I don't agree with you. While reading code your attention (and eye-focus) is likely to jump from one place to the other. Any extra cognitive effort that is required to visually identify the spot in the code you are looking for will make it more cumbersome to understand that code. TFA also seems to make that argument, as it observes that with a proportional font, more text fits in an `eye fixation' (without making the font smaller, and therefore harder to read), so that means less visual search.
That said, I have to admit I use fixed-width fonts for programming:-)
The problem with the world is that people seem to care more about cute little animals than they do about living, breathing, thinking human beings.
I don't think that many people really prioritize (cute little) animals over human beings. The people you refer to probably want to counterbalance the lack of respect for animal life in our society (i agree that some people are overly zealous in that).
Animal Testing is conducting experiments on animals that, while they may, and probably will, kill the animal, will save human lives, in part due to the fact that you don't have to do the same test on a human being.
I'm not so sure that animal testing invariably saves human lives. Have there been any studies on that?
animal rights boils down to a simple statement. Is a (non-human) animals life worth less than a humans. If you say yes, then animal testing is a no brainer.
No, no, no! I'm inclined to say animal life is worth less than human life. But I don't agree with animal tests at all! The point is that there should be a proper balance between the suffering imposed on animals and the benefit for humans. I find it utterly cruel to sacrifice the (quality of) life of animals just because there might be a slight chance that in some distant future it helps us find a cure for some human disease. There should be strict criteria in terms of the likelihood that animal tests bring concrete benefits in the form of adequate medication or crucial knowledge.
apart from the `semantics' I do think your analogy about guilty and innocent men is hampered. I see how an innocent man suffering equates to a human dying, but not how ten guilty men equate to animals dying in the name of science. I would say the animals are at least as innocent as the human.
That's why I say: people, stick with car/horse/pizza analogies. It's safer.
... I want to point out that the important message people should take away from this is simply that your searches are not private. Your searches leave the premises of your private property. They go to a semi-public resting place where--under the Patriot Act--the government has the ability to access them with little commotion.
I'm not sure what kind of place it is my searches go to, but I it is open to discussion what kind of place it *should* be. I would like it to be the same kind of place as the one where my personal information goes when I consult a doctor. Definitely not a semi-public place. (what is a semi-public place actually?)
Personalized ads, fair enough. But i can understand perfectly well that people don't feel comfortable about this. It's so damn uncanny. For me it's more than enough that google search is my 'window to the internet'. I don't need them to store my documents, my mail, my chat, and now my dns lookups.
Google reminds me of a canyon. Towering walls closing in.
Slashdot Mirror
Obvious. A key stored on paper is more likely to perish, and therefore less likely to fall in the hands of evildoers.
that all those bucks spent on an MS license only entitle you to a bug-ridden, unsafe operating system.
Wouldn't it be best to end support for obsoleted browsers?
How well do your current pages support Lynx? Does that answer the question?
No, it doesn't answer the question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is-ought_problem
you can't actually transmit information this way. Just energy.
You've just described Slashdot in a nutshell.
Of course! No brain-computer interface as versatile as the human body.
it's all for our own safety!
catchy, but incorrect. It should be: Microsoft paying people with other operating systems to use their search engine.
You might be surprised! It took this average slashdotter 4.00 minutes to type the fucking text!
I don't agree with you. While reading code your attention (and eye-focus) is likely to jump from one place to the other. Any extra cognitive effort that is required to visually identify the spot in the code you are looking for will make it more cumbersome to understand that code. TFA also seems to make that argument, as it observes that with a proportional font, more text fits in an `eye fixation' (without making the font smaller, and therefore harder to read), so that means less visual search.
That said, I have to admit I use fixed-width fonts for programming :-)
my linux runs on a mac, you insensitive clod!
since /. wouldn't let me, you will have to imagine here the inevitable caps lock key joke...
It looks like this is the Year of the Desktop on Linux :-)
a cron job?
The problem with the world is that people seem to care more about cute little animals than they do about living, breathing, thinking human beings.
I don't think that many people really prioritize (cute little) animals over human beings. The people you refer to probably want to counterbalance the lack of respect for animal life in our society (i agree that some people are overly zealous in that).
Animal Testing is conducting experiments on animals that, while they may, and probably will, kill the animal, will save human lives, in part due to the fact that you don't have to do the same test on a human being.
I'm not so sure that animal testing invariably saves human lives. Have there been any studies on that?
animal rights boils down to a simple statement. Is a (non-human) animals life worth less than a humans. If you say yes, then animal testing is a no brainer.
No, no, no! I'm inclined to say animal life is worth less than human life. But I don't agree with animal tests at all! The point is that there should be a proper balance between the suffering imposed on animals and the benefit for humans. I find it utterly cruel to sacrifice the (quality of) life of animals just because there might be a slight chance that in some distant future it helps us find a cure for some human disease. There should be strict criteria in terms of the likelihood that animal tests bring concrete benefits in the form of adequate medication or crucial knowledge.
apart from the `semantics' I do think your analogy about guilty and innocent men is hampered. I see how an innocent man suffering equates to a human dying, but not how ten guilty men equate to animals dying in the name of science. I would say the animals are at least as innocent as the human.
That's why I say: people, stick with car/horse/pizza analogies. It's safer.
...even though it is really our money that we used to purchase items from there...
The money that you spent is *really* your money!? And what about the money that you earn? Give me a break!
I just tried TB3 and liked it a lot. especially the search facility. It requires the messages to be indexed, it takes some time before that's done.
Just in time for Christmas,...
Deep fried in infrared, duh! this is just the neighbor's christmas tree!
... I want to point out that the important message people should take away from this is simply that your searches are not private. Your searches leave the premises of your private property. They go to a semi-public resting place where--under the Patriot Act--the government has the ability to access them with little commotion.
I'm not sure what kind of place it is my searches go to, but I it is open to discussion what kind of place it *should* be. I would like it to be the same kind of place as the one where my personal information goes when I consult a doctor. Definitely not a semi-public place. (what is a semi-public place actually?)
It is wrong to rob from a bank. But is it wrong to watch somebody rob a bank?
Why don't people stick with car/horse/pizza analogies? The proper analogy should be:
It is wrong to rob from a bank. But is it wrong to spend the money somebody else robbed from a bank?
I would say yes.
Personalized ads, fair enough. But i can understand perfectly well that people don't feel comfortable about this. It's so damn uncanny. For me it's more than enough that google search is my 'window to the internet'. I don't need them to store my documents, my mail, my chat, and now my dns lookups.
Google reminds me of a canyon. Towering walls closing in.
Yes! A few years ago! On a computer used to administer vegetable-sales in La Boquería, the biggest food-market in Barcelona downtown.
In Japan I recently saw a subway-advertisement of Sharp netbooks showing a netbook with an ubuntu desktop, ubuntu logo, fully undisguised!
But I admit that doesn't make 1% of the computers I have seen in the wild...
In return, the US government should at least provide EU citizens with two-weekly overviews of their recent bank transactions. FREE OF CHARGE!
So I guess in the near future we will be seeing things like:
>>> 1 + 1
2 (p < .001)