws against this maybe you could get away by having some "fine print" which "informs" the prisoners (who are unlikely to read it) that they are not allowed to use cellphones in the prison, and if they do, the comms may be tapped or even modified as the prison sees fit.
When opportunity knocks stop complaining about the noise.
You say you've had the hotmail account longer than the Yahoo and Gmail accounts
Where did I say that?
FWIW, none of those email accounts are my primary email account either. My primary has tons of spam, but since my spam filters are tolerable (not great) I'm sticking to it.
some of the restaurants issuing the most threats, are the ones that eventually went out of business. Not because of the bad review - I hope.
More likely because the bosses are not spending their resources on improving the restaurant and instead threatening/suing their customers.
The sort who'd sue their customers are likely to be the sort who'd yell at customers.
That said, some places can actually survive or even thrive despite the staff or bosses swearing at some customers - typically the food is really cheap, tastes good and doesn't cause obvious damage.
If that's the review, then the restaurant has done far more damage to themselves by suing.
Nowadays people blog about food all the time. Some are clueless (e.g. blogger doesn't seem to know that the dish is SUPPOSED to be like that:) ). But if you go around suing people who blog normal/stupid stuff you're going to go out of business.
If they falsely accused the restaurant of trying to do something _malicious_ or terribly disgusting that's easily proven false in court AND are getting a fair amount of publicity[1] then sure sue.
But sue this blogger who claims that the chicken is too tough because it's undercooked? I'd think chicken would normally be too tough when overcooked. Unless it ain't chicken...;)
[1] If they're some obscure wacko with an axe to grind, no point giving them any more publicity.
Depends on the person too (and the state the person is - fatigued, drunk etc).
If you treat "driving in real life" as a different mode from "driving game" then stuff like that just won't happen.
At least some people can be very context aware. So they have no problems switching from driving cars, flying planes, flying helicopters, riding bicycles without confusing themselves. You could still learn stuff in one mode and apply it to another, but it doesn't mean that you would automatically do the exact same things in a heli as you would in a plane (otherwise you'd be dead).
Of course if you're drunk or half-asleep or otherwise mentally impaired - then you might forget what context/mode you are in...
I wouldn't be surprised if the US has actually saved $$$ with China poisoning themselves and selling the US cheap stuff.
The real problem/question is what did the US do with the savings?
Lots of people like to demonize China. Yes China definitely does lots of evil stuff, but hey if your neighbour worked long hours in unhealthy environments to sell[1] you cheap stuff (which mostly works), whose fault is it if you spend the resulting savings on "more cheese burgers and toys you don't need" or "expensive wars with other neighbours".
[1] Even better - you paid him with money and IOUs created by your own personal printing press:).
There are many in India who are vegetarian but they consume milk and milk products. It's not the healthiest of diets though.
There's plenty of scientific research showing that having some sea fish regularly (but not too often - due mercury and other pollutants) is good for most humans.
As a tourist I may care about visiting the Golden Gate Bridge, but toll booths aren't going to be one of the attractions at all.
What I'd probably care about are the high rental car toll charges that other people have been mentioning.
So that person saying tourists would need toll booth people to greet them is silly. Toll/Ticket booths etc are just stuff tourists put up with in order to see the actual tourist attraction, whether it may be the Golden Gate Bridge, the Grand Canyon, the Pyramids.
Uh that's all the data most of their users need. Most of their users want a simple "FixIt" (that's how they often get into trouble in the first place, but that's not MS's fault). Most of these users aren't going to even know about this problem though. They'll only get a fix if MS ever releases it in a Windows Update and they have Windows Updates enabled.
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There's a difference: Steve Jobs is an asshole with taste.
So when he yells at an engineer because something is not "insanely great" enough, that engineer knows that Steve Jobs is right.
If some other asshole CEO was doing the yelling, the engineer would be thinking "when can we get this over with, I have stuff to do".
Yes you need engineers, but without someone with taste, the end product would look like a Dell or a Thinkpad. The stuff works, but...
If someone really came up with better input devices, the pro computer gamers would be using them.
As for user interfaces, Starcraft players seem to manage very many actions per second.
So the challenge is to create a user interface that's friendly and usable to "noobs" but also able to augment pros/experts to their limits.
Most recent UIs seem to emphasize friendly and usable to "new users", but they neglect the case where some of those new users don't mind taking the trouble to learn to do things very very much faster.
Actually 99% of american food doesn't come from farmers
So 99% of all that corn, wheat, pork, beef, chicken just magically springs into existence in those megacorp factories?
http://www.grains.org/corn
http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/wheat/YBtable04.asp
http://www.epa.gov/oecaagct/ag101/cropmajor.html
http://www.fas.usda.gov/dlp/circular/2010/livestock_poultryfull101510.pdf
If you say it's converted into "american food" by those factories, that's what I'm talking about - specialization etc :).
BTW I'm not saying subsidies are good.
Say the US has 1000 nonfarmers for every subsidized farmer. As long as countries buy US products (canned food, snacks, music CDs, software, hardware, military equipment, etc) some of those 1000 nonfarmers get $$$ and the US can afford to subsidize those farmers.
Whereas if some random African country has 0.5 nonfarmers for every farmer, their farmers are not going to be able to have much of subsidies.
Of course the picture is a bit more complicated because petroleum is bought and sold in US dollars and US energy companies profit from the petroleum, and much of US agriculture is basically "leveraging" petroleum for food (fertilizer, machinery, fuel etc). So the farmers are more important as a "strategic reserve", while petroleum and coal is critical :).
Sometimes you don't need to bribe the guy - just get him to brag over a few drinks, about the really cool stuff he's doing.
There are far better and cheaper spacecraft than the shuttle for putting people and other stuff into space.
;) ).
However the space shuttle is the only spacecraft that can bring a fair sized satellite down intact (at least that I'm aware of
If "private industry" doesn't need that ability, then they are better off using other spacecraft or spacecraft designs.
Why is it my problem that they aren't willing to pay the market price for broadband?
They help provide food for you and your friends.
One of the reasons why a civilization becomes "wealthy" is when one farmer can feed hundreds or even thousands.
That means those hundreds or thousands can do other things (make phones, be hair stylists, write Internet RFCs etc). Otherwise they'd all be fishing/hunting/farming to put enough food on the table.
You could of course outsource food supply to other countries. But from a big picture POV that's just sweeping it under someone else's carpet.
Of course the flip side is with all this specialization, civilization becomes a lot more fragile in some ways.
He/she can easily carry it and use it on a plane for 5-6 hours? :)
The US Gov should start getting US citizens better internet access than think about "forcing internet" on others.
http://www.teletruth.org/docs/broadbandscandalfree.pdf
Yet, my ex had dropped doing her lithium, had attempted suicide multiple times in her life, and had threatened other ppl.
See that's a difference between men and women, and why cops etc don't take it as seriously.
Most women don't do a good job of killing, even when it comes to themselves ;).
Whereas if a guy has started the process of killing, the target will be dead if nothing else stops him.
Nah that's not the problem.
:).
They just need to consume more fries and cola (and keep away from that grilled fish and green tea). Then they'd have fewer elderly
Surprisingly they smoke quite a lot and they're still not dropping dead quite fast enough for their economy.
Would it change if the DHS is getting in the way of congressmen who are a threat to the congressweasels?
Jammers? But that'll make them use other methods of communications which may be harder to tap, intercept or block on demand.
;). If you do it right, the phones will always use your towers in preference to others.
Why don't they just install cellphone towers specifically for prisons
If there are pesky laws against this maybe you could get away by having some "fine print" which "informs" the prisoners (who are unlikely to read it) that they are not allowed to use cellphones in the prison, and if they do, the comms may be tapped or even modified as the prison sees fit.
When opportunity knocks stop complaining about the noise.
You say you've had the hotmail account longer than the Yahoo and Gmail accounts
Where did I say that?
FWIW, none of those email accounts are my primary email account either. My primary has tons of spam, but since my spam filters are tolerable (not great) I'm sticking to it.
These throwaway hotmail accounts are too little too late for me.
:).
I get so much spam on my hotmail account that it's kind of my throwaway account already. Nowadays I only bother to check it once every few months
In contrast my yahoo and gmail accounts don't get even the same magnitude of spam passing the spam filters.
Does it happen when they completely turn off the phone?
:).
If it still happens then it's AT&T's fault.
If it doesn't then it could be Apple's fault
some of the restaurants issuing the most threats, are the ones that eventually went out of business. Not because of the bad review - I hope.
More likely because the bosses are not spending their resources on improving the restaurant and instead threatening/suing their customers.
The sort who'd sue their customers are likely to be the sort who'd yell at customers.
That said, some places can actually survive or even thrive despite the staff or bosses swearing at some customers - typically the food is really cheap, tastes good and doesn't cause obvious damage.
If that's the review, then the restaurant has done far more damage to themselves by suing.
:) ). But if you go around suing people who blog normal/stupid stuff you're going to go out of business.
;)
Nowadays people blog about food all the time. Some are clueless (e.g. blogger doesn't seem to know that the dish is SUPPOSED to be like that
If they falsely accused the restaurant of trying to do something _malicious_ or terribly disgusting that's easily proven false in court AND are getting a fair amount of publicity[1] then sure sue.
But sue this blogger who claims that the chicken is too tough because it's undercooked? I'd think chicken would normally be too tough when overcooked. Unless it ain't chicken...
[1] If they're some obscure wacko with an axe to grind, no point giving them any more publicity.
Depends on the person too (and the state the person is - fatigued, drunk etc).
If you treat "driving in real life" as a different mode from "driving game" then stuff like that just won't happen.
At least some people can be very context aware. So they have no problems switching from driving cars, flying planes, flying helicopters, riding bicycles without confusing themselves. You could still learn stuff in one mode and apply it to another, but it doesn't mean that you would automatically do the exact same things in a heli as you would in a plane (otherwise you'd be dead).
Of course if you're drunk or half-asleep or otherwise mentally impaired - then you might forget what context/mode you are in...
I wouldn't be surprised if the US has actually saved $$$ with China poisoning themselves and selling the US cheap stuff.
:).
The real problem/question is what did the US do with the savings?
Lots of people like to demonize China. Yes China definitely does lots of evil stuff, but hey if your neighbour worked long hours in unhealthy environments to sell[1] you cheap stuff (which mostly works), whose fault is it if you spend the resulting savings on "more cheese burgers and toys you don't need" or "expensive wars with other neighbours".
[1] Even better - you paid him with money and IOUs created by your own personal printing press
There are many in India who are vegetarian but they consume milk and milk products. It's not the healthiest of diets though.
There's plenty of scientific research showing that having some sea fish regularly (but not too often - due mercury and other pollutants) is good for most humans.
Maybe the hologram only works for left-right, and not up-down.
As a tourist I may care about visiting the Golden Gate Bridge, but toll booths aren't going to be one of the attractions at all.
What I'd probably care about are the high rental car toll charges that other people have been mentioning.
So that person saying tourists would need toll booth people to greet them is silly. Toll/Ticket booths etc are just stuff tourists put up with in order to see the actual tourist attraction, whether it may be the Golden Gate Bridge, the Grand Canyon, the Pyramids.
They might also be considering NAT to delay moving to IPv6.
Uh that's all the data most of their users need. Most of their users want a simple "FixIt" (that's how they often get into trouble in the first place, but that's not MS's fault). Most of these users aren't going to even know about this problem though. They'll only get a fix if MS ever releases it in a Windows Update and they have Windows Updates enabled.
As for the rest of the users who actually care to know more: https://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2501696.mspx
The very few who are that interested can find out even more details themselves.
So it's inaccurate to say MS doesn't give a shit about this problem.
It's not a big deal.
The practice of stupid security questions is far worse, and seems to be about as common if not more.
Those reduce the security for "normal" users more than passwords being case insensitive and truncated to 8 characters.