Chrome has an experimental option to move the tab bar to the side of the browser. They've been working on it for quite some time. Last time I tried it, early on, it was pretty buggy, indicating that this is really not a trivial change.
Anyhow, who would you not offer an option for any UI behavior people are divided on? Sure, you'd want to hide most of them away in an "advanced" dialog somewhere to avoid clutter, but you can do that.
A valid reason would be to save the effort implementing that option.
The barrier to entry is so high that company A doesn't need to rely upon customer or author/publisher loyalty, and they don't need to rely upon subsidizing their business model to offer the best deal: they now offer the only deal.
They still have to compete against paper books and piracy.
If you memorize up to the first zero in pi, you can navigate the circumference of the universe in a perfect circle and when you get to the end of the circle (based on the digits of pi you memorized) you'll be off by less than the width of a human hair.
To put numbers on that.
pi ~= 3.14159265358979323846264338327950
The first zero in pi appears 33 digits in. Memorising digits up to this first zero gives an error of less than 10^(-32). The radius of the known universe is 4.6 * 10^10, light years, and since a light year is close to 10^16m, the radius r is about 4.6 x 10^26m
Now, the circumerence is 2 pi r, so the error will be of the order of 2 r 10^-32. With r=4.6x10^26, this gives an error of 9.2 x 10^-6 m or essentially around 10^-5m or 10 micrometers. The width of a human hair is about 100 micrometers, so no, there is no real practical purpose to calculating digits beyond this point.
Not true. Back in school I used to win free beer by betting people that I could recite Pi to 50 digits.
Assuming you're going to be showered by ads anyway in today's media, do you want to be showered by ads 90% of which don't interest you? Or do you want ads which interest you 75% of the time?
I want ads that interest me 0% of the time. That way they can't influence me.
One of the HUGE advantages of linux (and other *nix derivatives) is the ability to seamlessly move the OS from one machine to another without having to make ANY changes. The only exception is moving from nvidia to ati video cards (or vise-versa), but the OS will still boot. These "check at install time" fixes are very dangerous to that huge feature.
You could check it at the beginning of every boot. If the setting was correct, continue. If it wasn't, automatically change it and reboot if necessary.
Canada is an "associate member". As far as I understand it, that means that ESA and the Canadian Agency cooperate. Also, the EU as a whole is a member.
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Chrome has an experimental option to move the tab bar to the side of the browser. They've been working on it for quite some time. Last time I tried it, early on, it was pretty buggy, indicating that this is really not a trivial change.
It's gone in Canary now.
Anyhow, who would you not offer an option for any UI behavior people are divided on? Sure, you'd want to hide most of them away in an "advanced" dialog somewhere to avoid clutter, but you can do that.
A valid reason would be to save the effort implementing that option.
The barrier to entry is so high that company A doesn't need to rely upon customer or author/publisher loyalty, and they don't need to rely upon subsidizing their business model to offer the best deal: they now offer the only deal.
They still have to compete against paper books and piracy.
To put numbers on that.
pi ~= 3.14159265358979323846264338327950
The first zero in pi appears 33 digits in. Memorising digits up to this first zero gives an error of less than 10^(-32). The radius of the known universe is 4.6 * 10^10, light years, and since a light year is close to 10^16m, the radius r is about 4.6 x 10^26m
Now, the circumerence is 2 pi r, so the error will be of the order of 2 r 10^-32. With r=4.6x10^26, this gives an error of 9.2 x 10^-6 m or essentially around 10^-5m or 10 micrometers. The width of a human hair is about 100 micrometers, so no, there is no real practical purpose to calculating digits beyond this point.
Not true. Back in school I used to win free beer by betting people that I could recite Pi to 50 digits.
Stallman will not approve of this.
Assuming you're going to be showered by ads anyway in today's media, do you want to be showered by ads 90% of which don't interest you? Or do you want ads which interest you 75% of the time?
I want ads that interest me 0% of the time. That way they can't influence me.
Have you just called the Jews "gremlins"?
It can be used to scroll down or up (press the SHIFT key and then the space bar).
I had never heard about that, thanks.
And increase boot time?
I don't think checking the MB against the list takes much time at all. Having to reboot does take longer, but should be rare.
Also, who wants to let the robots have all the fun?
Suits.
Microsoft invented .Net before Windows 95 was released?
germanyorflorida isn't defined yet.
Until you're 18 you don't have rights, you have privileges.
I'll go and find some minors whose parents don't object to them being raped then. After all, not being raped is not a right, it's a privilege.
Could you summarize some of his points, please? I'm not going to read this wall of text, certainly not as tired as I am right now.
/etc/init.d/sarcasm start
How can this not be prior art?
It's not ON A PHONE!.
Worthless, if it's not the children who get to make the choice.
One of the HUGE advantages of linux (and other *nix derivatives) is the ability to seamlessly move the OS from one machine to another without having to make ANY changes. The only exception is moving from nvidia to ati video cards (or vise-versa), but the OS will still boot. These "check at install time" fixes are very dangerous to that huge feature.
You could check it at the beginning of every boot. If the setting was correct, continue. If it wasn't, automatically change it and reboot if necessary.
No, the EU "as a whole" is not a member
Yes, it is.
Is there anything wrong with Apple's current HIGs?
Slashdot denies it: Slashdot is dying.
Canada is an "associate member". As far as I understand it, that means that ESA and the Canadian Agency cooperate. Also, the EU as a whole is a member.
It's only at 7? I'll rather use Firefox, then.
I'm not surprised you haven't found any root-kits.
Like, app stores?
If you're gaming online and someone claims you're being verbally abused, they're probably right.