Has the internet really lowered my attention span that much? I used to be a good reader:(
could be related to the medium: I don't like to read longer texts (say, more than one screen) on a monitor. Electronic documents are great for skimming/searching (like documentation or handbooks) but for short stories like this one paper wins*. [though I don't own a pad or specialised ebook reader, those may be game-changers]
The principle behind the decision to have an alphabetical keyboard is based on a misunderstanding. I believe that the idea is this: not everybody knows qwerty (it's an odd feeling actually typing qwerty as a word. Try it and you'll see what I mean) but everybody knows the alphabet. This true but irrelevant. People know the alphabet as a one dimensional string, not as a two-dimensional array, so you're going to have to hunt and peck anyway.
The delay of BlackBerry 10 is not because we added stuff to it. The delay is because our software groups were actually so successful in coding the [..components and building blocks..] that when we put them into the main "trunk line," [..] we got overwhelmed by integration efforts.
so adding stuff is bad, but adding components is good?
and I'm kind of proud to be an European. This was the first time were I recognized some "we, the people" feeling - the EU is mostly a bureaucratic umbrella and we have many democratic deficits.
But take a look at this, protests all over the continent, finally some pan-European atmosphere.
Neither top-to-bottom nor some organized spectacle (e.g. Euro2012 [football championship]) - great!
We trust that this is not the end of the legal development, and that the EU Member States as well as the European Commission will be doing all they can to protect innovation and investment in Europe’s technology industry and to prevent business models which threaten both.
[as a side note: in Germany, a Dr. in front of the name is an important status symbol, it is really unlikely to see a governing body of any bigger company/state agency/whatever with only one doctorate. Interesting, I saw your doctor comment and automagically expected lot's of Dr.'s, my German POV was wrong...]
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Dawn is interesting as it is the first purely exploratory space craft to primarily use ion thrusters
what about Deep Space 1 and Hayabusa?
It is not "censorship". It is "Emergency Resource Allocation Management".
how fitting, the University of Bradford uses ERaM as acronym for the Ethnicity, Racism and the Media Programme...
But 'CETA' == 'ACTA'.
PHP?
Has the internet really lowered my attention span that much? I used to be a good reader :(
could be related to the medium: I don't like to read longer texts (say, more than one screen) on a monitor. Electronic documents are great for skimming/searching (like documentation or handbooks) but for short stories like this one paper wins*. [though I don't own a pad or specialised ebook reader, those may be game-changers]
*) and everything else I read for fun
It would have made sense if people adopted the abcdef keyboard (alphabetical)
Douglas Adams answered this one many years ago:
The principle behind the decision to have an alphabetical keyboard is based on a misunderstanding. I believe that the idea is this: not everybody knows qwerty (it's an odd feeling actually typing qwerty as a word. Try it and you'll see what I mean) but everybody knows the alphabet. This true but irrelevant. People know the alphabet as a one dimensional string, not as a two-dimensional array, so you're going to have to hunt and peck anyway.
and another one:
The delay of BlackBerry 10 is not because we added stuff to it. The delay is because our software groups were actually so successful in coding the [..components and building blocks..] that when we put them into the main "trunk line," [..] we got overwhelmed by integration efforts.
so adding stuff is bad, but adding components is good?
mmmkay...
just follow the money....
So this was... legal malware?
Hacking / security testing software is legal, it's its usage that could be illegal.
not in Germany. Sigh, stupid politicians...
I liked your version of this comment with the three trailing dots more
and I'm kind of proud to be an European. This was the first time were I recognized some "we, the people" feeling - the EU is mostly a bureaucratic umbrella and we have many democratic deficits.
But take a look at this, protests all over the continent, finally some pan-European atmosphere.
Neither top-to-bottom nor some organized spectacle (e.g. Euro2012 [football championship]) - great!
Also, it's odd to see how much worse ATLAS was.
Atlas shrugged, though the evil spirit Cms won again :)
depends. grammar and vocabulary corrections are helpful*, given that the comment is witty and/or polite.
*) English is not my 1st langugage, too
... I wouldn't want a remote-controllable power switch to be available to 3rd parties
this.
and the list should be extended, e.g. water, gas, internet, telephony, ...
is this Yoshitaka Fujii a worthy novelist? if his writing style is appealing I see a second career chance :)
afaik Mozilla includes the expat parser
I expect them to throw their resources at legislative change to "fix" this European problem.
you're dead-on.
Oracle's press release says:
We trust that this is not the end of the legal development, and that the EU Member States as well as the European Commission will be doing all they can to protect innovation and investment in Europe’s technology industry and to prevent business models which threaten both.
or - in short - WE HATE YOUR LAWS. CHANGE THEM.
Scanners belong in doctors' offices, not airports.
like Dr. Emma Garrison-Alexander?
[as a side note: in Germany, a Dr. in front of the name is an important status symbol, it is really unlikely to see a governing body of any bigger company/state agency/whatever with only one doctorate. Interesting, I saw your doctor comment and automagically expected lot's of Dr.'s, my German POV was wrong...]
10k processor hours are free*
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[completely off-topic]
I saw your comment while meta-modding and ROFLed. There was a time Apple had no fans? And they had to introduce the fan(bois)?
The marketing effort was successful :)
I was impressed by Andre Kuiper's images - he really made space as grant as I ever imagined it.
His Flickr stream is the greatest way to waste time.
not on a "must be this intelligent" basis
thanks for explaining! I always wondered why I'm part of the 15 mod points crowd ;)
.. valid reason .. good faith
you must be new here :)
What would you call them? Journalists?
maybe you're right, it's mostly resentment on my part.
"historians say" is such a hollow phrase, in an Ideal World(tm) the media would be a little bit more accurate...
we need historians to get informations about an only 30 year old technology?
not a good sign for human knowledge, 30 years are within this generation, not some long forgotten aeon...
I liked Gnome 2, but Gnome 3 sucks (or sucked? I never looked back...). I switched to Fedora's LXDE spin - not as familiar as Gnome 2, but usable.