If there aren't enough people to pay for it voluntarily, then it does not need to be built at all.
People only voluntarily pay for something they see direct and personal benefits to. If we relied on that there would be no infrastructure. You wouldn't have a phone line in your house much less running past it because people also don't like sharing something someone else paid for. You wouldn't get any roads at all since the obscene cost of them wouldn't make sense. You and all your neighbours would never agree where to build them to and who should pay how much. There's a reason we don't rely on people to fund their own infrastructure, and that is before you consider the chicken and egg scenario (do people not ride bikes because there are no cycleways or are there no cycle ways because people don't ride bikes?
There's practical examples for those petrol heads who don't understand this topic in the car world too. Toll roads are a classic. A tunnel gets built in a direction that *YOU* don't travel in. So what you do is campaign against it "don't steal my dollar y'all" so it ends up turning into a toll road to pay for itself. Like most toll roads the first few weeks are free. *You* probably wonder what happened on your way to work those few weeks when you see less traffic on the road. But then suddenly the traffic levels are back to normal as people don't want to pay the money to take a toll road.
The best part is you will then sit in traffic listening to a radio host talk about the failed unused tunnel and then give yourself a high five as you shout "I told you so" at the radio to overcome your frustrations of being stuck in the traffic. Congratulations. You saved your dollar.
Simple, eh?
The only thing simple here is your ability to think.
This is an utterly stupid way of building general use infrastructure right up there with toll roads. I know people love the idea of why should I pay for someone else benefit, without realising that they directly benefit as others do.
A cyclist on a cycle path is a car not contributing to the traffic jam I'm stuck in. Same with toll roads. When 80000 cars drive through a toll road it means 80000 less cars in the way of the people who don't pay the toll.
There's a reason infrastructure is built from pooled taxes. The user pays system is a great way to achieve very little.
Best I can see the only people who contributed to the "asshole factor" was the media. For all the name calling the only people actually acting like asshole were the ones without Google glass.
A factory is bigger than your toy. Just because you work with one piece of equipment doesn't mean that it doesn't make sense in a factory especially where the equipment is interconnected as part of a larger system. Plant context is something every industry is working towards.
EKG is diagnostics. Artificial sweeteners are also used preventatively. I see a culture around them without relation to obesity. E.g. North Germans will find aspartame on every restaurant table, the Dutch will look at you with a confused expression when you ask for it. Southern Europe and SE Asia generally give you what you ordered the first time round, the USA and parts of Eastern Europe you'll get confirmations if you want diet, zero, out whatever the latest coke trend is.
There's an element of confounding by indication, but it's no where near as bad as you think.
What makes you say the quality of life isn't affected much? The number of whales retiring mobility assistance certainly would indicate otherwise. So would the ability to walk up the stairs without taking a break, or paying with you kids in the park.
I was overweight (no where near obese) and by shedding just 30lb my life has improved incredibly. How did I do that? I indulged in delicious and good food rather than shoveling shit into my face. I actually got a new love for food as a wonderful experience rather than something that temporarily suppresses hunger in the process.
So what you're saying is: User refuses to learn in which menu the items are. That's not the ribbon's fault. Nothing moves around in the ribbon, the options remain in the same logical place.
What has that got to do with Tesla? If your car was made this decade you have a black box already recording the final moments leading up to your accident. There hasn't been a proper he-said she-said situation for quite a long time.
The name "Autopilot" (while great) implies that nothing needs to be done by the driver
I think it's time we use a bit of common sense to tell people what "autopilot" actually means. A simple question would do: Would you fly on a plane right now without a pilot? I'm willing to bet 100% of people will answer no because autopilot isn't good enough for that.
Level 4 or Level 5 would be well above what we expect any autopilot system for an aircraft to be capable of, so why should we redefine it for cars?
Ha that's a laugh coming from you. You still owe me $2500. Why haven't you paid me yet. I already told you that you owe it to me. Stop trying to find a loophole out of your "legitimate obligations".
There's nothing misleading about it. Association is correlation. There's nothing in the headline saying it causes it, just that the two are linked.
The study itself is also not useless even if the link is the result of behaviour as it shows a measurable way of identifying people's destructive behaviours. There's also a question of justification in the behaviour, e.g. weight gain caused by increased unhealthiness due to the incorrect justification that since sugar is now cut out of me coffee I can eat another slice of cake.
Hello traveler and welcome to 2010. A lot has changed in the 30 years since you were in a coma. It's not all going to be good. For instance: - The UK is leaving the EU. Yeah surprise I know they just joined when you were last awake. - The depression everyone is talking about is not the great depression but a more recent one. - An internet (this giant network of computers (things that do work for people) ) search engine is sucking up the world's data and selling it to advertisers. - Donald Trump is president of the USA. - The worlds most valuable company sells overpriced mobile phones and people happily queue to buy them. - No really! Donald Trump, THE Donald Trump is president.
But it's not all bad. One of the good things is the Energy Payback Period for manufactured solar cells has dropped from 40 years to less than half a year. Probably even lower now as this article is already 7 years old http://www.clca.columbia.edu/2....
Anyway if you don't like that article you can use that search engine thing I was talking about (it's called Google BTW (that's how the cool kids say "By The Way" these days) ) to search that internet thing I was talking about for more references about how wrong and outdated your views are.
Oh and for a brief period the best rapper was a white person. But don't worry it went back to... normal.
The problem is that Microsoft doesn't give a shit about your "user experience".
This is a good thing. Last time they cared about "user experience" they enlisted experts and those experts. The experts analysed and played, prepared presentations, backed them up by math and WHAM!... Metro.
assertion that win10 insiders program fragments UX while imposing beta testing onto users
This one confuses me. MS aren't imposing anything when a user signs up 100% voluntarily to the Insider program, one which isn't even advertised anywhere in the OS itself. My dad isn't accidentally going to end up on the fast ring. There's just no option for it. In fact being on the insider program would be a royal PITA, and they make up a tiny portion of the user base.
I'm not sure what they are whinging about. Maybe they would prefer no real world beta testing? Yeah that sounds like a GREAT idea, *rolleyes*. MS can't even get the environments they 100% control (Surface hardware) to work reliably. Less beta testing would be a disaster.
They've messed up the taskbar by conflating launcher icons with running instances of applications. The "ribbon" crap has added nothing while creating bizarre and unintuitive behavior and unnecessary programming complexity.
I agree with almost everything you said except for this. The modified taskbar was awesome. Frankly you're the first person I heard bad mouth it since the "OMG Change! Bad!" period 2 months after Vista was released.
Not quite so much with the ribbon, but to say it added nothing is just silly on the face of it. 99% of the most used options are now several fewer clicks to get to, and the context sensitive system hides a lot of the irrelevant menus that would be greyed out and add nothing of value in the previous display scheme. Microsoft's own telemetry and research has shown that users are in general faster using the OS by mouse, and it is far easier to learn for new users. There's a reason the style is adopted by the wider industry beyond change for change's sake, and it's not because programming complexity is good.
Power users have a learning curve. Good. Maybe you'll actually remember what it is like to use a new piece of software for a change and think of users while programming in the future.
Is should have been more clear: The userbase itself is quite healthy. There's been 33000 downloads this month to date. While the general trend is declining, so are the rates of Windows 10 adoptions and OS installs. It doesn't seem like a jump the sinking ship kind of response.
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If there aren't enough people to pay for it voluntarily, then it does not need to be built at all.
People only voluntarily pay for something they see direct and personal benefits to. If we relied on that there would be no infrastructure. You wouldn't have a phone line in your house much less running past it because people also don't like sharing something someone else paid for. You wouldn't get any roads at all since the obscene cost of them wouldn't make sense. You and all your neighbours would never agree where to build them to and who should pay how much. There's a reason we don't rely on people to fund their own infrastructure, and that is before you consider the chicken and egg scenario (do people not ride bikes because there are no cycleways or are there no cycle ways because people don't ride bikes?
There's practical examples for those petrol heads who don't understand this topic in the car world too. Toll roads are a classic. A tunnel gets built in a direction that *YOU* don't travel in. So what you do is campaign against it "don't steal my dollar y'all" so it ends up turning into a toll road to pay for itself. Like most toll roads the first few weeks are free. *You* probably wonder what happened on your way to work those few weeks when you see less traffic on the road. But then suddenly the traffic levels are back to normal as people don't want to pay the money to take a toll road.
The best part is you will then sit in traffic listening to a radio host talk about the failed unused tunnel and then give yourself a high five as you shout "I told you so" at the radio to overcome your frustrations of being stuck in the traffic. Congratulations. You saved your dollar.
Simple, eh?
The only thing simple here is your ability to think.
This is an utterly stupid way of building general use infrastructure right up there with toll roads. I know people love the idea of why should I pay for someone else benefit, without realising that they directly benefit as others do.
A cyclist on a cycle path is a car not contributing to the traffic jam I'm stuck in. Same with toll roads. When 80000 cars drive through a toll road it means 80000 less cars in the way of the people who don't pay the toll.
There's a reason infrastructure is built from pooled taxes. The user pays system is a great way to achieve very little.
I for one look forward to no longer having issues pairing 1-1 with a device.
Not sure if issues pairing with multiple devices at once will be an improvement, but at least I won't have issues pairing 1-1 anymore.
Best I can see the only people who contributed to the "asshole factor" was the media. For all the name calling the only people actually acting like asshole were the ones without Google glass.
A factory is bigger than your toy. Just because you work with one piece of equipment doesn't mean that it doesn't make sense in a factory especially where the equipment is interconnected as part of a larger system. Plant context is something every industry is working towards.
EKG is diagnostics. Artificial sweeteners are also used preventatively. I see a culture around them without relation to obesity. E.g. North Germans will find aspartame on every restaurant table, the Dutch will look at you with a confused expression when you ask for it. Southern Europe and SE Asia generally give you what you ordered the first time round, the USA and parts of Eastern Europe you'll get confirmations if you want diet, zero, out whatever the latest coke trend is.
There's an element of confounding by indication, but it's no where near as bad as you think.
What makes you say the quality of life isn't affected much? The number of whales retiring mobility assistance certainly would indicate otherwise. So would the ability to walk up the stairs without taking a break, or paying with you kids in the park.
I was overweight (no where near obese) and by shedding just 30lb my life has improved incredibly. How did I do that? I indulged in delicious and good food rather than shoveling shit into my face. I actually got a new love for food as a wonderful experience rather than something that temporarily suppresses hunger in the process.
that leave me switching randomly between ribbons
So what you're saying is: User refuses to learn in which menu the items are. That's not the ribbon's fault. Nothing moves around in the ribbon, the options remain in the same logical place.
What anyone says in the hours after an accident should never be considered accurate or even news.
No what it is called is "Breaking news". You heard it here first! Accuracy doesn't come into news and hasn't for a long time.
You've been driving this road for decades, so you know it's a long yellow light. You don't brake
So you breached the road rules by not stopping since it was safe to do so.
Now imagine if the lawyer subpoenas your previous tesla logs?
Why Tesla? Cars have had black boxes for the best part of a decade.
What has that got to do with Tesla? If your car was made this decade you have a black box already recording the final moments leading up to your accident. There hasn't been a proper he-said she-said situation for quite a long time.
The name "Autopilot" (while great) implies that nothing needs to be done by the driver
I think it's time we use a bit of common sense to tell people what "autopilot" actually means. A simple question would do: Would you fly on a plane right now without a pilot? I'm willing to bet 100% of people will answer no because autopilot isn't good enough for that.
Level 4 or Level 5 would be well above what we expect any autopilot system for an aircraft to be capable of, so why should we redefine it for cars?
legitimate obligations
Ha that's a laugh coming from you. You still owe me $2500. Why haven't you paid me yet. I already told you that you owe it to me. Stop trying to find a loophole out of your "legitimate obligations".
There's nothing misleading about it. Association is correlation. There's nothing in the headline saying it causes it, just that the two are linked.
The study itself is also not useless even if the link is the result of behaviour as it shows a measurable way of identifying people's destructive behaviours. There's also a question of justification in the behaviour, e.g. weight gain caused by increased unhealthiness due to the incorrect justification that since sugar is now cut out of me coffee I can eat another slice of cake.
Hello traveler and welcome to 2010. A lot has changed in the 30 years since you were in a coma. It's not all going to be good. For instance:
- The UK is leaving the EU. Yeah surprise I know they just joined when you were last awake.
- The depression everyone is talking about is not the great depression but a more recent one.
- An internet (this giant network of computers (things that do work for people) ) search engine is sucking up the world's data and selling it to advertisers.
- Donald Trump is president of the USA.
- The worlds most valuable company sells overpriced mobile phones and people happily queue to buy them.
- No really! Donald Trump, THE Donald Trump is president.
But it's not all bad. One of the good things is the Energy Payback Period for manufactured solar cells has dropped from 40 years to less than half a year. Probably even lower now as this article is already 7 years old http://www.clca.columbia.edu/2....
Anyway if you don't like that article you can use that search engine thing I was talking about (it's called Google BTW (that's how the cool kids say "By The Way" these days) ) to search that internet thing I was talking about for more references about how wrong and outdated your views are.
Oh and for a brief period the best rapper was a white person. But don't worry it went back to ... normal.
While I don't disagree with you, that link is entirely garbage.
Pick a different one. They all say something similar. http://www.clca.columbia.edu/2...
The GP's assertion is something from back in the 80s.
I'd want to hope you get a bulk discount.
You missed a step inbetween. There is already a ban on a lot of extreme pornographic content even if it is occurring between two consenting adults.
Up next: UK Internet to be separated from the "pool of filth" that the worldwide Internet is.
Not entirely sure what you mean with "Up next". Story from May 20th
What will Zuckerberg do with all that information when he is getting desperate?
I'm trying to imagine what he would do that he's not already doing.
The problem is that Microsoft doesn't give a shit about your "user experience".
This is a good thing. Last time they cared about "user experience" they enlisted experts and those experts. The experts analysed and played, prepared presentations, backed them up by math and WHAM! ... Metro.
assertion that win10 insiders program fragments UX while imposing beta testing onto users
This one confuses me. MS aren't imposing anything when a user signs up 100% voluntarily to the Insider program, one which isn't even advertised anywhere in the OS itself. My dad isn't accidentally going to end up on the fast ring. There's just no option for it. In fact being on the insider program would be a royal PITA, and they make up a tiny portion of the user base.
I'm not sure what they are whinging about. Maybe they would prefer no real world beta testing? Yeah that sounds like a GREAT idea, *rolleyes*. MS can't even get the environments they 100% control (Surface hardware) to work reliably. Less beta testing would be a disaster.
They've messed up the taskbar by conflating launcher icons with running instances of applications. The "ribbon" crap has added nothing while creating bizarre and unintuitive behavior and unnecessary programming complexity.
I agree with almost everything you said except for this. The modified taskbar was awesome. Frankly you're the first person I heard bad mouth it since the "OMG Change! Bad!" period 2 months after Vista was released.
Not quite so much with the ribbon, but to say it added nothing is just silly on the face of it. 99% of the most used options are now several fewer clicks to get to, and the context sensitive system hides a lot of the irrelevant menus that would be greyed out and add nothing of value in the previous display scheme. Microsoft's own telemetry and research has shown that users are in general faster using the OS by mouse, and it is far easier to learn for new users. There's a reason the style is adopted by the wider industry beyond change for change's sake, and it's not because programming complexity is good.
Power users have a learning curve. Good. Maybe you'll actually remember what it is like to use a new piece of software for a change and think of users while programming in the future.
Is should have been more clear: The userbase itself is quite healthy. There's been 33000 downloads this month to date. While the general trend is declining, so are the rates of Windows 10 adoptions and OS installs. It doesn't seem like a jump the sinking ship kind of response.
Will only be worth $3.5million in 2 weeks anyway the way these currencies are going.