Heh. I'm one of those notebook enthusiasts. I use fountain pens on notebooks in a customized zippered case, plus an index book. My wife is a research scientist and uses lab notebooks. We both enjoy sniffing around office supply stores and both carry small notebooks on us at all times.
I was looking for a brand name to see if there was something new to poke at. Thanks for the lineup, and I'll agree with pretty much most of what you said (I could get into hyper details, but not in a casual thread like this).
Just in case somebody else is reading this thread, you left off the Leuchtturm1917 series of notebooks, which are similar, but a touch nicer than the Moleskine brand moleskines.
Now as for pens... *that's* a crazy group of enthusiasts. They buy the really expensive stuff. Seldom do we notebook hounds go after anything over $100.
The Galaxy Note has a 5.3" screen, according to the specs. Unless there's some other one that I don't know about?
Galaxy Note is a series of devices, all of which use stylus input. You linked to the phone, which is the smallest device in the line (barring the Gear watch, which is often marketed as a companion device to the Galaxy line). Devices in the Note line are also available as 8 inch and 10 inch tablets (Wikipedia, Samsung).
I'm interested mostly because I used to use a Palm, and I like stylus devices. Incidentally, the Note 3 phone has a screen almost identical to an index card, which is nice (if you use 3x5 cards for notes). I asked about your size preference because I would like a roughly A4/US Letter sized tablet, but they don't seem to be readily available currently. If you're like me and looking for even larger than 10 inches, I will also point out that Samsung is rumored to be announcing a 12.3 inch Galaxy Note within days (article).
Thanks. I was hoping you would turn me on to a specific brand to watch out for. I already use them, as does my wife (she's a research chemist). Years ago I used to use composition books, and between the two I have a shelf of them that I've filled over the years. Plus boxes and expanding folders full of index cards for projects where they work as tools.
The Galaxy Note is not only also proprietary, but the screen is way too small.
Alas, most tablets don't come with screens larger than ten inches, so topping out with a 10.1 inch screen, it's pretty standard. Exactly how much larger are you looking for?
If someone makes an unsubstantiated claim, it is their responsibility to do the research and post the citation, not the 100,000 people reading the remark.
Or else...?
I'm pretty damn sure there's a fairly wide history of casual conversation not requiring footnotes. You know, among human beings. Also, primary research, opinions and soapbox ranting is perfectly fine in the real world. We're not living la vida Wikipedia and trying to write an encyclopedia here. We're nattering on about interesting, ephemeral topics.
I'll bet you're a blast at parties. "Hey, this is a pretty good beer." "Not NPOV! Citation needed!" Actually, having one guy become apoplectic in that manner at a party would be kind of fun to watch.
You're absolutely correct in the right context: my wife publishing a journal article has to provide citations. But Slashdot is not a academic journal, and is much closer to a bunch of people on a porch with a six pack. Social context: important!
Anything related to climate change is labeled "political" by the large well funded anti-science, pro climate science denial lobbies.
Having not seen it, I can't really be certain, but it would appear from other comments that have not been disputed that part of the movie mocks politicians. That would generally be considered political. It is said to include footage of "Stephen Colbert making fun of the NC legislators", which would seem, as it is a clip from a political comedy show, a fairly clear cut case of it being political.
Just because there are global warming documentaries that are falsely accused of being political does not mean that no movie about the subject can ever be made that is not political.
Of course, not having seen it, it could also be legitimate commentary on the news coverage. Or even a anti-global warming movie mocking Steven Colbert's style as typifying coverage. I have no idea -- and am comfortable saying that I don't know. But it is silly to say that no movie on the subject can be political in nature just because some are falsely accused, and from the clips that have been discussed, it does seem to, at least in part, lean toward that more political side of things.
I'm not taking a position here: I don't have a firm opinion. However, I will point out that audio recording is not obvious, and cell phones can not only do that, they can also easily send exactly what is being said to somebody in real time by simply calling them and then sliding your phone into your shirt pocket (mine, by the way, also has the camera peeking over the pocket, so I could record video as well. I tested it once, and have had zero reason to do so since.)
So, audio recording is not obvious already. Yet people speak freely, even when somebody casually lays a phone down on the table in between everybody.
Or if leave a review of something on Google Places.
Seriously: this is simply putting your review of a topic next to the ad for that topic. You know... that review (even if it is just a +1) that you made public, on the internet? I would think that posting something public already qualifies as an opt-in. They are simply indexing the information you put out into the public differently.
They've been putting the same information next to search results since the beginning of +1 and Google Places. Indexing and cross connecting public information is what Google *does*. And they are doing it here, and allowing you to opt-out of this new cross-connection. I'm not sure how this is slimy. It's like quoting something somebody wrote about a topic in a newspaper article: they put it out there, and now that public statement is being used, with full attribution, in conjunction with the appropriate topic.
That is more of a classic. I also habitually tpyo and make spalling and grammaticals errors. My use of spalling dates to 110 baud BBSes in the 1980s. I'm pretty sure saying people were being pendantic is something I picked up from usenet and I now use regularly in edit and commit comments. Of course, it assumes an audience who gets it, much like CDO (compulsively alphabetizing things).
I have an easier idea—why not just get rid of first posts? Most of the trouble stems from those. The rule would be simple; if a news article has zero comments on it, no one is allowed to post until it has more.
Actually, that isn't a terrible idea (yes, I get your joke). A more serious implementation would have the comments be invisible for the first hour. People can post them, but only people with moderation points can see them and moderate them. Thus the initial set of visible comments starts off pre-moderated, and presumably sorted by their score. People can game the system -- by putting in high quality replies directed only at the article (or editor/author/summary -- this *is* Slashdot), which is not a bad thing at all.
I would say that games like Trauma and (I believe, as it hasn't actually come out yet) The Witness tap a similar vein from the player perspective.
As I don't often play video games, I would imagine that others could find plenty of other examples that fit. Of course, then I fear (this being Slashdot) you would have to deal with pendants who ignore subjective "feels like" perspectives... which are actually relevant in this case, as we are dealing with art. Still, there are spiritual successors out there that do comprise part of the legacy.
No doubt you've heard of, "singing for one's supper"? At one time that was quite literally true and even today there are probably people who wouldn't mind doing that provided that the performance was agreeable to the owner and the other patrons and the payment in beer and food was good.
Last Saturday evening I watched that happen in a Nashville truck stop. The guy was really good, the patrons generally really enjoyed it, and the guy got a meal.
Yes. That's what that means. It applies to all people equally: people tend to tout their good news more than their bad news. You are repeating my point.
This isn't meant to sound cruel but I've personally never met anyone that was so unfit they could not exercise or change their diet in some way that would help.
You are young and healthy and have never met anybody who was dealt a bad hand genetically or suffered a crippling accident or infection. Get north of 50 after a life of minor accidents, or hang out with young people who have two pacemakers, biweekly seizures and a heart that leaks blood when it beats, and you'll find that not everybody is physically capable of what you envision everybody as able to do. Sometimes it is as simple as a quick infection of the pericardium and heart as a young child. Other times it is something work related like the other car driving into a ditch atop your ATV while you were both pursuing a suspect in the dark. It can even be their fault: I've known people thrown out of the back of pickup trucks who live with a solid brace bolted into their spinal column. It doesn't matter: it is their reality, and they have to deal with what they can do. Eating well, exercising in the pool, doing exactly what their doctors tell them to, but still unable to really be fit.
These are the people who need help beyond mere "exercise and a change in their diet". There are people living beyond your sphere of experience who can benefit greatly from things like this.
Presumably you mean aside from the fact that we haven't seen any sign of the high energy signatures that would surely happen from annihilation collisions when the solar wind meets this interstellar anti-matter.
If you're going to question facts within fictional works, I'd start out by with the point that we didn't actually discover warp theory with the help of four thumbed aliens from Alpha Centari. After that, the properties of interstellar gas seems fairly minor.
To be clear, let me restate: I haven't seen anything directly contradicting the "interstellar hydrogen is mostly antimatter" idea within any canon work of the fictional Star Trek setting invented for television and expanded in books and films by authors who are paid to invent stories for entertainment. This statement does not imply that I believe or have proposed any sort of belief that the vaguely defined warp drive, humanoid aliens, Q Continuum, transporters, tribbles, or an English actor playing a French captain are actually realistic nor exist in the real world. Well, the bit about the actor is technically true, but otherwise, it isn't real.
Dealing with particles via magnetic field was actually the job of the Bussard Collectors (you know, those red glowing things at the front of the nacelles), a.k.a., ramscoops. Which actually didn't deflect it, but collected all that mostly hydrogen in the ship's path.
For a fairly long time, in the gap between TOS and TNG, when the books were adding to and fleshing out the universe, there was the idea that the vast majority of interstellar hydrogen is antimatter (discovered by Voyager 6 or something like that, when it transmitted back what it found and was promptly annihilated). That was the key thing that allows for travel without having to carry around a ton of reaction mass. Then add dilithium crystals, which were discovered to have a very powerful resonance effect near a matter-antimatter reaction. The discovery was an lab-bench accident, similar to the discovery of X-Rays. Of course, this is back when first contact was between Earth and Alpha Centari, and the Alpha Centariuns (who look like humans, only a bit more stocky and a second opposable thumb instead of a pinky) worked with Earthlings together to discover warp theory. TNG and later canon continuity wiped out most of that, but I haven't seen anything that directly contradicted the "interstellar hydrogen is mostly antimatter" idea.
Have you tried pairing a different controller? I mean, it's one kind of fiasco if they shipped with a bad controller. That can be fixed in future versions, or by the user (with a purchase, which stinks, but hey: bleeding edge is aptly named). If it is the OS that causes the latency, they may be able to fix it. So, option two is bad, but still salvageable. If they shipped hardware that causes serious latency in basic games, then it's pretty dead.
5) What's the deal with CableCard, anyway? Are cable companies going to continue to support this? What about users of IP-based services, like AT&T's U-verse?
I had to talk to AT&T recently, and they pitched U-Verse, and I gave my usual, "Oh, I have several TiVos, so I can't use your service." The guy said they now support TiVo. Could have been a idiotic sales pitch, and Google isn't helpful (years of comments that it doesn't support it overwhelm the results), but if it's important to you, might as well call and ask.
users who say that you haven't taken anything from anyone when they copy bits, and then someone come along and copy bits they care about and the tune change.
And many don't, which you've acknowledged. So, how is this different from any number of other hypocrisies that human beings regularly commit in all areas of life? What you're describing has had entire books written on it that have nothing to do with tech or IP rights or law. What you're saying, essentially, is that Slashdot commentators are a fairly typical swath of human beings.
This is still a bad example, as it is an issue of credit for work done, not copying, as the person who did the work doesn't own it nor claim to have any right to it. It is a simple case of wanting credit for the work he or she did.
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Heh. I'm one of those notebook enthusiasts. I use fountain pens on notebooks in a customized zippered case, plus an index book. My wife is a research scientist and uses lab notebooks. We both enjoy sniffing around office supply stores and both carry small notebooks on us at all times.
I was looking for a brand name to see if there was something new to poke at. Thanks for the lineup, and I'll agree with pretty much most of what you said (I could get into hyper details, but not in a casual thread like this).
Just in case somebody else is reading this thread, you left off the Leuchtturm1917 series of notebooks, which are similar, but a touch nicer than the Moleskine brand moleskines.
Now as for pens... *that's* a crazy group of enthusiasts. They buy the really expensive stuff. Seldom do we notebook hounds go after anything over $100.
The Galaxy Note has a 5.3" screen, according to the specs. Unless there's some other one that I don't know about?
Galaxy Note is a series of devices, all of which use stylus input. You linked to the phone, which is the smallest device in the line (barring the Gear watch, which is often marketed as a companion device to the Galaxy line). Devices in the Note line are also available as 8 inch and 10 inch tablets (Wikipedia, Samsung).
I'm interested mostly because I used to use a Palm, and I like stylus devices. Incidentally, the Note 3 phone has a screen almost identical to an index card, which is nice (if you use 3x5 cards for notes). I asked about your size preference because I would like a roughly A4/US Letter sized tablet, but they don't seem to be readily available currently. If you're like me and looking for even larger than 10 inches, I will also point out that Samsung is rumored to be announcing a 12.3 inch Galaxy Note within days (article).
Thanks. I was hoping you would turn me on to a specific brand to watch out for. I already use them, as does my wife (she's a research chemist). Years ago I used to use composition books, and between the two I have a shelf of them that I've filled over the years. Plus boxes and expanding folders full of index cards for projects where they work as tools.
The Galaxy Note is not only also proprietary, but the screen is way too small.
Alas, most tablets don't come with screens larger than ten inches, so topping out with a 10.1 inch screen, it's pretty standard. Exactly how much larger are you looking for?
Me, I still use the same black lab-books for persistent note-taking I've been using for 20 years.
You know, if you've found something great, a bit of specific information would help share that. Brand? Supplier? Buler?
If someone makes an unsubstantiated claim, it is their responsibility to do the research and post the citation, not the 100,000 people reading the remark.
Or else...?
I'm pretty damn sure there's a fairly wide history of casual conversation not requiring footnotes. You know, among human beings. Also, primary research, opinions and soapbox ranting is perfectly fine in the real world. We're not living la vida Wikipedia and trying to write an encyclopedia here. We're nattering on about interesting, ephemeral topics.
I'll bet you're a blast at parties. "Hey, this is a pretty good beer." "Not NPOV! Citation needed!" Actually, having one guy become apoplectic in that manner at a party would be kind of fun to watch.
You're absolutely correct in the right context: my wife publishing a journal article has to provide citations. But Slashdot is not a academic journal, and is much closer to a bunch of people on a porch with a six pack. Social context: important!
It turned out to be "The Year of the Linux Smartphone", and it happened already. Also DVR and similar devices.
Anything related to climate change is labeled "political" by the large well funded anti-science, pro climate science denial lobbies.
Having not seen it, I can't really be certain, but it would appear from other comments that have not been disputed that part of the movie mocks politicians. That would generally be considered political. It is said to include footage of "Stephen Colbert making fun of the NC legislators", which would seem, as it is a clip from a political comedy show, a fairly clear cut case of it being political.
Just because there are global warming documentaries that are falsely accused of being political does not mean that no movie about the subject can ever be made that is not political.
Of course, not having seen it, it could also be legitimate commentary on the news coverage. Or even a anti-global warming movie mocking Steven Colbert's style as typifying coverage. I have no idea -- and am comfortable saying that I don't know. But it is silly to say that no movie on the subject can be political in nature just because some are falsely accused, and from the clips that have been discussed, it does seem to, at least in part, lean toward that more political side of things.
Posted anonymously because pedants aren't appreciated.
I'll state publicly, under my account, that I appreciate pendents.
Really? Asking for somebody to demonstrate a wild claim results in your turning it around and demanding proof that it isn't true?
Okay, I'll say that it is objectively true that there is life on Mars.
No, no... I don't have to *defend* that statement. The onus is on *you*, Buckaroo, to demonstrate there *isn't* life on Mars.
Wow, this makes putting out claims much easier. Thank you for your logic, AC.
I'm not taking a position here: I don't have a firm opinion. However, I will point out that audio recording is not obvious, and cell phones can not only do that, they can also easily send exactly what is being said to somebody in real time by simply calling them and then sliding your phone into your shirt pocket (mine, by the way, also has the camera peeking over the pocket, so I could record video as well. I tested it once, and have had zero reason to do so since.)
So, audio recording is not obvious already. Yet people speak freely, even when somebody casually lays a phone down on the table in between everybody.
Or if leave a review of something on Google Places.
Seriously: this is simply putting your review of a topic next to the ad for that topic. You know... that review (even if it is just a +1) that you made public, on the internet? I would think that posting something public already qualifies as an opt-in. They are simply indexing the information you put out into the public differently.
They've been putting the same information next to search results since the beginning of +1 and Google Places. Indexing and cross connecting public information is what Google *does*. And they are doing it here, and allowing you to opt-out of this new cross-connection. I'm not sure how this is slimy. It's like quoting something somebody wrote about a topic in a newspaper article: they put it out there, and now that public statement is being used, with full attribution, in conjunction with the appropriate topic.
Now that is a classy troll!
That is more of a classic. I also habitually tpyo and make spalling and grammaticals errors. My use of spalling dates to 110 baud BBSes in the 1980s. I'm pretty sure saying people were being pendantic is something I picked up from usenet and I now use regularly in edit and commit comments. Of course, it assumes an audience who gets it, much like CDO (compulsively alphabetizing things).
I have an easier idea—why not just get rid of first posts? Most of the trouble stems from those. The rule would be simple; if a news article has zero comments on it, no one is allowed to post until it has more.
Actually, that isn't a terrible idea (yes, I get your joke). A more serious implementation would have the comments be invisible for the first hour. People can post them, but only people with moderation points can see them and moderate them. Thus the initial set of visible comments starts off pre-moderated, and presumably sorted by their score. People can game the system -- by putting in high quality replies directed only at the article (or editor/author/summary -- this *is* Slashdot), which is not a bad thing at all.
I would say that games like Trauma and (I believe, as it hasn't actually come out yet) The Witness tap a similar vein from the player perspective.
As I don't often play video games, I would imagine that others could find plenty of other examples that fit. Of course, then I fear (this being Slashdot) you would have to deal with pendants who ignore subjective "feels like" perspectives... which are actually relevant in this case, as we are dealing with art. Still, there are spiritual successors out there that do comprise part of the legacy.
No doubt you've heard of, "singing for one's supper"? At one time that was quite literally true and even today there are probably people who wouldn't mind doing that provided that the performance was agreeable to the owner and the other patrons and the payment in beer and food was good.
Last Saturday evening I watched that happen in a Nashville truck stop. The guy was really good, the patrons generally really enjoyed it, and the guy got a meal.
Yes. That's what that means. It applies to all people equally: people tend to tout their good news more than their bad news. You are repeating my point.
Isn't it just easier to apply this fix instead?
s/government/people
This isn't meant to sound cruel but I've personally never met anyone that was so unfit they could not exercise or change their diet in some way that would help.
You are young and healthy and have never met anybody who was dealt a bad hand genetically or suffered a crippling accident or infection. Get north of 50 after a life of minor accidents, or hang out with young people who have two pacemakers, biweekly seizures and a heart that leaks blood when it beats, and you'll find that not everybody is physically capable of what you envision everybody as able to do. Sometimes it is as simple as a quick infection of the pericardium and heart as a young child. Other times it is something work related like the other car driving into a ditch atop your ATV while you were both pursuing a suspect in the dark. It can even be their fault: I've known people thrown out of the back of pickup trucks who live with a solid brace bolted into their spinal column. It doesn't matter: it is their reality, and they have to deal with what they can do. Eating well, exercising in the pool, doing exactly what their doctors tell them to, but still unable to really be fit.
These are the people who need help beyond mere "exercise and a change in their diet". There are people living beyond your sphere of experience who can benefit greatly from things like this.
If Picard had been young enough when he learned English, a British accent is perfectly plausible.
Yes. That was humor.
Presumably you mean aside from the fact that we haven't seen any sign of the high energy signatures that would surely happen from annihilation collisions when the solar wind meets this interstellar anti-matter.
If you're going to question facts within fictional works, I'd start out by with the point that we didn't actually discover warp theory with the help of four thumbed aliens from Alpha Centari. After that, the properties of interstellar gas seems fairly minor.
To be clear, let me restate: I haven't seen anything directly contradicting the "interstellar hydrogen is mostly antimatter" idea within any canon work of the fictional Star Trek setting invented for television and expanded in books and films by authors who are paid to invent stories for entertainment. This statement does not imply that I believe or have proposed any sort of belief that the vaguely defined warp drive, humanoid aliens, Q Continuum, transporters, tribbles, or an English actor playing a French captain are actually realistic nor exist in the real world. Well, the bit about the actor is technically true, but otherwise, it isn't real.
Dealing with particles via magnetic field was actually the job of the Bussard Collectors (you know, those red glowing things at the front of the nacelles), a.k.a., ramscoops. Which actually didn't deflect it, but collected all that mostly hydrogen in the ship's path.
They were around several years before Star Trek picked up on them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet
For a fairly long time, in the gap between TOS and TNG, when the books were adding to and fleshing out the universe, there was the idea that the vast majority of interstellar hydrogen is antimatter (discovered by Voyager 6 or something like that, when it transmitted back what it found and was promptly annihilated). That was the key thing that allows for travel without having to carry around a ton of reaction mass. Then add dilithium crystals, which were discovered to have a very powerful resonance effect near a matter-antimatter reaction. The discovery was an lab-bench accident, similar to the discovery of X-Rays. Of course, this is back when first contact was between Earth and Alpha Centari, and the Alpha Centariuns (who look like humans, only a bit more stocky and a second opposable thumb instead of a pinky) worked with Earthlings together to discover warp theory. TNG and later canon continuity wiped out most of that, but I haven't seen anything that directly contradicted the "interstellar hydrogen is mostly antimatter" idea.
Have you tried pairing a different controller? I mean, it's one kind of fiasco if they shipped with a bad controller. That can be fixed in future versions, or by the user (with a purchase, which stinks, but hey: bleeding edge is aptly named). If it is the OS that causes the latency, they may be able to fix it. So, option two is bad, but still salvageable. If they shipped hardware that causes serious latency in basic games, then it's pretty dead.
5) What's the deal with CableCard, anyway? Are cable companies going to continue to support this? What about users of IP-based services, like AT&T's U-verse?
I had to talk to AT&T recently, and they pitched U-Verse, and I gave my usual, "Oh, I have several TiVos, so I can't use your service." The guy said they now support TiVo. Could have been a idiotic sales pitch, and Google isn't helpful (years of comments that it doesn't support it overwhelm the results), but if it's important to you, might as well call and ask.
users who say that you haven't taken anything from anyone when they copy bits, and then someone come along and copy bits they care about and the tune change.
And many don't, which you've acknowledged. So, how is this different from any number of other hypocrisies that human beings regularly commit in all areas of life? What you're describing has had entire books written on it that have nothing to do with tech or IP rights or law. What you're saying, essentially, is that Slashdot commentators are a fairly typical swath of human beings.
This is still a bad example, as it is an issue of credit for work done, not copying, as the person who did the work doesn't own it nor claim to have any right to it. It is a simple case of wanting credit for the work he or she did.