... but I think my username is so appropriate for this story that I must post something.
I would prefer sort of a "multiple chamber" design rather than the current "try to use water--sometimes with vacuum assistance--to squeeze all of the contents through a narrow, winding pipe". Why not a physical mechanism to close off the sewer AND allow a more streamlined evacuation of the bowl?
I was thinking that they could lock down the computers so you have to swipe your library card or type in your library card id in order to access the public internet (library catalog is OK for anonymous access).
Since the sex offender registry is public (I believe - at least it is in my state), when somebody signs up for a library card the software automatically checks the registry and locks this user from the accessing the public internet from library computers. Obviously there would be a human step involved to confirm this and a policy to dispute it.
I like this solution a lot better than overly-broad filtering.
MS should use some of their other UI ideas to augment this:
The "STOP" button spins while loading the page. Then, when the page is loaded, the button is disabled for five seconds and a popup appears that says "Your page has loaded. The refresh button will be available in five seconds. Click here to refresh now" and there will be a button to click for refresh and a progress bar. This window automatically closes and the user is returned to the browser after five seconds. There could also be a "Are you sure you want to refresh?" dialog box where the "Yes" and "Cancel" buttons randomly change position each time the dialog box appears.
Most of the women I know have many more intesrests than the four you listed: work/career, political issues, entertaining (cooking, mixing drinks, playing games, etc), music, and a whole bunch of other things that many people find interesting.
Here's a quick and entirely tongue-in-cheek female to male translation of your four key interests:
Clothes --- Tech toys, power tools, video games, etc. Clothes make a woman feel good, look nice, express herself, and shopping for them is usually a team sport.
TV series --- Do I even need to translate this one? Star Trek, B5, Battlestar Galactica, Anime. Men love TV and movies too.
Spreading rumours --- Hmm... like what features the new Mac will have?
There is such a thing as an unconscious bias (there was just a story about it on PBS's Scientific American Frontiers last week). We may THINK we're not racist or sexist or whatever, but we have these deeply ingrained beliefs (thanks to our parents, social norms, advertising, music, etc) that come out unconsciously.
It's hard to determine who exerts the social pressure on women and men. (Or, more accurately, young girls and boys.) When things are so entrenched in society and media and culture it's impossible to point to one area specifically. The recent controversy over the portrayal of women in hip hop music is one example that comes to mind.
Software companies should provide the EULAs on CD or DVD so people can just pop them in and listen to them while accomplishing other things (like actually installing the software).
They could get James Earl Jones, William Shatner, and other celebrities with notable voices to read them. Maybe the next step would be having famous authors write them (William Gibson, Stephen King...).
It's not just time. (Oh, and two hours is A LOT when you work full time and have kids.) Think of the other costs: money (for the law-cutting equipment and the maintenance and the gasoline/electricity), the environment (gas-powered lawnmowers are terrible), and the possiblity of injury. Also, it's not just homeowners that mow lawn. There's lawn on the side of every highway, in every city park, etc. It costs taxpayers money to maintain that grass.
Curing disease is very important, but it's not the only way to make life better.
Good point, but... Most businesses actually do make their own image of Windows and deploy it throughout the company (at least this has been the case for all the large companies I've been involved with). Usually it's easier to just reimage the hard drive than to install all the company's software on the default windows install (besides that, the image is updated with all the latest service packs and the version that came with the machine may not be).
So, Linux and Windows are dead even in this area.
I think the real problem is that hardware companies (Dell, Gateway, even IBM) don't have the guts to stand up to Microsoft and offer a real alternative.
What kind of person would advise someone not to make questions because he/she will be intepreted as stupid?
Man, what a stupid question. stupid stupid stupid. I cannot believe somebody would ask that.
OK, I was kidding... but seriously, the article reads like a list of things not to do, so this is saying that you shouldn't be afraid of being thought stupid for asking a question. (In the quoted text a bit of a humorous clue about the true nature of the statement: "You don't think that of them when they ask a question, but they will about you.")
I thought the chainsaw in the operating room was an obvious homage to the Evil Dead movies. I've never heard of a medical chainsaw... but I'm not a doctor.
I would need both hands to count the number of times I have seen a car going the wrong way on a one-way street.
I have also seen cars driving or passing on the shoulder/sidewalk, running red lights, driving backwards, trying to drive BETWEEN two cars (on a two-lane), signaling but not turning, etc... Left turners are the worst. They don't seem to think that they have to look to the left as long as the oncoming lane is clear.
In summary, ALWAYS look both ways and keep looking as you cross.
Actually, it's nothing like the broken window fallacy. Nothing is being destroyed or removed from the economy. The restaurant would have to pay for disposal whether it goes to the recycling plant or not.
Notice that I said it creates new jobs. It's like when the internet became popular. Suddenly people need ISPs, modems, computers, training, web browsers, ftp clients, second phone lines, cable modems, DSL, etc, etc... Some people changed jobs, some new jobs were created, the economy grew. (Let's not think about that whole bubble-bursting incident...)
This is what I am referring to. New technologies bring new jobs and change the scope of old jobs.
Not to be overly critical, but there can never be an energy gain. Picking up the old oil, processing it, and redistributing it as fuel probably uses more energy than simply disposing of the used vegetable oil.
There are definitely a lot of good advantages. Instead of one person or company employed to dispose of the oil, there are now several entities involved in transporting, processing, and redistributing the oil. This creates jobs that did not exist five years ago. Also, it's always good to reuse/recycle something as it means that less resources need to be removed from the earth, causing less disruption in the already damaged environment.
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... but I think my username is so appropriate for this story that I must post something.
I would prefer sort of a "multiple chamber" design rather than the current "try to use water--sometimes with vacuum assistance--to squeeze all of the contents through a narrow, winding pipe". Why not a physical mechanism to close off the sewer AND allow a more streamlined evacuation of the bowl?
That is all.
I keep getting email saying "Me get cash money, I laser you eyeball!"
(Stolen from Conan O'Brien's "actual items".)
I was thinking that they could lock down the computers so you have to swipe your library card or type in your library card id in order to access the public internet (library catalog is OK for anonymous access).
Since the sex offender registry is public (I believe - at least it is in my state), when somebody signs up for a library card the software automatically checks the registry and locks this user from the accessing the public internet from library computers. Obviously there would be a human step involved to confirm this and a policy to dispute it.
I like this solution a lot better than overly-broad filtering.
You're right. This is very stupid.
MS should use some of their other UI ideas to augment this:
The "STOP" button spins while loading the page. Then, when the page is loaded, the button is disabled for five seconds and a popup appears that says "Your page has loaded. The refresh button will be available in five seconds. Click here to refresh now" and there will be a button to click for refresh and a progress bar. This window automatically closes and the user is returned to the browser after five seconds. There could also be a "Are you sure you want to refresh?" dialog box where the "Yes" and "Cancel" buttons randomly change position each time the dialog box appears.
Excellent! They should be receiving the first episodes of Blossom soon. Whoa!
Absolutely. Read up on the 60s and 70s ... especially rock stars.
I am an excellent proofreader. Pay me $10K per month to proof all of your spreadsheets. My job will pay for itself!
I've known that for a long time.
Most of the women I know have many more intesrests than the four you listed: work/career, political issues, entertaining (cooking, mixing drinks, playing games, etc), music, and a whole bunch of other things that many people find interesting.
Here's a quick and entirely tongue-in-cheek female to male translation of your four key interests:
Clothes --- Tech toys, power tools, video games, etc. Clothes make a woman feel good, look nice, express herself, and shopping for them is usually a team sport.
TV series --- Do I even need to translate this one? Star Trek, B5, Battlestar Galactica, Anime. Men love TV and movies too.
Spreading rumours --- Hmm... like what features the new Mac will have?
Horoscopes --- porn.
Ahh... here it is.
It's hard to determine who exerts the social pressure on women and men. (Or, more accurately, young girls and boys.) When things are so entrenched in society and media and culture it's impossible to point to one area specifically. The recent controversy over the portrayal of women in hip hop music is one example that comes to mind.
Software companies should provide the EULAs on CD or DVD so people can just pop them in and listen to them while accomplishing other things (like actually installing the software).
They could get James Earl Jones, William Shatner, and other celebrities with notable voices to read them. Maybe the next step would be having famous authors write them (William Gibson, Stephen King...).
Perhaps the movie will lead to the continuation of the TV series.
It's not just time. (Oh, and two hours is A LOT when you work full time and have kids.) Think of the other costs: money (for the law-cutting equipment and the maintenance and the gasoline/electricity), the environment (gas-powered lawnmowers are terrible), and the possiblity of injury. Also, it's not just homeowners that mow lawn. There's lawn on the side of every highway, in every city park, etc. It costs taxpayers money to maintain that grass.
Curing disease is very important, but it's not the only way to make life better.
Good point, but... Most businesses actually do make their own image of Windows and deploy it throughout the company (at least this has been the case for all the large companies I've been involved with). Usually it's easier to just reimage the hard drive than to install all the company's software on the default windows install (besides that, the image is updated with all the latest service packs and the version that came with the machine may not be).
So, Linux and Windows are dead even in this area.
I think the real problem is that hardware companies (Dell, Gateway, even IBM) don't have the guts to stand up to Microsoft and offer a real alternative.
Man, what a stupid question. stupid stupid stupid. I cannot believe somebody would ask that.
OK, I was kidding... but seriously, the article reads like a list of things not to do, so this is saying that you shouldn't be afraid of being thought stupid for asking a question. (In the quoted text a bit of a humorous clue about the true nature of the statement: "You don't think that of them when they ask a question, but they will about you.")
Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan... -gress.
An umbrella can quickly be turned inside-out or get loose and hit you in the face...
I thought the chainsaw in the operating room was an obvious homage to the Evil Dead movies. I've never heard of a medical chainsaw... but I'm not a doctor.
I hate telling people paths or urls and they don't understand that there is a "slash" and a "backslash". It kinda goes like this:
...' " ... "
Me: "type 'ls slash home, slash
Them: "Which one?"
Me: "slash home slash
Them: "Which slash?"
Me: "Slash"
Them: "Which one?"
Me: "Slash"
Them: "Back-slash?"
Me: "Slash!"
Oh I dunno. You wouldn't have to get out of bed to pee at night.
Who sleeps two feet from a toilet?! Maybe you were thinking of peeing out the window...
I would need both hands to count the number of times I have seen a car going the wrong way on a one-way street.
I have also seen cars driving or passing on the shoulder/sidewalk, running red lights, driving backwards, trying to drive BETWEEN two cars (on a two-lane), signaling but not turning, etc... Left turners are the worst. They don't seem to think that they have to look to the left as long as the oncoming lane is clear.
In summary, ALWAYS look both ways and keep looking as you cross.
but, I recommend Mario Cart Double Dash. Fun for the whole family. There is also Mario Party.
My wife only likes Mario games...
Notice that I said it creates new jobs. It's like when the internet became popular. Suddenly people need ISPs, modems, computers, training, web browsers, ftp clients, second phone lines, cable modems, DSL, etc, etc... Some people changed jobs, some new jobs were created, the economy grew. (Let's not think about that whole bubble-bursting incident...)
This is what I am referring to. New technologies bring new jobs and change the scope of old jobs.
Not to be overly critical, but there can never be an energy gain. Picking up the old oil, processing it, and redistributing it as fuel probably uses more energy than simply disposing of the used vegetable oil.
There are definitely a lot of good advantages. Instead of one person or company employed to dispose of the oil, there are now several entities involved in transporting, processing, and redistributing the oil. This creates jobs that did not exist five years ago. Also, it's always good to reuse/recycle something as it means that less resources need to be removed from the earth, causing less disruption in the already damaged environment.
Feature or extreme annoyance? Take your pick.