How easy is it to re-use plastic sheets if they've been torn, stapled, folded, dog-eared, and so on? In the real world things experience wear and tear. In most printers I'm familiar with, the paper path is fairly sensitive to these kinds of irregularities, so unless they are using something more like the bypass tray, I don't think that this printer is going to be all that reliable or fun to deal with.
My stats indicate more visitor use IE6 than Opera (all versions combined) or Safari (all versions combined).
If IE6 is dead, then so are both Opera and Safari.
IE6 is "dead" because it can't render modern pages without great amounts of assistance from a sympathetic web developer.
Safari and Opera might have less markeshare than IE6, but don't have near as many problems rendering modern web pages, and don't put a burden on web developers to make web sites that will work with them. Ergo, they are not dead.
Every once in a while, I forget, and most people associate GIMP or "The GIMP" with Pulp Fiction these days, or worse, they've never seen Pulp Fiction because they would be offended by it, but they still know "The GIMP" through cultural allusions to that character, and thus are offended by any reference to GIMP.
*sigh* I guess I should forget about submitting those "leather face mask with zipper mouth" desktop icons that I've been working on.
I don't even trust myself. It's possible that I could have multiple personalities, some of them malicious. I could have blackouts and not remember having the blackouts. I could be possessed by a demon, or brainwashed, or a super-villain could hit me with a mind control ray.
Fortunately I do not build my own computer systems from scratch. I would hate to have to rely on such systems.
The problems with the Surface are highlighted in the video you provided. "Instead of using one of today's more compact devices to get directions where you're going, why not use a device the size of a small car, to do the same job?"
Right, but we're not talking about Surface's shortcomings for getting directions, we're talking about its suitability as a board game platform.
As far as that goes, I don't generally take board games places with me a whole lot; I play them at home. And I usually play them right on top of a big-ass table. And if the big ass table is already there, then it might as well be a big ass computer-table. Maybe if I went somewhere, I'd take the game with my on a flash drive or SD card, and plug it into the big ass table at my destination.
So, aside from taking it to the park and playing chess like some people do, I think I like Surface. Both have potential as game platforms, but if I had to pick one I'd go with Surface. Because it's larger, and therefore has more surface area to interact with.
They make 13" TVs and 60" TVs, and for the most part I'd rather have a 60" TV, too. But that doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with a 13" TV. Just, most people would rather have a bigger screen.
No... the "big ass table" that apple fans made fun of Microsoft for is the perfect board game platform.
The iPad would maybe make a nice "private" board for keeping player information hidden. But a big ass table would be a lot better for a group to gather around to play a board game.
"Begging the question" is a form of logical fallacy in which a statement or claim is assumed to be true without evidence other than the statement or claim itself. When one begs the question, the initial assumption of a statement is treated as already proven without any logic to show why the statement is true in the first place.
Sure sounds like LeGuin is begging the question to me. That's exactly what the quote from the summary shows her to be doing. Unless the summary didn't bother including the rationale for her argument, I'd say she's begging the question.
But we cannot have free and open dissemination of information and literature unless the use of written material continues to be controlled by those who write it or own legitimate right in it.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say, but it sounds like you're calling environmentalists hypocrites because they live in cities.
"Blue" areas are using more energy due to greater population density. Density results in efficiencies as well as concentration of pollution. It's trading off having areas of high pollution and environmental damage in exchange for keeping a larger part of nature pristine.
Per capita, people in the red areas are using more energy.
The real point of it all isn't necessarily how much energy is being used, but how sustainable that use of energy is -- how renewable is the energy source, and how much environmental impact does using it create.
Correct. For those who've been following this case, Thomas's fine originally was something like $86,000, and this was called outrageous at the time. Had the original fine been $54k I'm sure that would have been called outrageous too. Upon appealing the decision and losing, her penalty was raised up to $2,000,000.
Totally. We're going to need horrible penalties in order to show that they're too harsh so that we can lower them to something approaching reasonable. Let's up the stakes a bit, and begin to advocate for capital punishment for copyright violations, and complain that we'll never get meaningful reform if they always commute the sentence. We need to kill more infringers in order to show that killing them is unjust so that we can get the laws changed so that we won't have to keep killing them.
In other words, isn't diffusing the situation exactly what was called for? Isn't the only complaint left now that it wasn't diffused enough?
You may say, well, if you put all your commands in English, then only English speakers can use your app. Fair enough. But if you put all your commands in some bespoke language spoken by no one, doesn't it follow then no one can use your app?
Designers, pick an existing language used by your target market. Is that real enough?
Good point; I think it would be nice if we did see an "existing" language used by all designers. I think the industry has a lot of "common" or even "universal" icons that ARE an emergent "existing language" like what you're after. Look at the UI for all the major browsers, and you'll see very similar icons in the toolbar. IE, Firefox, Opera, etc. don't each have their own, mutually unintelligible symbol for >.
But you're right that there's less universality than if the UI widget language were made an open library of widgets that anyone can use. There's SOME of that provided by qt, gtk, Windows, etc., but still you have custom graphics needs for your application. This is only natural, if you think about it. I think one reason why some companies would want to do this is that it locks the user into their product. If GUI widgets were universal, then I could switch from PageMaker to Quark to InDesign and not have to learn a new icon language every time. Adobe and Quark want you to have a hard time switching to their competitor, so of course they're not going to go for sharing an open UI iconography. Even if they're not being greedy competitors, there's still the issues of theming your widgets for branding purposes, and of course copyright issues Who's going to build widgets and just release them into the public domain? Who'd pay someone else royalties for the right to use their widget graphics when they can create their own using salaried designers doing royalty-free work-for-hire?.
Another reason is there is a perception that that if you have to stick to standard widgets, you can't innovate. If we all used ANSI UI icons, then how would we convey a new innovative function for MyKillerApp when the idea for that function never existed before and thus can't be found in the ANSI UI widget library?
The other point to make here is that icons are not linguistic. We have arrows, stop signs, houses, and other graphical buttons precisely because they are universal symbols that everyone should be able to figure out. We don't need to localize them, and they take up less space and are more quickly readable than linguistic button labels. So to say that someone needs to learn a "new language" to pick up a new app is not really correct. The pencil tool icon for Paint and Photoshop look similar enough, even though they're not identical bitmaps that I can figure it out.
Seriously, who should be the default search provider, payments or not? If I've got a choice, I'm heading to google, not because of some sort of "I love google" sort of thing, but because they have the best search. If firefox defaults to "Bing!" or "aunt martha's internet search and lemon pies", it won't matter as long as I can set it to Google.
It's the ability to choose that I want to protect, not what the default is.
It would be annoying if they switched to a different default, because that would be one more customization step every time I install Firefox.
Sheldon
It does matter. Sure, you can control your own settings, but the aggregate behavior of the masses who leave their settings at default does have an impact.
If the search engine profits from its users, then the default search engine makes a great deal of difference. If traffic goes down, the search engine has less income, and therefore less capital to re-invest into innovation.
If the search engine decides to skew its search results, a vast majority of users who don't change their default might not ever see whatever it is that the default search engine doesn't want them to see. Imagine if Google censored search engine results according to the whim of some bad government.
If you want to collaborate with anyone else, you'll have to take into account when they do a search, their results page will be different from yours, since you're not using the default.
Anytime you're using a computer that is not your own, you're going to have to deal with the default search engine, which isn't your preferred one. Sure, you can just browse to google and search from their homepage, but it's an extra step.
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How easy is it to re-use plastic sheets if they've been torn, stapled, folded, dog-eared, and so on? In the real world things experience wear and tear. In most printers I'm familiar with, the paper path is fairly sensitive to these kinds of irregularities, so unless they are using something more like the bypass tray, I don't think that this printer is going to be all that reliable or fun to deal with.
My stats indicate more visitor use IE6 than Opera (all versions combined) or Safari (all versions combined).
If IE6 is dead, then so are both Opera and Safari.
IE6 is "dead" because it can't render modern pages without great amounts of assistance from a sympathetic web developer.
Safari and Opera might have less markeshare than IE6, but don't have near as many problems rendering modern web pages, and don't put a burden on web developers to make web sites that will work with them. Ergo, they are not dead.
Every once in a while, I forget, and most people associate GIMP or "The GIMP" with Pulp Fiction these days, or worse, they've never seen Pulp Fiction because they would be offended by it, but they still know "The GIMP" through cultural allusions to that character, and thus are offended by any reference to GIMP.
*sigh* I guess I should forget about submitting those "leather face mask with zipper mouth" desktop icons that I've been working on.
And Mac OS X.
We know.
I don't even trust myself. It's possible that I could have multiple personalities, some of them malicious. I could have blackouts and not remember having the blackouts. I could be possessed by a demon, or brainwashed, or a super-villain could hit me with a mind control ray.
Fortunately I do not build my own computer systems from scratch. I would hate to have to rely on such systems.
Not all Chinese-made products contain Chinese computer code.
I am a consultant to a US company. Our products are made by Chinese companies, to our specifications.
How do you know? Perhaps they look at your specifications, alter them without telling you, and then make the product.
I figured that out all on my own in my mid twenties. Seems like it was just yesterday.
I thought insensitive clod came from Mad Magazine.
No more out of range problems while I'm in my mom's basement.
Since it's the coolest known, if Fonzie doesn't already have a sub-stellar body named after him, this one should be it.
The problems with the Surface are highlighted in the video you provided. "Instead of using one of today's more compact devices to get directions where you're going, why not use a device the size of a small car, to do the same job?"
Right, but we're not talking about Surface's shortcomings for getting directions, we're talking about its suitability as a board game platform.
As far as that goes, I don't generally take board games places with me a whole lot; I play them at home. And I usually play them right on top of a big-ass table. And if the big ass table is already there, then it might as well be a big ass computer-table. Maybe if I went somewhere, I'd take the game with my on a flash drive or SD card, and plug it into the big ass table at my destination.
So, aside from taking it to the park and playing chess like some people do, I think I like Surface. Both have potential as game platforms, but if I had to pick one I'd go with Surface. Because it's larger, and therefore has more surface area to interact with.
They make 13" TVs and 60" TVs, and for the most part I'd rather have a 60" TV, too. But that doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with a 13" TV. Just, most people would rather have a bigger screen.
No... the "big ass table" that apple fans made fun of Microsoft for is the perfect board game platform.
The iPad would maybe make a nice "private" board for keeping player information hidden. But a big ass table would be a lot better for a group to gather around to play a board game.
No, it was a bug... like the kind the FBI plans when they're trying to spy on suspected criminals.
From the site you linked to:
Sure sounds like LeGuin is begging the question to me. That's exactly what the quote from the summary shows her to be doing. Unless the summary didn't bother including the rationale for her argument, I'd say she's begging the question.
Why not?
I'm not sure what you're trying to say, but it sounds like you're calling environmentalists hypocrites because they live in cities.
"Blue" areas are using more energy due to greater population density. Density results in efficiencies as well as concentration of pollution. It's trading off having areas of high pollution and environmental damage in exchange for keeping a larger part of nature pristine.
Per capita, people in the red areas are using more energy.
The real point of it all isn't necessarily how much energy is being used, but how sustainable that use of energy is -- how renewable is the energy source, and how much environmental impact does using it create.
Correct. For those who've been following this case, Thomas's fine originally was something like $86,000, and this was called outrageous at the time. Had the original fine been $54k I'm sure that would have been called outrageous too. Upon appealing the decision and losing, her penalty was raised up to $2,000,000.
Totally. We're going to need horrible penalties in order to show that they're too harsh so that we can lower them to something approaching reasonable. Let's up the stakes a bit, and begin to advocate for capital punishment for copyright violations, and complain that we'll never get meaningful reform if they always commute the sentence. We need to kill more infringers in order to show that killing them is unjust so that we can get the laws changed so that we won't have to keep killing them.
In other words, isn't diffusing the situation exactly what was called for? Isn't the only complaint left now that it wasn't diffused enough?
You may say, well, if you put all your commands in English, then only English speakers can use your app. Fair enough. But if you put all your commands in some bespoke language spoken by no one, doesn't it follow then no one can use your app?
Designers, pick an existing language used by your target market. Is that real enough?
Good point; I think it would be nice if we did see an "existing" language used by all designers. I think the industry has a lot of "common" or even "universal" icons that ARE an emergent "existing language" like what you're after. Look at the UI for all the major browsers, and you'll see very similar icons in the toolbar. IE, Firefox, Opera, etc. don't each have their own, mutually unintelligible symbol for >.
But you're right that there's less universality than if the UI widget language were made an open library of widgets that anyone can use. There's SOME of that provided by qt, gtk, Windows, etc., but still you have custom graphics needs for your application. This is only natural, if you think about it. I think one reason why some companies would want to do this is that it locks the user into their product. If GUI widgets were universal, then I could switch from PageMaker to Quark to InDesign and not have to learn a new icon language every time. Adobe and Quark want you to have a hard time switching to their competitor, so of course they're not going to go for sharing an open UI iconography. Even if they're not being greedy competitors, there's still the issues of theming your widgets for branding purposes, and of course copyright issues Who's going to build widgets and just release them into the public domain? Who'd pay someone else royalties for the right to use their widget graphics when they can create their own using salaried designers doing royalty-free work-for-hire?.
Another reason is there is a perception that that if you have to stick to standard widgets, you can't innovate. If we all used ANSI UI icons, then how would we convey a new innovative function for MyKillerApp when the idea for that function never existed before and thus can't be found in the ANSI UI widget library?
The other point to make here is that icons are not linguistic. We have arrows, stop signs, houses, and other graphical buttons precisely because they are universal symbols that everyone should be able to figure out. We don't need to localize them, and they take up less space and are more quickly readable than linguistic button labels. So to say that someone needs to learn a "new language" to pick up a new app is not really correct. The pencil tool icon for Paint and Photoshop look similar enough, even though they're not identical bitmaps that I can figure it out.
you owe me 11 replacement dolphins
Why not just make 10 replacement dolphins larger?
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By a massive coincidence, these happen to be the passwords for their respective /. userids!
I use same combination on my luggage!
Junior J. Junior III announced today that he intends to stop reading content from the New York Times in 2011.
Seriously, who should be the default search provider, payments or not? If I've got a choice, I'm heading to google, not because of some sort of "I love google" sort of thing, but because they have the best search. If firefox defaults to "Bing!" or "aunt martha's internet search and lemon pies", it won't matter as long as I can set it to Google.
It's the ability to choose that I want to protect, not what the default is.
It would be annoying if they switched to a different default, because that would be one more customization step every time I install Firefox.
Sheldon
It does matter. Sure, you can control your own settings, but the aggregate behavior of the masses who leave their settings at default does have an impact.
I only hope that you code better than you spell.