Three Mile Island, where the complaint was that there were too many alarms going off.
Yeah, surprisingly alarms have to be neither missing nor useless (by being irrelevant, hard to understand, going off for the wrong reasons, presenting wrong scenario, not correlating causes etc etc etc).
What a strange thing to say: "observed by a team of researchers, including Canadians" Does this mean the Canadians aren't team players or they weren't researchers (were they just tourists?) This Canadian wants to know!
I think it has something to do with the initial line which says "Canadian_Daemon writes ":-)
You know, initially, going through your comment, I was like "wtf, why is this modded funny, idiot/. mods", but I kept reading and suddenly it was all clear
You can take it a lot further than that. Here's a screenie of my firefox right now. I ripped the "full screen" module (called notitlebar@vrienduinen, not my work, I just messed with its insides a little) out of a chrome lookalike pack, adjusted bars to my liking (the 2 icons between the menus and the AwesomeBar are 2 bookmarklets, ReaditLater and InstaPaper (Hi Marco, love the product!)), made the right buttons not overlap with a few spacers, nuked the Google search box without losing the function via OmniBar, then via stylish I messed with many more things than I care to remember (removed scrollbars, the throbber/favicon and close button on non-active tabs, made current tab much wider, killed a few more buttons and spacers, actually made the margin betwen the 2 top bars negative, etc).
It's most likely a usability trainwreck (I actually love to have "normal" people borrow my PC for a sec and watch them helpless for a few seconds, then I'll have mercy and give them a normal chrome window:-) ) but I'm 100% comfortable with it.
This is as close to full screen as I can go without feeling I'm missing some familiar UI function: I still have a lot of room to show the current URL (I love to see parameters, and change them:) ), the status bar, the current page title (but I can probably do better there, with some code I could compress the most frequent sites' names, like turning slashdot into "/."), pretty much everything I ever need is still there. And if I need those last 60 pixels, F11 is still there.
Cause I remember fiddling with stuff like A M P back in the late '80s. hey I still remember its NUA: 023422020010700 (power of the young brain, I was 14 and pretty much everything I read tended to stick).
Given that, outside the solar system, there's hardly anything closer than a couple parsecs except for some very faint objects, and 1 parsec is 1 parallax *second* (as in, 1/3600th of a degree), and it represents the angle formed by watching the same object from 2 observation points spaced 1AU (or 2AU?) apart, does this allow any actual 3d effect to be perceived by the brain? The left/right image separation should be insufficient (unless of course the content has been heavily software processed).
Also, please, don't release anaglyphs, there's a lot of different video hardware to enable 3d vision. Just release video with the left/right frames (side-by-side, above/below, alternating, you choose) and let each of us view it optimally on our hardware. There's plenty of software to accomplish that, even java applets and browser plugins.
Yeah telephones and PBXs are much easier to use (actually they're _not_, but we've all been trained long ago to their user interface), but this whole/. article was about how POTS sucks:)
Oh, I see; zing, er bing CORRECTLY ignores this obviously made up word and google only makes a reference to it as a joke. On us! Bad Google, stop doing the evils! Sheesh.
First of all, it appeared on Bing as well in the last few minutes, so hats off to those guys as well. Second, It's on a web forum thread now, so I don't expect search engines to CORRECTLY ignore it (emphasis yours). Third, I was actually looking for the word, and while I wasn't sure about the spelling, I did end up finding what I was looking for (thanks to Google, for the record): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh_flood_myth http://www.bibleorigins.net/NoahsFloodArkBibliography.html
Just today I gave Bing another try, since Google wasn't finding anything (admittedly on an impossibly arcane thing, the searchstring was Elepturabiturcurcurru, which should be the original Mesopotamian name for Noah's ark according to a guy on a talk show many years ago, I never found out if he was serious or a crackpot). Googling yielded 0 results (after this post it'll probably be 1, haha), even when trying to change the spelling a bit or breaking it into 2 words. So I thought, let's give Bing a chance, maybe it magically stopped sucking. The word as a whole returned 0 results as well, but once broken down in 2 ("elepturabitur curcurru") it caused a "Were you looking for: elepturabitur curcuru" clickable link to appear. Yay! Click. Wait. 0 results. Meh.
1) Vent has normalization also, you just have to Google how to do it.
Yep, I did, and it didn't work well enough for me even after fiddling with the values. I ended up having to adjust almost every single speaker, and everytime they reinstalled their pc / changed their nick I had to do it again.
Not looking at the keyboard is one thing, but not looking at the screen?? Please stop computing while driving.
My office is in a 15th century building and there's a lovely court with a big (big!) fountain right out of my window, with a bit of sky also in view.
(before you ask for my geek card back: ok, the other reason I'm not looking at the screen while googling is that I have 2 screens and I'm often looking at the other one, typically containing the context I wanted to google about:) But the 15th century building thing is also true, lucky me, previous job was in a basement (although I loved it!))
I was pondering this exact stuff just today at work, since a phone call sounded kinda crappy, barely acceptable until I needed to involve 2 more people and put it on speakerphone, it became so bad we had to give up. I dropped the phone call, switched to skype, and damn what a big difference. The crappiness of POTS is ridiculous indeed, and although I see the need for compatibility, it can't die soon enough.
By the way, if you like Ventrilo, try Mumble, which, apart from being free and open source, which can't hurt according to the/. crowd, has really awesome sound quality, and you can setup your own private instance in minutes. Plus, for the MMO crowds, it has extremely low latency, awesome echo echo echo echo cancellation and built-in auto volume normalization (helpful when That Loud Guy Without Headphones keeps pressing his PTT and everyone's in pain)
I was (and still am, to a degree) quite a rabid anti-bloat advocate. I cringe when I see 250k JPEGs used when a 25k PNG would have done better (esp. on non-photos, like comics, graphs, designs, maps) or when some idiot saves something at JPEG quality 100 when 95 would be indistinguishable to a human and yield a 60% space saving (btw, curse you Photoshop, and curse you Adobe, for Flash and your horrible PDF software (but not the PDF format!) while I'm at it). I loved the Bandwidth Conservation Society website. In 2003 I used to run some generated HTML through some old code beautifier which as a side effect auto-CSSized it yielding a decent space saving over raw, before serving it to browsers. And I'd still be doing it if I had to run a website, even if I was sure noone would notice the difference.
But I'd really have a hard time calling this new Google Instant thing a waste. It's a new gizmo which needs more bandwidth to perform a useful function. I'm not its target (I type *way* faster than their target audience, usually looking at neither the keyboard nor the screen until I press enter, and most my queries are through Firefox's search box since I just type Ctrl-K, searchtext, Enter, BAM, way too convenient (and works in Chrome as well) but I readily recognize it as useful to millions (maybe not those who just stare at their keyboard while they slowly hunt and peck, not even realizing their query / address was autocompleted 20 seconds ago, making me twitch at the sight of this daily absurdity. Never mind bookmarking the damn thing, or those newfangled RSS aggregators. Or the heresy of a keyboard binding:-) ).
Disclaimer: I'm totally a Google whore. Hey I even tried using Wave to do stuff. Once.
Dropping IE6 is a good thing. It's hideous and not just aesthetically, but also from a security and standard support/compliance standpoint. I'm not advocating alienating all Internet Explorer users altogether (even though I quite dislike it), but dropping IE6 specifically is a *good* thing to do. Yeah some companies still force it on their users, shame on them (the companies).
Ok, I guess 9 years is acceptable for a dupe, and tbh I didn't even read the article, in/.'s finest tradition, so it might be an actual new development:-)
Kinda sure there was some piece of news on the subject from around 2005-2006 too, but can't find it atm. Meh, google-fu weak at 3am, should sleep, work in under 5 hours.
Indeed. In 1997, I ran my Windows 95 box with a year of Uptime without needing to reboot it,
Sorry, I call bullshit. A known issue, fixed only in 1999, would prevent Windows 95 and 98 from going over 49.7 days of uptime (2^32 milliseconds). Much hilarity ensued back in the day since "how could anyone have noticed / run into this":-)
2G was well defined, as meaning digital. 4G is also well defined, with features like an all-IP network, 100Mb/s mobile bandwidth (1Gb/s stationary), and so on. 3G is not so well defined, but it's generally understood to mean something in the same category as UMTS.
Maybe the confusion is just a US thing?
Indeed this confusion seems to be a US thing. On the other side of the pond, probably thanks to a much more uniform standard, there is no doubt about what a 3G phone is, and noone (that I'm aware of) even considered trying to pass a non-3G phone for one.
Anyway it never ceases to amaze me how much you guys let your telcos rob you blind (not claiming it doesn't happen here - far from it - but your average bill is like 3 times ours, and the dollar is weaker atm), lie to you, tie you into years of awful contracts with hefty termination fees, pull all sorts of crap (aided by mutually incompatible standards which also make your handset useless if you want to change carrier), delay upgrades by years, remove functions like tethering or data connections from phones which are created with them, etc.
AT&T is posting record revenues in times of recession and yet skimping on needed upgrades to its insufficient network, I wonder how come there isn't an angry mob at their door.
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Yeah, surprisingly alarms have to be neither missing nor useless (by being irrelevant, hard to understand, going off for the wrong reasons, presenting wrong scenario, not correlating causes etc etc etc).
Who'd have thunk it.
I live in Rome, you insensitive clod!
I think it has something to do with the initial line which says "Canadian_Daemon writes " :-)
Yeah, probably he cringes at the confusion between "Web" and "Internet" when people report that.
It's Vinton Gray "Vint" (also, Cerf, not Einstein :-) )
You know, initially, going through your comment, I was like "wtf, why is this modded funny, idiot /. mods", but I kept reading and suddenly it was all clear
You can take it a lot further than that.
Here's a screenie of my firefox right now. I ripped the "full screen" module (called notitlebar@vrienduinen, not my work, I just messed with its insides a little) out of a chrome lookalike pack, adjusted bars to my liking (the 2 icons between the menus and the AwesomeBar are 2 bookmarklets, ReaditLater and InstaPaper (Hi Marco, love the product!)), made the right buttons not overlap with a few spacers, nuked the Google search box without losing the function via OmniBar, then via stylish I messed with many more things than I care to remember (removed scrollbars, the throbber/favicon and close button on non-active tabs, made current tab much wider, killed a few more buttons and spacers, actually made the margin betwen the 2 top bars negative, etc).
It's most likely a usability trainwreck (I actually love to have "normal" people borrow my PC for a sec and watch them helpless for a few seconds, then I'll have mercy and give them a normal chrome window :-) ) but I'm 100% comfortable with it.
This is as close to full screen as I can go without feeling I'm missing some familiar UI function: I still have a lot of room to show the current URL (I love to see parameters, and change them :) ), the status bar, the current page title (but I can probably do better there, with some code I could compress the most frequent sites' names, like turning slashdot into "/."), pretty much everything I ever need is still there. And if I need those last 60 pixels, F11 is still there.
Cause I remember fiddling with stuff like A M P back in the late '80s. hey I still remember its NUA: 023422020010700 (power of the young brain, I was 14 and pretty much everything I read tended to stick).
Please..... if you choose to quote latin to sound important, you might want to consider taking the time and attention to avoid 2 errors in 5 words.
Given that, outside the solar system, there's hardly anything closer than a couple parsecs except for some very faint objects, and 1 parsec is 1 parallax *second* (as in, 1/3600th of a degree), and it represents the angle formed by watching the same object from 2 observation points spaced 1AU (or 2AU?) apart, does this allow any actual 3d effect to be perceived by the brain? The left/right image separation should be insufficient (unless of course the content has been heavily software processed).
Also, please, don't release anaglyphs, there's a lot of different video hardware to enable 3d vision. Just release video with the left/right frames (side-by-side, above/below, alternating, you choose) and let each of us view it optimally on our hardware. There's plenty of software to accomplish that, even java applets and browser plugins.
Yeah telephones and PBXs are much easier to use (actually they're _not_, but we've all been trained long ago to their user interface), but this whole /. article was about how POTS sucks :)
To whomever just modded the parent (me) as funny: it's not funny. It's damn amazing, and awe-inspiring.
First of all, it appeared on Bing as well in the last few minutes, so hats off to those guys as well.
Second, It's on a web forum thread now, so I don't expect search engines to CORRECTLY ignore it (emphasis yours).
Third, I was actually looking for the word, and while I wasn't sure about the spelling, I did end up finding what I was looking for (thanks to Google, for the record):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh_flood_myth
http://www.bibleorigins.net/NoahsFloodArkBibliography.html
It appears as" KUR-ú KUR"
That was exactly my point.
Quoting myself. 130 seconds after posting, Google has 1 search result for that word. Christ. Guys, you're truly awesome.
Noone's that crazy.
Just today I gave Bing another try, since Google wasn't finding anything (admittedly on an impossibly arcane thing, the searchstring was Elepturabiturcurcurru, which should be the original Mesopotamian name for Noah's ark according to a guy on a talk show many years ago, I never found out if he was serious or a crackpot). Googling yielded 0 results (after this post it'll probably be 1, haha), even when trying to change the spelling a bit or breaking it into 2 words. So I thought, let's give Bing a chance, maybe it magically stopped sucking. The word as a whole returned 0 results as well, but once broken down in 2 ("elepturabitur curcurru") it caused a "Were you looking for: elepturabitur curcuru" clickable link to appear.
Yay! Click. Wait. 0 results. Meh.
Yep, I did, and it didn't work well enough for me even after fiddling with the values. I ended up having to adjust almost every single speaker, and everytime they reinstalled their pc / changed their nick I had to do it again.
eek, pugs :)
My office is in a 15th century building and there's a lovely court with a big (big!) fountain right out of my window, with a bit of sky also in view.
(before you ask for my geek card back: ok, the other reason I'm not looking at the screen while googling is that I have 2 screens and I'm often looking at the other one, typically containing the context I wanted to google about :) But the 15th century building thing is also true, lucky me, previous job was in a basement (although I loved it!))
I was pondering this exact stuff just today at work, since a phone call sounded kinda crappy, barely acceptable until I needed to involve 2 more people and put it on speakerphone, it became so bad we had to give up. I dropped the phone call, switched to skype, and damn what a big difference. The crappiness of POTS is ridiculous indeed, and although I see the need for compatibility, it can't die soon enough.
By the way, if you like Ventrilo, try Mumble, which, apart from being free and open source, which can't hurt according to the /. crowd, has really awesome sound quality, and you can setup your own private instance in minutes. Plus, for the MMO crowds, it has extremely low latency, awesome echo echo echo echo cancellation and built-in auto volume normalization (helpful when That Loud Guy Without Headphones keeps pressing his PTT and everyone's in pain)
I was (and still am, to a degree) quite a rabid anti-bloat advocate. I cringe when I see 250k JPEGs used when a 25k PNG would have done better (esp. on non-photos, like comics, graphs, designs, maps) or when some idiot saves something at JPEG quality 100 when 95 would be indistinguishable to a human and yield a 60% space saving (btw, curse you Photoshop, and curse you Adobe, for Flash and your horrible PDF software (but not the PDF format!) while I'm at it).
I loved the Bandwidth Conservation Society website.
In 2003 I used to run some generated HTML through some old code beautifier which as a side effect auto-CSSized it yielding a decent space saving over raw, before serving it to browsers. And I'd still be doing it if I had to run a website, even if I was sure noone would notice the difference.
But I'd really have a hard time calling this new Google Instant thing a waste. It's a new gizmo which needs more bandwidth to perform a useful function. I'm not its target (I type *way* faster than their target audience, usually looking at neither the keyboard nor the screen until I press enter, and most my queries are through Firefox's search box since I just type Ctrl-K, searchtext, Enter, BAM, way too convenient (and works in Chrome as well) but I readily recognize it as useful to millions (maybe not those who just stare at their keyboard while they slowly hunt and peck, not even realizing their query / address was autocompleted 20 seconds ago, making me twitch at the sight of this daily absurdity. Never mind bookmarking the damn thing, or those newfangled RSS aggregators. Or the heresy of a keyboard binding :-) ).
Disclaimer: I'm totally a Google whore. Hey I even tried using Wave to do stuff. Once.
Dropping IE6 is a good thing. It's hideous and not just aesthetically, but also from a security and standard support/compliance standpoint. I'm not advocating alienating all Internet Explorer users altogether (even though I quite dislike it), but dropping IE6 specifically is a *good* thing to do. Yeah some companies still force it on their users, shame on them (the companies).
Ok, I guess 9 years is acceptable for a dupe, and tbh I didn't even read the article, in /.'s finest tradition, so it might be an actual new development :-)
Kinda sure there was some piece of news on the subject from around 2005-2006 too, but can't find it atm. Meh, google-fu weak at 3am, should sleep, work in under 5 hours.
A Sausage also works :-)
Sorry, I call bullshit. A known issue, fixed only in 1999, would prevent Windows 95 and 98 from going over 49.7 days of uptime (2^32 milliseconds). Much hilarity ensued back in the day since "how could anyone have noticed / run into this" :-)
Indeed this confusion seems to be a US thing. On the other side of the pond, probably thanks to a much more uniform standard, there is no doubt about what a 3G phone is, and noone (that I'm aware of) even considered trying to pass a non-3G phone for one.
Anyway it never ceases to amaze me how much you guys let your telcos rob you blind (not claiming it doesn't happen here - far from it - but your average bill is like 3 times ours, and the dollar is weaker atm), lie to you, tie you into years of awful contracts with hefty termination fees, pull all sorts of crap (aided by mutually incompatible standards which also make your handset useless if you want to change carrier), delay upgrades by years, remove functions like tethering or data connections from phones which are created with them, etc.
AT&T is posting record revenues in times of recession and yet skimping on needed upgrades to its insufficient network, I wonder how come there isn't an angry mob at their door.