The highways of our great country are paid for communally. We all pay a little in taxes and we all get the right to drive on them.
But some vehicles must pay extra. There are weigh stations on our highways to make sure that those drivers who cause extra damage to the roads pay their fair share to help keep the roads in pristine condition. Since they weigh more, they must pay extra fees.
A user who is constantly maxing his connection is doing much the same thing. There is only finite bandwidth available to everyone and one guy in his parents' basement can slow traffic for everyone else. This forces the ISPs to need to replace their cables more often due to the increase in average use. Shouldn't these users be forced to pay more for their extra usage or at least be throttled to the point they aren't causing physical damage to the entire system?
Cry about "unlimited bandwidth plans" and the like all you want. It's completely irrelevant to the topic at hand. The issue is whether people whose usage habits affect others should have their activities curtailed to create a more balanced environment for everyone.
Net neutrality is a clever way of rephrasing "bandwidth abuse".
Since when is the Internet paid for communally?
Personally, I pay for a certain amount of bandwidth. In the event that what I pay doesn't cover the cost, I expect the provider to either raise the price charged or lower the amount of bandwidth provided.
But in the latter case, the provider should make this known, rather than throttling me down but still promising me the moon.
or help files for that matter. But I don't think this is really the problem. It's how often does the user feel compelled to consult the documentation or help files in their normal daily work that matters.
I'm guessing you're referring to the printed documentation only.
Apple's online knowledgebase is unsurpassed, since it covers both hardware and software, and since there are so few permutations of both that it's possible to actually have comprehensive documentation.
And the built-in, offline help system is pretty darned good for basic purposes. For other purposes, it searches the above mentioned online knowledgebase, so...yeah.
The title of this comment should be "How do these mice prevent finger movement from causing mouse movement", but due to the limits/. places on comment titles....
OK, so let us say I have the Mac Mouse, and I swipe my fingers over the surface to do a horizontal scroll of a document. * How do I prevent my finger motion from moving the mouse itself, and thus the pointer of the mouse? * Does the mouse have such a high coefficient of static friction that the CoF between my fingers and the shell * the force my fingers apply is too small to break the mouse loose?
For scrolling, it works the same way as any mouse with a physical scroll wheel. You steady the mouse with your thumb on one side, and your pinkie, ring, and (possibly) middle fingers on the other, and stroke with your index finger. You don't end up knocking your mouse around when you poke at the scroll wheel, do you?
** Will I have to completely change my grip on the mouse to transition from mousing to swiping?
Well, the multi-finger back/forward gestures are a bit trickier, since your index and middle fingers moving together aren't as dextrous as your index finger alone. The "back" gesture is pretty simple--you lift your pinkie and ring fingers off, but leave your thumb to counter the force of the swipe--but the opposite "forward" gesture is darned near impossible for me. Luckily, you don't navigate forward as often as you go back, but still.
The video on the Apple site helps.
Having played with one for a brief period: - Normal tracking and clicking is no different from any other mouse - Both X and Y scrolling is very natural and intuitive. - The optional "scroll with momentum" is annoying and distracting to me, but might be familiar to iPhone users. - Right clicking requires lifting your left finger. Easy enough to get used to, but not natural. - Back and Forward gestures are cool, but would take some serious effort to get used to. - The mouse is very low and flat.
I read that as him saying that the Direct2D sub-pixel rendering is more accurate (more aesthetic?) than the current GDI implementation.
The question is, why is this being done as part of IE instead of GDI/WPF? (Or is it just that IE is finally being updated to take full advantage of WPF? And if so, why not just say so?)
I think pretty much everyone would rather have a 2.5 mbit network that mostly works than a 14 mbit network that's mostly vaporware.
But I agree that all of the "nG" nonsense is so much marketing bull, and getting worse. It used to be simple enough - 0G was non-cellular radiotelephone. 1G was analog. 2G was digital voice. 3G was digital data. Anything beyond that is just fluff, especially the "fractional-G" technologies.
In his defense, he probably thought he was simply tattle-telling on a naughty student who would learn a valuable lesson about internet anonymity and would have to sit through a week's detention or something of the like.
From the sound of things, the guy was crapflooding the site. If you're responsible for moderating a forum, and you're being crapflooded from the local.edu, then why not call the admin up and complain? Probably just some kid with too much time on his hands.
And there is nothing to suggest that he particularly cared that the word was. He was an admin, he was being crapflooded, he complained. I consider that a much better solution than, say, blocking an IP address (which might well be shared.)
He was in no way responsible for the action that was ultimately taken.
If they want to look at an awful non-native resolution on their LCD, why don't you shed your single tear about the waste of technology and let them go about their business?
Where does it say that the submitter was whining about the "waste of technology" or forbidding his users from using non-native resolutions? Where does it say that the users are happy with the non-native-resolution "solution?"
He's just trying to find an optimal solution, instead of a half-assed one. Which is exactly what a good IT guy should do
Hello Apple? I have a problem with my iPhone. Every time it shows an advertisement, the screen gets smashed. Can you help?
Yes. You signed up for the ad-supported $50 iPhone, instead of the carrier-subsidized $200 iPhone. Simply return it to your AT&T store, pay the $450 ad-supported-phone termination fee.
You will then be given the option to pay $200 for the AT&T-subsidized iPhone which will not display ads. Monthly charges will apply.
- You search through your e-mail messages for a link you need (for whatever reason) that some friend of yours sent you. - You find the message. - The link in the message is actually using a shortened URL. - The company that made the redirection is out of business. - You are screwed.
Why would anyone send an email with a shortened URL? Tweets, sure, text messages, IMs, okay, but email?
The problem is the Atom supports a similar instruction set to the standard processors.
Dropping support in this case means they are adding explicit code designed solely to prevent use on a processor the OS would otherwise work with.
And you know this how? There is zero evidence to support this. The much more likely scenario is that something simply broke compatibility with the Atom chipset, and Apple never bothered to test it and doesn't care that it's broken.
There is a difference between leaving in support and explicitly disabling "support". I put support in quotes because there was never anything extra done to support atom, it just acts like a normal processor. This si like websites which look at your browsers user agent and deny you access because you are running the wrong browser, when the page would run in the blocked browser anyway.
They are not "explicitly disabling 'support'" and they were never "leaving in support." As you said, they never did anything to support Atom, and now they've coincidentally broken it. Just like when a website starts using a JavaScript function that breaks in Opera/Safari/Chrome because it was never tested on that browser.
Great. Now how about some train stations to go with those airports? Boston South Station, New York Penn Station, Philadelphia 30th Street Station, and Washington Union Station would be a good start. Add Chicago Union Station and Los Angeles Union Station for those outside the Northeast Corridor.
Do train stations make you show up two hours early to get a front-row seat at the security theater, and then have you wait around for six hours because your train was delayed?
20% less fuel for the vehicles following the main vehicle..
(they forget to mention the *EXTRA* fuel expense for the leading vehicle that is basically towing the others..)
Basically, no one will ever want to be in front (look at cycle races.. it only works if people take turns at being the 1st in line..)
--Ivan
Presumably, the efficiency comes from the lack of stop-and-go (and other variations in speed) not from "drafting" behind the lead car.
Drafting requires extreme proximity between vehicles...we're talking like 6ft/2m or so for vehicles of typical size. At even moderate highway speeds (60mph/100kph) that leaves about a twentieth of a second between vehicles, which is probably too much for even a computer to manage effectively, given the limits of the mechanical systems involved. And at lower speeds, the advantage of drafting is negligible.
So Toyota says it's floor mat. But here's something I don't understand after reading TFA... all people who had that problem (and lived to tell the tale) insist that they were braking hard as the car was accelerating. If it were really just gas pedal stuck in a floor mat, then surely applying brake would force the car to decelerate regardless?
Funny thing about the brake. It's operated in the same way as the accelerator, and located in a place where most people don't normally look while they're operating it.
This was famously the case with Audis in the early '90s. Audi, designing for the heel-to-toe autobahn driver, put the brake and accelerator pedals closer to each other than on most US-market cars. Cue a number of reports in the US from drivers screaming, "I was mashing the pedal as hard as I could, and the car just wouldn't stop! In fact, it kept going faster and faster!"
No defect was ever found (though that didn't stop the media from demonstrating it) and the problem was only reported in the US, although the same cars were sold worldwide.
You're a damn liar. I'm holding the Leopard box that I walked into an Apple Store and paid full retail price for. Looking at the label, it says "MAC OS X V10.5 RETAIL". The DVD inside says "Mac OS X Leopard Install DVD". WTF part of that sounds like "upgrade" to you?
The EULA part. That's the only part that matters. Words like "Upgrade" or "Full install" or "OEM" have no legal meaning.
Every source I can find says that "data" can be either singular or plural.
If you have an authoritative source* that claims it can only be plural, please cite it. Otherwise, as your supervisor, I'm going to demote you to a lower rank within the grammar police.
(*An authoritative english language source. We're not speaking Latin, here)
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Your whole argument depends on the premise that government regulation is always detrimental.
This is Slashdot. That government is always totally and irredeemably evil is an axiom, not a premise.
The highways of our great country are paid for communally. We all pay a little in taxes and we all get the right to drive on them.
But some vehicles must pay extra. There are weigh stations on our highways to make sure that those drivers who cause extra damage to the roads pay their fair share to help keep the roads in pristine condition. Since they weigh more, they must pay extra fees.
A user who is constantly maxing his connection is doing much the same thing. There is only finite bandwidth available to everyone and one guy in his parents' basement can slow traffic for everyone else. This forces the ISPs to need to replace their cables more often due to the increase in average use. Shouldn't these users be forced to pay more for their extra usage or at least be throttled to the point they aren't causing physical damage to the entire system?
Cry about "unlimited bandwidth plans" and the like all you want. It's completely irrelevant to the topic at hand. The issue is whether people whose usage habits affect others should have their activities curtailed to create a more balanced environment for everyone.
Net neutrality is a clever way of rephrasing "bandwidth abuse".
Since when is the Internet paid for communally?
Personally, I pay for a certain amount of bandwidth. In the event that what I pay doesn't cover the cost, I expect the provider to either raise the price charged or lower the amount of bandwidth provided.
But in the latter case, the provider should make this known, rather than throttling me down but still promising me the moon.
or help files for that matter. But I don't think this is really the problem. It's how often does the user feel compelled to consult the documentation or help files in their normal daily work that matters.
I'm guessing you're referring to the printed documentation only.
Apple's online knowledgebase is unsurpassed, since it covers both hardware and software, and since there are so few permutations of both that it's possible to actually have comprehensive documentation.
And the built-in, offline help system is pretty darned good for basic purposes. For other purposes, it searches the above mentioned online knowledgebase, so...yeah.
"....with predominantly American employees and stockholders.."
Seriously, I would say that 70-80% of the employees I have seen at various tech companies...at least on the west coast are foreign nationals.
And you know this how? Just because someone has brown skin and speaks with an accent does not necessarily make them a "foreign national." Geez.
The title of this comment should be "How do these mice prevent finger movement from causing mouse movement", but due to the limits /. places on comment titles....
OK, so let us say I have the Mac Mouse, and I swipe my fingers over the surface to do a horizontal scroll of a document.
* How do I prevent my finger motion from moving the mouse itself, and thus the pointer of the mouse?
* Does the mouse have such a high coefficient of static friction that the CoF between my fingers and the shell * the force my fingers apply is too small to break the mouse loose?
For scrolling, it works the same way as any mouse with a physical scroll wheel. You steady the mouse with your thumb on one side, and your pinkie, ring, and (possibly) middle fingers on the other, and stroke with your index finger. You don't end up knocking your mouse around when you poke at the scroll wheel, do you?
** Will I have to completely change my grip on the mouse to transition from mousing to swiping?
Well, the multi-finger back/forward gestures are a bit trickier, since your index and middle fingers moving together aren't as dextrous as your index finger alone. The "back" gesture is pretty simple--you lift your pinkie and ring fingers off, but leave your thumb to counter the force of the swipe--but the opposite "forward" gesture is darned near impossible for me. Luckily, you don't navigate forward as often as you go back, but still.
The video on the Apple site helps.
Having played with one for a brief period:
- Normal tracking and clicking is no different from any other mouse
- Both X and Y scrolling is very natural and intuitive.
- The optional "scroll with momentum" is annoying and distracting to me, but might be familiar to iPhone users.
- Right clicking requires lifting your left finger. Easy enough to get used to, but not natural.
- Back and Forward gestures are cool, but would take some serious effort to get used to.
- The mouse is very low and flat.
I read that as him saying that the Direct2D sub-pixel rendering is more accurate (more aesthetic?) than the current GDI implementation.
The question is, why is this being done as part of IE instead of GDI/WPF? (Or is it just that IE is finally being updated to take full advantage of WPF? And if so, why not just say so?)
I think pretty much everyone would rather have a 2.5 mbit network that mostly works than a 14 mbit network that's mostly vaporware.
But I agree that all of the "nG" nonsense is so much marketing bull, and getting worse. It used to be simple enough - 0G was non-cellular radiotelephone. 1G was analog. 2G was digital voice. 3G was digital data. Anything beyond that is just fluff, especially the "fractional-G" technologies.
From TFA
In his defense, he probably thought he was simply tattle-telling on a naughty student who would learn a valuable lesson about internet anonymity and would have to sit through a week's detention or something of the like.
From the sound of things, the guy was crapflooding the site. If you're responsible for moderating a forum, and you're being crapflooded from the local .edu, then why not call the admin up and complain? Probably just some kid with too much time on his hands.
And there is nothing to suggest that he particularly cared that the word was. He was an admin, he was being crapflooded, he complained. I consider that a much better solution than, say, blocking an IP address (which might well be shared.)
He was in no way responsible for the action that was ultimately taken.
Step 1. Embrace. .Net 5.0: Now with new Windows-only features!") .Net 4.0 and earlier now deprecated.")
Step 2. Extend. ("New
Step 3. Extinguish. ("Support notice:
Step 4. Profit.
Remember Internet Explorer for Unix (and Mac?) Remember what happened to that once IE was dominant?
If they want to look at an awful non-native resolution on their LCD, why don't you shed your single tear about the waste of technology and let them go about their business?
Where does it say that the submitter was whining about the "waste of technology" or forbidding his users from using non-native resolutions? Where does it say that the users are happy with the non-native-resolution "solution?"
He's just trying to find an optimal solution, instead of a half-assed one. Which is exactly what a good IT guy should do
Hello Apple? I have a problem with my iPhone. Every time it shows an advertisement, the screen gets smashed. Can you help?
Yes. You signed up for the ad-supported $50 iPhone, instead of the carrier-subsidized $200 iPhone. Simply return it to your AT&T store, pay the $450 ad-supported-phone termination fee.
You will then be given the option to pay $200 for the AT&T-subsidized iPhone which will not display ads. Monthly charges will apply.
One simple example:
- You search through your e-mail messages for a link you need (for whatever reason) that some friend of yours sent you.
- You find the message.
- The link in the message is actually using a shortened URL.
- The company that made the redirection is out of business.
- You are screwed.
Why would anyone send an email with a shortened URL? Tweets, sure, text messages, IMs, okay, but email?
The problem is the Atom supports a similar instruction set to the standard processors.
Dropping support in this case means they are adding explicit code designed solely to prevent use on a processor the OS would otherwise work with.
And you know this how? There is zero evidence to support this. The much more likely scenario is that something simply broke compatibility with the Atom chipset, and Apple never bothered to test it and doesn't care that it's broken.
There is a difference between leaving in support and explicitly disabling "support". I put support in quotes because there was never anything extra done to support atom, it just acts like a normal processor. This si like websites which look at your browsers user agent and deny you access because you are running the wrong browser, when the page would run in the blocked browser anyway.
They are not "explicitly disabling 'support'" and they were never "leaving in support." As you said, they never did anything to support Atom, and now they've coincidentally broken it. Just like when a website starts using a JavaScript function that breaks in Opera/Safari/Chrome because it was never tested on that browser.
Great. Now how about some train stations to go with those airports? Boston South Station, New York Penn Station, Philadelphia 30th Street Station, and Washington Union Station would be a good start. Add Chicago Union Station and Los Angeles Union Station for those outside the Northeast Corridor.
Do train stations make you show up two hours early to get a front-row seat at the security theater, and then have you wait around for six hours because your train was delayed?
No?
Then why do you care?
Ah ah !
20% less fuel for the vehicles following the main vehicle..
(they forget to mention the *EXTRA* fuel expense for the leading vehicle that is basically towing the others..)
Basically, no one will ever want to be in front (look at cycle races.. it only works if people take turns at being the 1st in line..)
--Ivan
Presumably, the efficiency comes from the lack of stop-and-go (and other variations in speed) not from "drafting" behind the lead car.
Drafting requires extreme proximity between vehicles...we're talking like 6ft/2m or so for vehicles of typical size. At even moderate highway speeds (60mph/100kph) that leaves about a twentieth of a second between vehicles, which is probably too much for even a computer to manage effectively, given the limits of the mechanical systems involved. And at lower speeds, the advantage of drafting is negligible.
Just put a mouse-roller on the damned keyboard instead.
When I read that, I immediately thought of a keyboard with attached hamster wheel.
I want one.
Here's the thing: Why the fuck would anybody have a GE credit card?
Because GE is a bank. That's what banks do.
What, you thought they made lightbulbs? Ha! I'll bet you also think that IBM (you know, the consulting company) makes computers!
What's the difference between Shockwave and Flash?
Or are they the same thing? If so, why two names for it?
You're welcome.
Flash is included in every Netscape download
Ahh, that clears it up!
The only intelligence they require isn't of the artificial sort at all, only a smidgen of it from the motorists using them.
Which is why they are not used. What was your point again?
So Toyota says it's floor mat. But here's something I don't understand after reading TFA... all people who had that problem (and lived to tell the tale) insist that they were braking hard as the car was accelerating. If it were really just gas pedal stuck in a floor mat, then surely applying brake would force the car to decelerate regardless?
Funny thing about the brake. It's operated in the same way as the accelerator, and located in a place where most people don't normally look while they're operating it.
This was famously the case with Audis in the early '90s. Audi, designing for the heel-to-toe autobahn driver, put the brake and accelerator pedals closer to each other than on most US-market cars. Cue a number of reports in the US from drivers screaming, "I was mashing the pedal as hard as I could, and the car just wouldn't stop! In fact, it kept going faster and faster!"
No defect was ever found (though that didn't stop the media from demonstrating it) and the problem was only reported in the US, although the same cars were sold worldwide.
You're a damn liar. I'm holding the Leopard box that I walked into an Apple Store and paid full retail price for. Looking at the label, it says "MAC OS X V10.5 RETAIL". The DVD inside says "Mac OS X Leopard Install DVD". WTF part of that sounds like "upgrade" to you?
The EULA part. That's the only part that matters. Words like "Upgrade" or "Full install" or "OEM" have no legal meaning.
Every source I can find says that "data" can be either singular or plural.
If you have an authoritative source* that claims it can only be plural, please cite it. Otherwise, as your supervisor, I'm going to demote you to a lower rank within the grammar police.
(*An authoritative english language source. We're not speaking Latin, here)
...by the time they covered Balloon Boy, they already knew he wasn't in it, and suspected a hoax! Where's the entertainment in that?
The only thing I sort of remember is Dvorak claiming he had the scoop on Apple switching to Intel....
That would be when he predicted Apple would adopt Intel Itanium, naturally. And yes, this was well after Itanium had become "Itanic."