Compare that to the graph in the article with the diagonal line, see how successful projects generally stay above the line (the diagonal one in the article, the flat one in my link). The edge is already well below it unfortunatly, and is quite early in funding. It shouldn't dip below until quite late in a campaign of at all, and it should never get anywhere near as low as it is now.
I don't buy into the the argument that a religions age is what matters, but the Christians were better at 600 than at 1400, as were the Muslims.
Of course Judaism has genocide happening at 1500ish BC if memory serves correctly, I don't know when we want to say it became monotheistic though to map it onto the time.
There does appear to be a pattern of religions beginning inclusive, getting power and becoming aggressive/violent, and then resigning to a period where they are cultural though.
I frequently have many explorer windows open, it helps me organize my thoughts, and Windows 7 helps me do it efficiently.
Windows XP would group same applications, so clicking got you a list of words big enough to read. I personally prefer sweeping through the thumbnails, but most people treat that as learning something new, even as they essentially alt-tab everything on their phone (which I would generally consider a power user type thing on a desktop, power user being someone not afraid of computers).
I really like Windows 7's interface, but it was a lot more different than simply a pallet swap, which (95 -> xp -> Vista essentially was).
It may be more familiar than OS X, but it's not much from what I can tell.
PS, ugh, double clicking in websites hurts my brain to watch.
Word did this in the late 90's (at least) too, changing your default printer would cause things to render slightly differently, sometimes causing text to reflow.
Especially the concept of a purpose built general purposish interface (yay nonsense sentence).
People are used to phones, using a phone focused interface, but being damned near as flexible as a computer for them (full screen window with task switching).
A TV with a TV built interface (or one designed by an idiot if you use the PS3, way to sell me download games that are at times more annoying to find on the screen than a disk would be to put in).
I think there's stilla mental block to a "computer" being different though, just not a TV, or a phone, or a tablet.
I watch people double click the large icons in the taskbar/dock/quick launch all the time. They are used to double clicking on icoons that size.
I watch them confused and squinting at thumbnails to switch windows when they are used to words.
I REALLY like the new taskbar. I love dragging across the screen and seeing full size windows on a totally uncluttered screen, clicking when I want one, and everything else re-appears behind it. But it's very confusing to many people. The edge snap sizing confuses people too, they don't see why they would want it, and it interferes with getting things out of the way.
If windows 7 had an always on top button, and space between close and the other buttons, it would be the closest to perfect UI I've dealt with.
I'm waiting for someone to ape the taskbar in KDE (there are some options that get close, but they are astheticaly similar, they don't function efficiently).
Windows 8 fucked up the start button buy trying to ape Ubuntu and Gnome 3 from what I can tell (I've only used it a few times, but when I use it I feel like I need to travel left and right and am confused, I liked a little box to type three letters and go).
I assume that's the difference I assume, these are records the cell company kept for their own use and can give away as they see fit (and unfortunately have to even with no subpoena).
Your texts, email etc SHOULD be treated as yours, under the theory that you are renting the space they are stored, but it is your private info. I dont think the courts are consistent even there though.
I see this as a case where private companies keep too much data that they gleefully hand over, but even if they wanted to fought it, there is nothing but a secret court to fight much of it in. Considering the tracking info will clearly cover times when there was an expectation of privacy, it wouldn't shock me to see it overturned.
Am I the only one that doesn't think that phones need to CPU/GPU race anymore? I'm not at all concerned about the SOC.
The features it has that are fairly unique are the ones I want (sapphire screen, I am smart enough to not drop my phone, but too stupid to keep it separate from my keys...). The fact that it is being deisnged with one handed use is a big perk, the vast majority of high-end phones are not. Lots of storage without the need for an SD card (this is one of those no brainers that typical phones skip to mark up ridicules amounts in a higher end model). Focus on an actually good camera rather than megapixel spec.
As long as the screen is true pixels, I would buy this phone when my current one dies (but not how).
I currently have an HTC 1 S, which was a better mid-range, or lower high-end phone when it came out last year, I have 3 complaints I suspect this would fix.
1) the lack of blue elements in the pixels gives strait lines a fuzzy edge 2) the battery life could be better (I assume new screens would fix that, as 50%+ of my battery use is screen) 3) the front camera sucks 4) storage is one too, so I guess that's 4
The main things it got right (that high-end phones were lacking) 1) really good main camera 2) the right size to actually use
The Ubuntu Edge, much like I believe the HTC 1 S, or the iPhone (though not the one, or one x) is designed for usability, not specs. It's the Android phone I want to buy next.
Blizzard (as a super Nintendo developer) was one of the first game companies to make me a fan of said company, as things with their name were generally awesome (Micro Prose too). I spent countless hours playing Rock n Roll racing with my friends, it wasn't the first game I played with that, but it was the first one that for some reason kept us up all night long trying to get better.
I don't even know if there are companies I feel that way about anymore,/MAYBE/ Nintendo, but since I lost my Wii I haven't played any of their stuff.
BioWare maybe?
Sega? as long as it's not Sonic.
There's games I like, and I'm not trying to whine about the good old day, but the days of seeing a name consistently in the flash screen and being able to equate it with quality are done, If there are teams like this still working, they are being buried too deep in the credits, giving the recognition to larger entities that churn lots of crap. It's a shame, I used to be able to look and see a game that was interested, and if the names were right know it was good, now I need to wade through reviews (or if I'm lucky Yahtzee has a critique).
The middle class is far different where you are than I am, it is heavily democrat voting here.
The way I see it, the last president with a reasonable fiscal policy was Clinton (working with republicans), and before that was Bush (working with democrats, who took a bullet raising taxes allowing Clinton to work on closing the deficit over two terms). I see little evidence that parties are capable of sane policy working on their own, or that they work together at all anymore, which gives me concern for the long run.
First president bush knew that occupying nations was a bad idea, and spent a lot of time trying to end the practice if assassination as director of the CIA, his son did the opposite (though Obama seems to be a mad scientist thrilled with murder from a distance with his robots, taking things to a new level). Drones are relatively cheap, I wonder what happens when mexico starts applying the same policies as the US to their use, and decides it's easier to strike the drug lords when they spend time in the US. Under current US policy you can send drones into a friendly nation and assassinate people where there will be obvious collateral damage, the targets can be your own citizens that never are presented with a chance of defending alleged actions, and the public given no scrutiny over the evidence (of course this can happen within the US too, even though one would think that the ability to arrest a local would make that the required action).
I'd suspect that even now most of Gitmo isn't terrorists, many were those that opposed warlords (at the start of Afghani operations) that were turned in for a bounty. Rather than admit mistake (the army taking the word of warlords hoping to grab local power in the vacuum once the Taliban was gone), they have been kept, but as they've been branded terrorists, nobody wants them. They are the problem, it's easy enough to detain the actual and obvious combatants, it's fear of letting anyone slip through that we have no evidence one way or the other that poses a problem (because fuvk human rights, we in the US have decided they only apply to Americans (or are extremely limited)).
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No it didn't, it had a very normal progression from what I can tell. I assume in this graph the green is the average daily amount predicting the total earned. http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous/#chart-exp-trend
Compare that to the graph in the article with the diagonal line, see how successful projects generally stay above the line (the diagonal one in the article, the flat one in my link). The edge is already well below it unfortunatly, and is quite early in funding. It shouldn't dip below until quite late in a campaign of at all, and it should never get anywhere near as low as it is now.
The article does predict they'll raise 20 million, I would of said that was absurd too.
The interface to unity feels like it's designed to accidently close windows, I can't imagine people uncomfortable with a mouse being able to use it.
Also, on a maximized window the close button is of infinite size in two directions (it's in a corner), and adjacent to the start button.
This is one of the biggest failures of design I've seen. It clutters the rather small (since it's vertical) with a huge start button too.
A major regression from early unity, one that I cannot fathom the cause of, I suppose they wanted the ubuntu logo to be bigger.
I can immediately tell the difference, it's quite stark IMO.
I do not know that going past the retina iPad would have payback for me.
Where do you live that it's easy to get a job as a garbage man because nobody wants the job?
Where do you live the McDonald's is always understaffed and just takes anybody that walks in the door?
And where do you live that the homeless aren't obviously seriously mentally ill?
I read the article and come to a different conclusion than you.
Sounds very likely he'll live.
I don't buy into the the argument that a religions age is what matters, but the Christians were better at 600 than at 1400, as were the Muslims.
Of course Judaism has genocide happening at 1500ish BC if memory serves correctly, I don't know when we want to say it became monotheistic though to map it onto the time.
There does appear to be a pattern of religions beginning inclusive, getting power and becoming aggressive/violent, and then resigning to a period where they are cultural though.
Yes, there's both less torture and less transparency in the US.
I frequently have many explorer windows open, it helps me organize my thoughts, and Windows 7 helps me do it efficiently.
Windows XP would group same applications, so clicking got you a list of words big enough to read. I personally prefer sweeping through the thumbnails, but most people treat that as learning something new, even as they essentially alt-tab everything on their phone (which I would generally consider a power user type thing on a desktop, power user being someone not afraid of computers).
I really like Windows 7's interface, but it was a lot more different than simply a pallet swap, which (95 -> xp -> Vista essentially was).
It may be more familiar than OS X, but it's not much from what I can tell.
PS, ugh, double clicking in websites hurts my brain to watch.
I feel like I need to click lower left, and then travel right to click what I want. Like clicking lower left brings the menu on the right.
like this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+8+start+menu&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=AW35UeewCoj54AOG-4C4BQ&biw=1150&bih=802&sei=A235Ud2sI_LB4APq04GgCg#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=hVTDQDiCK-lUfM%3A%3BcKkEGX7Dp-2snM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.soluto.com%252Fkb%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2012%252F10%252Fcontrol-panel.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.soluto.com%252Fkb%252Fwindows-8%252Fwhere-is-the-start-menu-and-start-button-on-windows-8%252F%3B1680%3B1050
Word did this in the late 90's (at least) too, changing your default printer would cause things to render slightly differently, sometimes causing text to reflow.
Especially the concept of a purpose built general purposish interface (yay nonsense sentence).
People are used to phones, using a phone focused interface, but being damned near as flexible as a computer for them (full screen window with task switching).
A TV with a TV built interface (or one designed by an idiot if you use the PS3, way to sell me download games that are at times more annoying to find on the screen than a disk would be to put in).
I think there's stilla mental block to a "computer" being different though, just not a TV, or a phone, or a tablet.
I watch people double click the large icons in the taskbar/dock/quick launch all the time. They are used to double clicking on icoons that size.
I watch them confused and squinting at thumbnails to switch windows when they are used to words.
I REALLY like the new taskbar. I love dragging across the screen and seeing full size windows on a totally uncluttered screen, clicking when I want one, and everything else re-appears behind it. But it's very confusing to many people. The edge snap sizing confuses people too, they don't see why they would want it, and it interferes with getting things out of the way.
If windows 7 had an always on top button, and space between close and the other buttons, it would be the closest to perfect UI I've dealt with.
I'm waiting for someone to ape the taskbar in KDE (there are some options that get close, but they are astheticaly similar, they don't function efficiently).
Windows 8 fucked up the start button buy trying to ape Ubuntu and Gnome 3 from what I can tell (I've only used it a few times, but when I use it I feel like I need to travel left and right and am confused, I liked a little box to type three letters and go).
Do you have access to your location data?
I assume that's the difference I assume, these are records the cell company kept for their own use and can give away as they see fit (and unfortunately have to even with no subpoena).
Your texts, email etc SHOULD be treated as yours, under the theory that you are renting the space they are stored, but it is your private info. I dont think the courts are consistent even there though.
I see this as a case where private companies keep too much data that they gleefully hand over, but even if they wanted to fought it, there is nothing but a secret court to fight much of it in. Considering the tracking info will clearly cover times when there was an expectation of privacy, it wouldn't shock me to see it overturned.
This may very well be a compelling enough argument for me to get over myself and eat them!
Who does that anymore?
My last month had 23 minutes, and I use my phone as a work and personal phone.
Am I the only one that doesn't think that phones need to CPU/GPU race anymore? I'm not at all concerned about the SOC.
The features it has that are fairly unique are the ones I want (sapphire screen, I am smart enough to not drop my phone, but too stupid to keep it separate from my keys...). The fact that it is being deisnged with one handed use is a big perk, the vast majority of high-end phones are not. Lots of storage without the need for an SD card (this is one of those no brainers that typical phones skip to mark up ridicules amounts in a higher end model). Focus on an actually good camera rather than megapixel spec.
As long as the screen is true pixels, I would buy this phone when my current one dies (but not how).
I currently have an HTC 1 S, which was a better mid-range, or lower high-end phone when it came out last year, I have 3 complaints I suspect this would fix.
1) the lack of blue elements in the pixels gives strait lines a fuzzy edge
2) the battery life could be better (I assume new screens would fix that, as 50%+ of my battery use is screen)
3) the front camera sucks
4) storage is one too, so I guess that's 4
The main things it got right (that high-end phones were lacking)
1) really good main camera
2) the right size to actually use
The Ubuntu Edge, much like I believe the HTC 1 S, or the iPhone (though not the one, or one x) is designed for usability, not specs. It's the Android phone I want to buy next.
If I were to make a back door, it'd require a custom USB device to do the dump, keeping it harder to detect..
Blizzard (as a super Nintendo developer) was one of the first game companies to make me a fan of said company, as things with their name were generally awesome (Micro Prose too). I spent countless hours playing Rock n Roll racing with my friends, it wasn't the first game I played with that, but it was the first one that for some reason kept us up all night long trying to get better.
I don't even know if there are companies I feel that way about anymore, /MAYBE/ Nintendo, but since I lost my Wii I haven't played any of their stuff.
BioWare maybe?
Sega? as long as it's not Sonic.
There's games I like, and I'm not trying to whine about the good old day, but the days of seeing a name consistently in the flash screen and being able to equate it with quality are done, If there are teams like this still working, they are being buried too deep in the credits, giving the recognition to larger entities that churn lots of crap. It's a shame, I used to be able to look and see a game that was interested, and if the names were right know it was good, now I need to wade through reviews (or if I'm lucky Yahtzee has a critique).
I'm pretty sure (from the summary) it's not about those you speak of.
Also, MOST of those people are the ones on the edge, but not fully into psychopathy.
We are only talking about the ones getting caught, right?
And they are quite likely to get caught again right?
That's how I read the summary at least.
Because we also reward them with jail.
Approaching the level of a psychopath is beneficial, crossing into is not (in general).
The middle class is far different where you are than I am, it is heavily democrat voting here.
The way I see it, the last president with a reasonable fiscal policy was Clinton (working with republicans), and before that was Bush (working with democrats, who took a bullet raising taxes allowing Clinton to work on closing the deficit over two terms). I see little evidence that parties are capable of sane policy working on their own, or that they work together at all anymore, which gives me concern for the long run.
First president bush knew that occupying nations was a bad idea, and spent a lot of time trying to end the practice if assassination as director of the CIA, his son did the opposite (though Obama seems to be a mad scientist thrilled with murder from a distance with his robots, taking things to a new level). Drones are relatively cheap, I wonder what happens when mexico starts applying the same policies as the US to their use, and decides it's easier to strike the drug lords when they spend time in the US. Under current US policy you can send drones into a friendly nation and assassinate people where there will be obvious collateral damage, the targets can be your own citizens that never are presented with a chance of defending alleged actions, and the public given no scrutiny over the evidence (of course this can happen within the US too, even though one would think that the ability to arrest a local would make that the required action).
I'd suspect that even now most of Gitmo isn't terrorists, many were those that opposed warlords (at the start of Afghani operations) that were turned in for a bounty. Rather than admit mistake (the army taking the word of warlords hoping to grab local power in the vacuum once the Taliban was gone), they have been kept, but as they've been branded terrorists, nobody wants them. They are the problem, it's easy enough to detain the actual and obvious combatants, it's fear of letting anyone slip through that we have no evidence one way or the other that poses a problem (because fuvk human rights, we in the US have decided they only apply to Americans (or are extremely limited)).