We have disasters everywhere. Hurricanes in the gulf, earthquakes in the west, tornadoes in the midwest, terrorists out east.
And, we help each other. If you can't deal with sharing the burden of disasters, get your Libertarian ass off to your own island and live by your own independent self.
"The team also is working to totally exonerate any possibility of the perchlorate readings being influenced by terrestrial sources which may have migrated from the spacecraft, either into samples or into the instrumentation. "
Google's page rank patent has no reason to exist. The point of a patent is to protect innovation in trade for disclosing how that innovation is done. Google does not disclose how they rank pages. Their actual page rank algorithm is a trade secret. They seem to get benefits both ways, patent protection for the page rank idea, but don't disclose how they really do it. That simply seems to violate the spirit under which patent protection might be granted.
The study takes a very nieve view of updates. They assume any update can have no new problems. They do not even mention the possibility that the update might be worse than the user's current version.
Software sometimes does have bugs. In fact, many of the updates include security patched to fix bugs.
Grabbing the latest new thing is often just as bad as waiting too long.
If you are creating software intended to be used by Humans, you need to consider designing interfaces which work well with them. Apple's Apple Human Interface Guidelines remain remarkably unchanged from the first days of the Macintosh. Here is the basic bullet point topic list.
Metaphors Reflect the User's Mental Model Explicit and Implied Actions Direct Manipulation User Control Feedback and Communication Consistency WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Forgiveness Perceived Stability Aesthetic Integrity Modelessness Managing Complexity in Your Software
Sure, Apple is well known for detailing all the mind blowing user features months ahead of their release. Jobs hates to surprise us in his demos. Nothing new here, just move on...
Yea, right. Apple can announce internal systems support goals, wait for Steve's demo at release time for the wow stuff Apple builds on top of these new, improved services.
"Obama is getting money in torrents from IP people from Hollywood"
Wow, Hollywood is using Torrents! Thats the most creative method of creating cash flow I've ever heard of. We could probably balance the Federal budget in no time from Pirate Bay. I'll start a seed with $5.00 right away...
Sequoia's Explanation, and Why It's Not the Whole Story http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1267... "Let's assume the Democrat party is assigned option switch 6 while the Republican Party is assigned options switch 12. If a Democrat voter arrives, the poll worker presses the "6 button followed by the green "Activate" button. The Democrat contests are activated and the voter votes the ballot. "...
Then the following comment nails it:
"Rich Kulawiec Says: March 20th, 2008 at 2:59 pm I'm working through this explanation with a paper-and-pencil mockup, but meanwhile I'll note Sequoia's use of the right-wing code phrase "Democrat Party" instead of "Democratic Party". It seems to have become fashionable of late among some to use this term as a thinly-veiled insult, then deny that it's intentional. Given how carefully [at least some portions of] this explanation seem to be worded, I don't for a moment believe this is a mistake."
This is what they swore to do: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter."
They are not there to protect the people from terror, but to defend the Constitution from its domestic enemies like our President.
Hillary doesn't need to win on the first convention ballot.
Edwards has 26 pledged delegates. Barack needs to win by 50% to take it on the first convention vote.
Hillary only needs enough votes to force a second or third convention vote. Edward's votes are 'not for Barack' votes. Once those votes are freed, then all votes are freed and politics kicks in. Then its the momentum mood of the day and backroom deals that count.
The Apple Human Interface Guidelines were based on the Human Interface Design Principles defined by Bruce Tognazzini. They have stood the test of time.
These principles include the use of Metaphors, Modelessness, User Control, Direct Manipulation, See-and-Point, Consistency, Feedback and Dialog, WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Forgiveness, Perceived Stability and Aesthetic Integrity.
Additional considerations include Knowledge of Your Audience, Worldwide Compatibility and Universal Accessibility. You can find these concepts explained in detail in Apple's Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines.
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We have disasters everywhere. Hurricanes in the gulf, earthquakes in the west, tornadoes in the midwest, terrorists out east.
And, we help each other. If you can't deal with sharing the burden of disasters, get your Libertarian ass off to your own island and live by your own independent self.
but it looks like she beat out Romney in the swimsuit competition.
So little experience.
So much less of the same.
The Water Cube is actually a 'parallelepiped'
next they might suggest you could create an open source encyclopedia
"The team also is working to totally exonerate any possibility of the perchlorate readings being influenced by terrestrial sources which may have migrated from the spacecraft, either into samples or into the instrumentation. "
Whoops,
That should be:
http://www.fsf.org/about/contact.html
Here is a link with a few addresses to send your thoughts on this stupidity:
http://www.eff.org/about/staff
Spam deserves spam.
Looks like its time for Apple developers to start submitting bugs into Linux projects.
One good deed deserves another. Lets see how buggy we can make Linux.
These guys are jerks.
Google's page rank patent has no reason to exist. The point of a patent is to protect innovation in trade for disclosing how that innovation is done. Google does not disclose how they rank pages. Their actual page rank algorithm is a trade secret. They seem to get benefits both ways, patent protection for the page rank idea, but don't disclose how they really do it. That simply seems to violate the spirit under which patent protection might be granted.
The study takes a very nieve view of updates. They assume any update can have no new problems. They do not even mention the possibility that the update might be worse than the user's current version.
Software sometimes does have bugs. In fact, many of the updates include security patched to fix bugs.
Grabbing the latest new thing is often just as bad as waiting too long.
Why not just use photovoltaics?
They produce electricity directly when we need it the most, the daytime.
They can be built less than a foot high!
Remember, in limit poker your bet is limited to a simple raise and dinky balls.
If you are creating software intended to be used by Humans, you need to consider designing interfaces which work well with them. Apple's Apple Human Interface Guidelines remain remarkably unchanged from the first days of the Macintosh. Here is the basic bullet point topic list.
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/XHIGHIDesign/chapter_5_section_2.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000353-TPXREF130
Metaphors
Reflect the User's Mental Model
Explicit and Implied Actions
Direct Manipulation
User Control
Feedback and Communication
Consistency
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)
Forgiveness
Perceived Stability
Aesthetic Integrity
Modelessness
Managing Complexity in Your Software
Sure, Apple is well known for detailing all the mind blowing user features months ahead of their release. Jobs hates to surprise us in his demos. Nothing new here, just move on...
Yea, right. Apple can announce internal systems support goals, wait for Steve's demo at release time for the wow stuff Apple builds on top of these new, improved services.
"Obama is getting money in torrents from IP people from Hollywood"
Wow, Hollywood is using Torrents! Thats the most creative method of creating cash flow I've ever heard of. We could probably balance the Federal budget in no time from Pirate Bay. I'll start a seed with $5.00 right away...
Decades ago I used an OS built from a bunch of text files. I think it was called 'UNIX'. Some bits of it are really old, unchanged and still in use.
Sequoia's Explanation, and Why It's Not the Whole Story ... ...
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1267
"Let's assume the Democrat party is assigned option switch 6 while the Republican Party is assigned options switch 12. If a Democrat voter arrives, the poll worker presses the "6 button followed by the green "Activate" button. The Democrat contests are activated and the voter votes the ballot. "
Then the following comment nails it:
"Rich Kulawiec Says:
March 20th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
I'm working through this explanation with a paper-and-pencil mockup, but meanwhile I'll note Sequoia's use of the right-wing code phrase "Democrat Party" instead of "Democratic Party". It seems to have become fashionable of late among some to use this term as a thinly-veiled insult, then deny that it's intentional. Given how carefully [at least some portions of] this explanation seem to be worded, I don't for a moment believe this is a mistake."
Do we have monthly backups of current White House correspondence held securely by a separate body like the Judiciary?
And, if not, why not?
This is what they swore to do:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter."
They are not there to protect the people from terror, but to defend the Constitution from its domestic enemies like our President.
Thats why we should have unlimited visas for critical positions and set a minimum base pay at $120k.
Every time you moon me,
I see a ring around Uranus...
Hillary doesn't need to win on the first convention ballot.
Edwards has 26 pledged delegates. Barack needs to win by 50% to take it on the first convention vote.
Hillary only needs enough votes to force a second or third convention vote. Edward's votes are 'not for Barack' votes. Once those votes are freed, then all votes are freed and politics kicks in. Then its the momentum mood of the day and backroom deals that count.
The Apple Human Interface Guidelines were based on the Human Interface Design Principles defined by Bruce Tognazzini. They have stood the test of time.
These principles include the use of Metaphors, Modelessness, User Control, Direct Manipulation, See-and-Point, Consistency, Feedback and Dialog, WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Forgiveness, Perceived Stability and Aesthetic Integrity.
Additional considerations include Knowledge of Your Audience, Worldwide Compatibility and Universal Accessibility. You can find these concepts explained in detail in Apple's Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines.
Torturing terrorists is illegal.
I haven't bought from these terrorists in years, either.