> It's easy to see what tab you're currently visiting > and the other tabs fade into the background to be > less of a distraction when you're not using them.
I swear, if I ever meet a guy in a bar and he says he's on the UX team at Mozilla, I'm going to punch him in the dick as hard as I can. Now that all the background tabs are a mushy mass of grey, it is HARDER to tell them apart and jump to the one you want next. WHY DO YOU THINK TABS EXIST?!?!?
"when you're not using them" -- do you know what constitutes USING tabs? FINDING THEM AND CLICKING ON THEM.
Gee assholes, why don't you just put all my tabs behind that bullshit menu icon in the top right? That's be SUPER clean and easy-to-use! Out of sight, but right there when you need them! >:-|
If I wanted to know the title of the page I'M LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW -- not usually needed because I'M LOOKING AT IT RIGHT NOW -- I can glance at the title bar OH WHOOPS WAIT THAT'S FUCKING GONE TOO. Fucking retards.
Now, if they actually FIXED the sync, so you can just log in and not jump through the bullshit hoops of having a DIFFERENT instance of it open so you can type in the stupid PIN (WTF are you supposed to do if you want to sync two non-portable computers in different places?), *THAT* will be some progress.
And finally, a note to ALL browser makers: "View" -> "Source" should be a top-level menu, not buried behind some "developer tools" bullshit. FF, Safari, Chrome -- you're all guilty. "View source" is what made the web great. It SHOULD be easy to get at.
> The average teacher salary in Michigan, for example, is in the > 60Ks, for nine months of work (and so really in the upper 80Ks > adjusted for working nine months).
Where did you get that number from? This page says it's only $35k for Michigan. Feel free to point me to a better source.
And as for the old "summers off" bullshit, 1) teachers often go to conferences or work on their curriculum during the summer, or come in to do admin work (due to budgets always being cut) or move the library around etc., and 2) I've never met a teacher in my LIFE who worked just 8 hours per day. So yeah, multiply to account for 2 extra months off, and then divide to account for workdays that are typically 10-12 hours.
As for "how highly do you want them to be paid"? Well, given what CEOs and anyone in the financial sector earns for continually robbing the country and fucking everything up; and given what we pay actors, entertainers, and fucking ATHLETES; and given what we're actually asking teachers to DO, I can't think of any reason that teachers should earn less than doctors.
Then TFA and TFS are wrong -- COMPLETELY wrong -- when they say "police can stop and search a driver based solely [emphasis mine] on an anonymous 911 tip", since the decision clearly says "... under the totality of the circumstances..."
My bad -- I missed the little 'decision' link below the summary. I looked for it in the NPR story and didn't see it. I'm honestly surprised that NPR got it exactly wrong.
I have no problem with using info from a 911 call as a starting point, but relying solely on a call to initiate a search, even with "some features that allow for identifying and tracking callers", is no good.
Most people weren't impressed with the first home computers, either, and couldn't see a need for one. It'll take time, better and cheaper technology, and more known use cases. Look how long it took us to get from the AT and XT and Apple II and "you can use it for recipes and Oregon Trail!" to the iPad, Facebook, and Skype.
As soon as people learn that they can print a new battery cover for a remote control, or replace a small broken part of a kid's favorite toy, or some amazing thing no one has yet thought of, they'll start picking up. Personally, I can't wait. (I mean, I can wait, and I am waiting, but I'm really looking forward to having one and I already have a bunch of things in mind for when I get one. Just waiting for them to be a bit cheaper.)
The same way you download and print random cute, funny, or pretty pictures, imagine being able to download and print random neat stuff like this. (Sample I saw from a Makerbot in a Microsoft store.)
Holy hell, how did you get a "+5, Insightful" for getting it exactly backwards? Apple's strength is doing things WELL, not doing things FIRST.
1998 - iMac - first all-in-one? No. 2001 - iPod - first digital music player? No. 2003 - iTunes Store - first place to buy digital content online? No. 2007 - iPhone - first touchscreen smartphone? No. 2010 - iPad - first tablet computer? No.
> Apple's entire business is based on breaking new > ground with an innovative new product
Their innovation is making you say "wow, a cool tech product that isn't a giant piece of shit! This is what I wanted when people first started talking about _______!" They do this by innovating key refinements, usually with the goal of "ease of use."*
And given that there are plenty of shitty, underserved markets out there, I think they'll continue to do OK.
* I.e., they didn't make the iPhone with a capacitive touchscreen and hardware-accelerated GUI just because those specs look cool when listed on the side of the box -- they did it because it made the (properly-designed) interface extremely responsive, natural, realistic, and therefore easy to use.
Answer: NONE. A downloaded video from iTunes will be about the same size as the file you get when you rip a dvd or bluray disc. You can pick comparable dimensions, codecs, and bitrates and you'll pretty much get the same picture and sound quality.
Now, if certain providers won't let you download content and make you stream it over and over, that's an issue, but the amount of data used by the DRM itself is not.
> No search is involved or permitted > solely based on an anonymous tip
The first sentence of TFA and TFS says "The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police can stop and search a driver based solely on an anonymous 911 tip." I haven't read the decision myself so I could be wrong, but that's what it says here.
> an anonymous tip... falls under > the "reasonable suspicion" standard > for pulling someone over.
Tell me your license plate number, the make, model, and color of your car, and the city and state you're currently in, and I'll arrange for a personal demonstration of why an anonymous call should not be considered reasonable suspicion.
Do you really not see the countless ways this could be abused?
Seriously, 3 typos in the first sentence? "A new project proposes _an_ do away with dead 404 errors by implementing (missing: "a") new HTML attribute _hat_ will help access prior versions of hyperlinked content."
1) I'm not sure if this is the original source of this or not, but I started making an effort to move around more after seeing Sitting Is Killing You. I just wish it were available in a more compact form than the giant infographic. (Update: seems to be from Medical Billing & Coding, but their copy is gone. Also, the copy at lifehack org/articles/lifestyle/why-sitting-is-killing-you.html has a higher google rank but those assholes cut off the last slide with the credits and references.)
2) A blog I read linked to this blog post just yesterday:
My journey to standing all day looked like this:
Day One: stood for two hours, and didn't get much work done. Finally sat down and just wanted to cry. Day Two: basically the same thing as day one for the next week. Week Two: Things were better. Month Two: I can now stand for about 6 hours a day, but more importantly I have finally broken the urge to sit down when I need to concentrate on something. Month Four: I stand all day, and can work effectively now while I stand. I still go home with sore feet and legs. Month Eight: The soreness is mostly gone and I can stand fine. Year Two: I can't focus as well when I sit, and my legs/feet rarely feel sore. I've also ditched the anti-fatigue matt. Year Three: It feels weird, and too loungey, to sit and work.
So if they say technology "is making" things worse, I assume they have videos from 10 or 20 years ago to compare to this new footage?
I've lived near and worked in SF and have plenty of experience ignoring the homeless. You just have to. As a friend of mine -- who has a degree in theology -- once said, "If I sold everything I owned and gave all the money to the homeless, the end result would be that there's one more homeless person in the world." I've given money to some and ignored others.
Homelessness is a very complex issue with many sides. Some people are homeless by choice, some due to losing a job/house/etc., some due to mental issues or addictions. Some are benign, some are dangerous. And the #1 issue for anyone who thinks homelessness can be easily "solved": Some would work if given the chance, some wouldn't.
>> Black men can start by seriously trying to parent their >> children instead of leaving them to be raised by single >> mothers in broken homes in bad neighbourhoods.
> This is almost as laughable as "The poor just need to > stop being poor, then they could afford health care."
Nothing wrong with most of that sentence -- "Black men can start by seriously trying to parent their children instead of leaving them to be raised by single mothers in broken homes." ("Broken home" in the figurative sense of "separated parents".) And hey, once you have the cost savings of living together, you can move somewhere better, thus taking care of the "in bad neighborhoods" part, too.
They don't talk about the choke specifically, but they do say... "The distribution of pellets is influenced by all kinds of factors, such as the height of the gun, the distance to the target, wind direction and so on. So this distribution is not random. To get around this, they are able to fall back on a technique known as importance sampling. This is a trick that allows mathematicians to estimate the properties of one type of distribution while using samples generated by a different distribution."
All kinds of questions are answered in TFA. I know, I'm new here...
Seeing as how his question says "About ten boxes here are still running Windows XP" I don't think he uses a single thing you mention. Not EVERY company has 50k machines, not do they have a huge staff with many years of experience.
That said, it all comes down to "what tools do you need to do your job?" Some places live and die by Office-specific features, other places wouldn't even notice if you switched office suites as long as they can use a spreadsheet app to make color-coded 2-dimensional lists. He's going about it exactly the right way -- setting up a small test environment.
If you won't believe some random guy on Slashdot, will you believe some random guy on Wikipedia?
"Pure water has a low electrical conductivity, but this increases with the dissolution of a small amount of ionic material such as sodium chloride."
Yes, pure water has very low conductivity. The reason you always hear "OMG NOES don't get electronics wet!" because all the water you encounter in day-to-day life is nowhere near pure. Tap water and bottled water are safe from a human-consumption point-of-view but that is very different from chemically "pure" water.
... what about the fact that about 95% of "revenge porn" is fake -- just staged to look that way and then sold to people who like the idea? Take a look at gfrevenge . com (purposely not made into a link; absolutely NSFW) and let me know if you think there's one piece of actual revenge porn on there.
Slashdot Mirror
"Episode 7: The Lens Flares"
I like it! :-)
> It's easy to see what tab you're currently visiting
> and the other tabs fade into the background to be
> less of a distraction when you're not using them.
I swear, if I ever meet a guy in a bar and he says he's on the UX team at Mozilla, I'm going to punch him in the dick as hard as I can. Now that all the background tabs are a mushy mass of grey, it is HARDER to tell them apart and jump to the one you want next. WHY DO YOU THINK TABS EXIST?!?!?
"when you're not using them" -- do you know what constitutes USING tabs? FINDING THEM AND CLICKING ON THEM.
Gee assholes, why don't you just put all my tabs behind that bullshit menu icon in the top right? That's be SUPER clean and easy-to-use! Out of sight, but right there when you need them! >:-|
If I wanted to know the title of the page I'M LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW -- not usually needed because I'M LOOKING AT IT RIGHT NOW -- I can glance at the title bar OH WHOOPS WAIT THAT'S FUCKING GONE TOO. Fucking retards.
Yes, I got the fucking extension to un-fuck-up the theme, but I shouldn't have to do this all the time.
Now, if they actually FIXED the sync, so you can just log in and not jump through the bullshit hoops of having a DIFFERENT instance of it open so you can type in the stupid PIN (WTF are you supposed to do if you want to sync two non-portable computers in different places?), *THAT* will be some progress.
For everything else, click here and tell them how much they suck.
And finally, a note to ALL browser makers: "View" -> "Source" should be a top-level menu, not buried behind some "developer tools" bullshit. FF, Safari, Chrome -- you're all guilty. "View source" is what made the web great. It SHOULD be easy to get at.
> The average teacher salary in Michigan, for example, is in the
> 60Ks, for nine months of work (and so really in the upper 80Ks
> adjusted for working nine months).
Where did you get that number from? This page says it's only $35k for Michigan. Feel free to point me to a better source.
And as for the old "summers off" bullshit, 1) teachers often go to conferences or work on their curriculum during the summer, or come in to do admin work (due to budgets always being cut) or move the library around etc., and 2) I've never met a teacher in my LIFE who worked just 8 hours per day. So yeah, multiply to account for 2 extra months off, and then divide to account for workdays that are typically 10-12 hours.
As for "how highly do you want them to be paid"? Well, given what CEOs and anyone in the financial sector earns for continually robbing the country and fucking everything up; and given what we pay actors, entertainers, and fucking ATHLETES; and given what we're actually asking teachers to DO, I can't think of any reason that teachers should earn less than doctors.
Then TFA and TFS are wrong -- COMPLETELY wrong -- when they say "police can stop and search a driver based solely [emphasis mine] on an anonymous 911 tip", since the decision clearly says "... under the totality of the circumstances..."
My bad -- I missed the little 'decision' link below the summary. I looked for it in the NPR story and didn't see it. I'm honestly surprised that NPR got it exactly wrong.
I have no problem with using info from a 911 call as a starting point, but relying solely on a call to initiate a search, even with "some features that allow for identifying and tracking callers", is no good.
Most people weren't impressed with the first home computers, either, and couldn't see a need for one. It'll take time, better and cheaper technology, and more known use cases. Look how long it took us to get from the AT and XT and Apple II and "you can use it for recipes and Oregon Trail!" to the iPad, Facebook, and Skype.
As soon as people learn that they can print a new battery cover for a remote control, or replace a small broken part of a kid's favorite toy, or some amazing thing no one has yet thought of, they'll start picking up. Personally, I can't wait. (I mean, I can wait, and I am waiting, but I'm really looking forward to having one and I already have a bunch of things in mind for when I get one. Just waiting for them to be a bit cheaper.)
The same way you download and print random cute, funny, or pretty pictures, imagine being able to download and print random neat stuff like this. (Sample I saw from a Makerbot in a Microsoft store.)
Holy hell, how did you get a "+5, Insightful" for getting it exactly backwards? Apple's strength is doing things WELL, not doing things FIRST.
1998 - iMac - first all-in-one? No.
2001 - iPod - first digital music player? No.
2003 - iTunes Store - first place to buy digital content online? No.
2007 - iPhone - first touchscreen smartphone? No.
2010 - iPad - first tablet computer? No.
> Apple's entire business is based on breaking new
> ground with an innovative new product
Their innovation is making you say "wow, a cool tech product that isn't a giant piece of shit! This is what I wanted when people first started talking about _______!" They do this by innovating key refinements, usually with the goal of "ease of use."*
And given that there are plenty of shitty, underserved markets out there, I think they'll continue to do OK.
* I.e., they didn't make the iPhone with a capacitive touchscreen and hardware-accelerated GUI just because those specs look cool when listed on the side of the box -- they did it because it made the (properly-designed) interface extremely responsive, natural, realistic, and therefore easy to use.
Answer: NONE. A downloaded video from iTunes will be about the same size as the file you get when you rip a dvd or bluray disc. You can pick comparable dimensions, codecs, and bitrates and you'll pretty much get the same picture and sound quality.
Now, if certain providers won't let you download content and make you stream it over and over, that's an issue, but the amount of data used by the DRM itself is not.
> No search is involved or permitted
> solely based on an anonymous tip
The first sentence of TFA and TFS says "The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police can stop and search a driver based solely on an anonymous 911 tip." I haven't read the decision myself so I could be wrong, but that's what it says here.
> an anonymous tip... falls under
> the "reasonable suspicion" standard
> for pulling someone over.
Tell me your license plate number, the make, model, and color of your car, and the city and state you're currently in, and I'll arrange for a personal demonstration of why an anonymous call should not be considered reasonable suspicion.
Do you really not see the countless ways this could be abused?
They go so well with value scarves.
Seriously, 3 typos in the first sentence? "A new project proposes _an_ do away with dead 404 errors by implementing (missing: "a") new HTML attribute _hat_ will help access prior versions of hyperlinked content."
Where are the editors? Oh, right. Carry on.
An old favorite: George Carlin on golf. (3 1/2 minutes)
1) I'm not sure if this is the original source of this or not, but I started making an effort to move around more after seeing Sitting Is Killing You. I just wish it were available in a more compact form than the giant infographic. (Update: seems to be from Medical Billing & Coding, but their copy is gone. Also, the copy at lifehack org/articles/lifestyle/why-sitting-is-killing-you.html has a higher google rank but those assholes cut off the last slide with the credits and references.)
2) A blog I read linked to this blog post just yesterday:
My journey to standing all day looked like this:
Day One: stood for two hours, and didn't get much work done. Finally sat down and just wanted to cry.
Day Two: basically the same thing as day one for the next week.
Week Two: Things were better.
Month Two: I can now stand for about 6 hours a day, but more importantly I have finally broken the urge to sit down when I need to concentrate on something.
Month Four: I stand all day, and can work effectively now while I stand. I still go home with sore feet and legs.
Month Eight: The soreness is mostly gone and I can stand fine.
Year Two: I can't focus as well when I sit, and my legs/feet rarely feel sore. I've also ditched the anti-fatigue matt.
Year Three: It feels weird, and too loungey, to sit and work.
So if they say technology "is making" things worse, I assume they have videos from 10 or 20 years ago to compare to this new footage?
I've lived near and worked in SF and have plenty of experience ignoring the homeless. You just have to. As a friend of mine -- who has a degree in theology -- once said, "If I sold everything I owned and gave all the money to the homeless, the end result would be that there's one more homeless person in the world." I've given money to some and ignored others.
Homelessness is a very complex issue with many sides. Some people are homeless by choice, some due to losing a job/house/etc., some due to mental issues or addictions. Some are benign, some are dangerous. And the #1 issue for anyone who thinks homelessness can be easily "solved": Some would work if given the chance, some wouldn't.
> when one of the historic buildings burned down,
> they had almost daily coverage on the progress.
Wow. Must've taken a long time to burn down. :-)
20 years at $50k is pretty reasonable. Now just quit charging things and you might actually have some money in 20 years.
>> Black men can start by seriously trying to parent their
>> children instead of leaving them to be raised by single
>> mothers in broken homes in bad neighbourhoods.
> This is almost as laughable as "The poor just need to
> stop being poor, then they could afford health care."
Nothing wrong with most of that sentence -- "Black men can start by seriously trying to parent their children instead of leaving them to be raised by single mothers in broken homes." ("Broken home" in the figurative sense of "separated parents".) And hey, once you have the cost savings of living together, you can move somewhere better, thus taking care of the "in bad neighborhoods" part, too.
Work out, get some allies, and beat the ever-loving shit out of the bully. You'll get off easier.
That's obviously the school's lesson here.
They don't talk about the choke specifically, but they do say... "The distribution of pellets is influenced by all kinds of factors, such as the height of the gun, the distance to the target, wind direction and so on. So this distribution is not random. To get around this, they are able to fall back on a technique known as importance sampling. This is a trick that allows mathematicians to estimate the properties of one type of distribution while using samples generated by a different distribution."
All kinds of questions are answered in TFA. I know, I'm new here...
> In 99% of the US, "not driving" amounts to
> a sentence of death-by-life-on-welfare
If you get your license pulled, they usually allow you to drive to and from work.
Seeing as how his question says "About ten boxes here are still running Windows XP" I don't think he uses a single thing you mention. Not EVERY company has 50k machines, not do they have a huge staff with many years of experience.
That said, it all comes down to "what tools do you need to do your job?" Some places live and die by Office-specific features, other places wouldn't even notice if you switched office suites as long as they can use a spreadsheet app to make color-coded 2-dimensional lists. He's going about it exactly the right way -- setting up a small test environment.
If you won't believe some random guy on Slashdot, will you believe some random guy on Wikipedia?
"Pure water has a low electrical conductivity, but this increases with the dissolution of a small amount of ionic material such as sodium chloride."
Yes, pure water has very low conductivity. The reason you always hear "OMG NOES don't get electronics wet!" because all the water you encounter in day-to-day life is nowhere near pure. Tap water and bottled water are safe from a human-consumption point-of-view but that is very different from chemically "pure" water.
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
OS X only gets mildly more annoying once a year, as opposed to Windows, which is a monumental fuckup every few years.
... what about the fact that about 95% of "revenge porn" is fake -- just staged to look that way and then sold to people who like the idea? Take a look at gfrevenge . com (purposely not made into a link; absolutely NSFW) and let me know if you think there's one piece of actual revenge porn on there.
Start working at a medium/large-ish company in any random capacity.
Start solving problems with code.
Piss off I.T.
Eventually join I.T.*
Source: my career at a publisher, 1995-present.
Education: BA, History, 1995. Math minor.
* Optional; not recommended.
You Don't Know Jack still exists? Huh.
> Even if you put the screen up by the window, with
> a mirror you can always move your head a bit to
> get a bit more visual context.
What if the camera let you see 3x more in the first place? You wouldn't need to adjust your field of view.