If Americans cared and were appalled by Disney's disgusting treatment of American citizens, they have the ability to vote with their dollars
But the new Star Wars movie is coming out soon, and it has that new cute robot that my kids will want as a toy on Christmas day.
I'd bet that 99% of the population doesn't even think of Disney having an IT department, let alone understanding H1B1 visa abuse. And did these same American citizens vote with their dollars when Disney was trying to shut down low cost housing 7 years ago? Disney has a long history of not being a nice company, but people still but their products.
Alt and Win are flopped. If you're trying to form finger memory between Mac, Windows, Mac w/ Windows keyboard, and Windows w/ Mac keyboard, it's a giant pain in the ass.
Given that things like cut and paste are totally different key strokes between Windows and Mac, worrying about key placement seems kinda pointless.
- Put in place dedicated volume keys instead of clunky Fn buttons.
Back in the mid 90's I really appreciated the external analogue volume control on my Thinkpad. One quick swipe before booting up to turn the sound off ensured no embarrassingly loud chime when Windows XP started.
I was browsing Stack Overflow the other day and looked at an SQL/PHP based question. The poor guy asking the question was obviously a n00b who was just starting to code, and had googled around to find a solution to his problem but it wasn't quite working for him (and hence the SO question).
From what I saw the problem wasn't that he was a stupid n00b, it was that his googling had turned up horrendously bad PHP code (using ancient DB connection style code, plus totally SQL injection ready) and he didn't know the difference between that code and best practices. So it seems that part of the problem is the act of using google itself and how good code and bad code examples are presented as equals solely based on what ever google's page rank algorithm de jour is. And I can't see how you can fix that without purging google of all the bad code examples.
Or click the "+" button at the right hand end of the tabs.
Or right click a link and select the top item in the contextual menu.
Or command click a link
Or press command-t.
I was talking about a blank tab, and not opening an existing link in a new tab. So your only relevant suggestions are the "+" and the "T". Both of which are inferior to what has been taken away. The "+" places the tab at the far right and not where I want it, the "T" requires me to move my hands around when I didn't have to before.
..not having that as a context option makes sense to me - it's not an operation on the link.
In that sense I agree, but 8 years of muscle memory disagrees with you.
However while creating a blank tab is not a function you perform on an existing tab, it is a function perform on the Tab Bar itself. So it is relevant in that sense.
Or you could just click the "+" sign on the right of the tab bar.
Yes I could, but the advantage of the contextual menu click was that I could open up a new tab in proximity to another tab. And in that way keep things arranged the way I wanted rather than open up a tab at the far right and then drag the new tab to where I originally wanted it in the first place.
Not sure who originated it, perhaps it was Apple, but the entire minimalist "flat" design paradigm is a UI shipwreck.
It wasn't too bad before the whole skeuomorphism reversal. I think Apple overreacted when they dumped that design philosophy and they went too far in the other direction. (but skeuomorphism was something that was really starting to annoy me) For example, buttons in iOS used to have nice "button-y" like visual appearances. Now they are simply a line of text that you are supposed to guess is actually a button.
When Microsoft came out with the ribbon, I thought, this is bad.
To be fair to Microsoft, I have used programs where the ribbon actually made sense and improved the work flow. But they were graphical designs programs that present objects on the ribbon that you could easily select and drag onto the design surface. On the other hand both Word and Excel regularly piss me off when I have to find something on the ribbon.
A lot of the functionality of the iTunes UI has fallen to the wayside.
I dread every iTunes update as I know I will have to change things back around to the way I like them from the way that Apple thinks I should like them.
And in a sort of related issue, the recent revelation that Siri won't answer music related questions unless you have a current subscription to Apple's music service is both worrisome and telling about the direction that Apple is taking.
With the latest version of Safari, Apple removed from the right mouse click* contextual menu the ability to create a new tab. So instead of "right click, select the top item on the menu, left click" the only way now to create a tab is to either use the file menu or keyboard options. The contextual menu option of creating tabs has been like that for years and years and was not broken and I knew of no complaints about it. Removing it would have been a deliberate action that as far as I can see serves no purpose as the right click contextual menu still exists. And to add insult to injury the item that is now on the top of that list is "close tab", so every time my muscle memory kicks in I end up closing a tab I was viewing rather than opening a new tab.
* Yes, you can use non-apple mice with apple computers, and yes the right mouse button does work. And in general I dislike using Apple's mice and only use 3rd party mice (And Microsoft makes good mice and keyboards that I like and use as does Kensington)
Seeing the pic in the TFA of the hipster guy leaning back while the car drives itself made me think that if it was me, I would not be able to relax while the car just drove. I think I'd still be continually scanning the displays and surrounding area looking out for potential trouble even though I know that I am not in control.
This make me wonder how much autonomous driving it will take before people actually feel emotionally comfortable letting the car do its thing? Or if anyone who has grown up with manual driving can ever fully trust an automated driving system? And I say this as someone who builds automated manufacturing equipment for a living and I implicitly trust those systems to do what they are designed to do (after being thoroughly tested).
(Of course the flip side is that reading Risks List gives me a dose of skepticism when it comes to other peoples systems)
Interesting stuff. I hadn't considered pulling warm air from upper air to the surface at night. In the end though that is a redistribution issue. But looks like the energy extraction transfer issue is indeed very small.
redistribution could be a long term effect that causes issues, but I have no expertise in that area. However as a talking point I can easily see people (EG senators) latching onto
zOMG even the gubmint says that wind farms cause warming!!!!!!
You would need ridiculous numbers of turbines just to slow down the breeze in a general area a little bit, so that area might be a little warmer locally because cooler air isn't pushing through, or warmer air, or something.
Shut down a website hosted in another country, run from outside the USA, not affliated with any US company...... or one that is use by 3 billion people legitimately, and 2 terrorists...
well that's easy.. you just call on the World Police
Given that the Donald wants to force Christian law the entire USA (EG "If I become president, we're all going to be saying Merry Christmas again, that I can tell you," ) on top of everything else has previously said, I have no idea how anyone can take him seriously anymore.
China needs more cheap labor, increasing the population will ensure that
This is also the justification I heard a European politician talking about the influx of Syrian refugees. Europe needs the labour to support their aging population.
As per all comedies of this genre (good natured, but apparent bumbling idiots), regardless of their activities they managed to have saved the day before the final credits rolled. And while they may have been stripped of their ranks at a point in the narrative, they all had them back by the same time next week.
He could easily have mentioned Gilligan's island, Get Smart or Police Squad and still been just as wrong.
Is anyone else getting annoyed at the writing style of recent Slashdot submissions ?
They are being written in a dumbed down folksy style with idiotic mannerisms designed to explain things to idiots, not the geek readership around here.
Remember that Slashdot is up for sale, so "broadening" the audience is going to help Dice recoup what it paid for Slashdot.
I know that this is/. but if you read TFA you'd see that this is already covered.
I asked Young about the ramifications of making what amounts to medical devices. She replied, “Hospitals already have the processes in place to do investigational studies, and these are treated just like those studies.”
One thing is bugging me... 2,950 experiments would be an average of 11 experiments per episode... I don't quite remember there being that many.
Maybe you should do some research and report back on how many experiments actually made it to air. After all you wouldn't want this myth of 11 experiments per show to go untested.
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If Americans cared and were appalled by Disney's disgusting treatment of American citizens, they have the ability to vote with their dollars
But the new Star Wars movie is coming out soon, and it has that new cute robot that my kids will want as a toy on Christmas day.
I'd bet that 99% of the population doesn't even think of Disney having an IT department, let alone understanding H1B1 visa abuse. And did these same American citizens vote with their dollars when Disney was trying to shut down low cost housing 7 years ago? Disney has a long history of not being a nice company, but people still but their products.
Alt and Win are flopped. If you're trying to form finger memory between Mac, Windows, Mac w/ Windows keyboard, and Windows w/ Mac keyboard, it's a giant pain in the ass.
Given that things like cut and paste are totally different key strokes between Windows and Mac, worrying about key placement seems kinda pointless.
- Put in place dedicated volume keys instead of clunky Fn buttons.
Back in the mid 90's I really appreciated the external analogue volume control on my Thinkpad. One quick swipe before booting up to turn the sound off ensured no embarrassingly loud chime when Windows XP started.
I was having a simple Linux problem, and they told me "sudo rm -rf /*" would fix everything.
OP is lying.
The SO group think would have said that a Linux (and not programming question) was off topic and belonged on one of the other associated sites.
It's irresponsible to continue to do this.
I was browsing Stack Overflow the other day and looked at an SQL/PHP based question. The poor guy asking the question was obviously a n00b who was just starting to code, and had googled around to find a solution to his problem but it wasn't quite working for him (and hence the SO question).
From what I saw the problem wasn't that he was a stupid n00b, it was that his googling had turned up horrendously bad PHP code (using ancient DB connection style code, plus totally SQL injection ready) and he didn't know the difference between that code and best practices. So it seems that part of the problem is the act of using google itself and how good code and bad code examples are presented as equals solely based on what ever google's page rank algorithm de jour is. And I can't see how you can fix that without purging google of all the bad code examples.
Or click the "+" button at the right hand end of the tabs.
Or right click a link and select the top item in the contextual menu.
Or command click a link
Or press command-t.
I was talking about a blank tab, and not opening an existing link in a new tab. So your only relevant suggestions are the "+" and the "T". Both of which are inferior to what has been taken away. The "+" places the tab at the far right and not where I want it, the "T" requires me to move my hands around when I didn't have to before.
..not having that as a context option makes sense to me - it's not an operation on the link.
In that sense I agree, but 8 years of muscle memory disagrees with you.
However while creating a blank tab is not a function you perform on an existing tab, it is a function perform on the Tab Bar itself. So it is relevant in that sense.
Or you could just click the "+" sign on the right of the tab bar.
Yes I could, but the advantage of the contextual menu click was that I could open up a new tab in proximity to another tab. And in that way keep things arranged the way I wanted rather than open up a tab at the far right and then drag the new tab to where I originally wanted it in the first place.
Not sure who originated it, perhaps it was Apple, but the entire minimalist "flat" design paradigm is a UI shipwreck.
It wasn't too bad before the whole skeuomorphism reversal. I think Apple overreacted when they dumped that design philosophy and they went too far in the other direction. (but skeuomorphism was something that was really starting to annoy me) For example, buttons in iOS used to have nice "button-y" like visual appearances. Now they are simply a line of text that you are supposed to guess is actually a button.
When Microsoft came out with the ribbon, I thought, this is bad.
To be fair to Microsoft, I have used programs where the ribbon actually made sense and improved the work flow. But they were graphical designs programs that present objects on the ribbon that you could easily select and drag onto the design surface. On the other hand both Word and Excel regularly piss me off when I have to find something on the ribbon.
A lot of the functionality of the iTunes UI has fallen to the wayside.
I dread every iTunes update as I know I will have to change things back around to the way I like them from the way that Apple thinks I should like them.
And in a sort of related issue, the recent revelation that Siri won't answer music related questions unless you have a current subscription to Apple's music service is both worrisome and telling about the direction that Apple is taking.
With the latest version of Safari, Apple removed from the right mouse click* contextual menu the ability to create a new tab. So instead of "right click, select the top item on the menu, left click" the only way now to create a tab is to either use the file menu or keyboard options. The contextual menu option of creating tabs has been like that for years and years and was not broken and I knew of no complaints about it. Removing it would have been a deliberate action that as far as I can see serves no purpose as the right click contextual menu still exists. And to add insult to injury the item that is now on the top of that list is "close tab", so every time my muscle memory kicks in I end up closing a tab I was viewing rather than opening a new tab.
* Yes, you can use non-apple mice with apple computers, and yes the right mouse button does work. And in general I dislike using Apple's mice and only use 3rd party mice (And Microsoft makes good mice and keyboards that I like and use as does Kensington)
And it's still on the front page
MIT Helping NASA Build Valkyrie Robots For Space Missions
More proof that the "you are all cows" guy is referring to the editors
Seeing the pic in the TFA of the hipster guy leaning back while the car drives itself made me think that if it was me, I would not be able to relax while the car just drove. I think I'd still be continually scanning the displays and surrounding area looking out for potential trouble even though I know that I am not in control.
This make me wonder how much autonomous driving it will take before people actually feel emotionally comfortable letting the car do its thing? Or if anyone who has grown up with manual driving can ever fully trust an automated driving system? And I say this as someone who builds automated manufacturing equipment for a living and I implicitly trust those systems to do what they are designed to do (after being thoroughly tested).
(Of course the flip side is that reading Risks List gives me a dose of skepticism when it comes to other peoples systems)
Interesting stuff. I hadn't considered pulling warm air from upper air to the surface at night. In the end though that is a redistribution issue. But looks like the energy extraction transfer issue is indeed very small.
redistribution could be a long term effect that causes issues, but I have no expertise in that area. However as a talking point I can easily see people (EG senators) latching onto
zOMG even the gubmint says that wind farms cause warming!!!!!!
You would need ridiculous numbers of turbines just to slow down the breeze in a general area a little bit, so that area might be a little warmer locally because cooler air isn't pushing through, or warmer air, or something.
Do you mean like this? NASA Satellite Measurements Imply Texas Wind Farm Impact on Surface Temperature
Shut down a website hosted in another country, run from outside the USA, not affliated with any US company ... ... or one that is use by 3 billion people legitimately, and 2 terrorists ...
well that's easy .. you just call on the World Police
Bust some rear?
Hold back much?
Did you see his handle name? Most likely he is still in the process of typing out it his comment.
Zip of death
Is it a zip file? Yes
Is it dangerous? Yes
So how do you test for this without opening the file in a virtual environment and seeing what happens?
I have a feeling that testing for malicious files is akin to solving the halting problem
Donald Trump just said, "Wages are too high."
Given that the Donald wants to force Christian law the entire USA (EG "If I become president, we're all going to be saying Merry Christmas again, that I can tell you," ) on top of everything else has previously said, I have no idea how anyone can take him seriously anymore.
I live in Michigan, where zip codes start with 4's. And the only thing I'm jealous about in Virginia Beach is they have the zip code 12345.
Um .. the 12345 Zip is not even in VA. It's NY zip ... Schenectady to be exact, and apparently GE Headquarters
China needs more cheap labor, increasing the population will ensure that
This is also the justification I heard a European politician talking about the influx of Syrian refugees. Europe needs the labour to support their aging population.
As per all comedies of this genre (good natured, but apparent bumbling idiots), regardless of their activities they managed to have saved the day before the final credits rolled. And while they may have been stripped of their ranks at a point in the narrative, they all had them back by the same time next week.
He could easily have mentioned Gilligan's island, Get Smart or Police Squad and still been just as wrong.
Is anyone else getting annoyed at the writing style of recent Slashdot submissions ?
They are being written in a dumbed down folksy style with idiotic mannerisms designed to explain things to idiots, not the geek readership around here.
Remember that Slashdot is up for sale, so "broadening" the audience is going to help Dice recoup what it paid for Slashdot.
Lawyers would have a field day with this.
I know that this is /. but if you read TFA you'd see that this is already covered.
I asked Young about the ramifications of making what amounts to medical devices. She replied, “Hospitals already have the processes in place to do investigational studies, and these are treated just like those studies.”
+1.
One thing is bugging me... 2,950 experiments would be an average of 11 experiments per episode... I don't quite remember there being that many.
Maybe you should do some research and report back on how many experiments actually made it to air. After all you wouldn't want this myth of 11 experiments per show to go untested.