"If they're showing something to you it's *because they want you to see it*, even if (or especially if) it slows you down "
That reminds me of what one of the shopping districts in the area tried to do recently. The road was two lanes in each direction (30mph limit) and would frequently get jammed up, especially during busy shopping seasons. Their proposed solution? Reduce it to one lane in each direction to force people to go *even slower* so that they would notice the local shops more. Fortunately, the plans were abandoned after a huge number of people called in to tell them they would just boycott the whole area if they intentionally increased congestion.
Maybe ten or fifteen years ago. On the modern Web, users expect Enter to equal Submit... especially for a single textbox entry form that, the vast majority of the time, is only used for a single sentence or less. It's fairly standard across the Web and has been for quite some time.
Er, no, still doesn't make sense. To enhance the "product", Facebook needs to A) encourage more users to join and B) encourage existing users to spend as much time/information on Facebook as possible. This extension would seem to do the latter quite well by providing a better experience.
I can see the logic of "third party extensions may cause undesired behavior to the user, which could be unfairly blamed on Facebook". However, it's pretty weak logic to begin with and user education would be a better approach.
Genius! I don't know how you come up with these ideas. Did you know we can eliminate the risk of being in an automobile crash by never leaving home? And we will never suffer from food poisoning if we just don't eat.
We get it. You don't use Facebook. You think that makes you special. I bet you don't have a TV either. Hell, you probably don't even remember what a TV looks like. We understand you here.
It was in response to his first statement that this is the argument that Republicans should be using. My whole point was the Republicans shouldn't use it as their argument because it's largely untrue. Why not spend a few minutes working on elementary reading comprehension skills?
That's the EULA equivalent of an include. Now go read your volume license agreement. It should also be noted that different versions of Notepad have different EULA terms. I believe it's XP (and possibly others) that includes mention of processor restrictions.
From what I've read, there's a big loophole in it so you don't have to pay the fine either:
"Oh, and the IRS has no authority to go after someone’s assets or wages in order to collect the penalty. It only has the authority to deduct the penalty from a person’s tax refund at year’s end. It won’t take long for people to figure out how to fix that problem by trying to ensure they have only enough withheld to meet their tax obligation. Those who are uninsured and successful at hitting the tax mark will face no effective penalty."
It's kind of misleading to say "nobody else is". I know plenty of people who have already had their plans canceled or changed as a direct result of Obamacare; many more have already been warned of sharp premium increases by their insurance company due to Obamacare requirements, which may force some people to cancel plans they can no longer afford.
If I have this right, then it's sort of like saying I agreed to $5,500 for a car but spent $9,000 including repairs and then spent $50,000 towards roads, bridges, signage, etc.
One of the beginner classes I had to take in college was on different OSes. We were required to read every OS EULA before we installed it. And we were quizzed on it.
I won't say it's amazing how much crap you agree to (I'm looking at you Notepad, with your fancy limiting the number of cores I can run you on), but it's amazing that someone took the time to come up with all of that crap.
It seems all the nonsense about Congress being exempt is nonsense. Congress is no more exempt than you or I am (assuming you're an American citizen). However, they do already have health insurance through their employer (the federal government) just like I have insurance from my employer, so I don't need to deal with the exchanges if I don't want to either. Spewing false facts would hurt the Republicans case more than help it... probably why they're not mentioning it. It's even possible some congressional aide did the 2 minute Google search required to find a few reliable sources to verify it.
They usually became serial killers as the result of being a doctor watching House, a lawyer watching Law and Order, or anybody in IT watching any sort of computers.
"During an online conversation with fans on AOL in December 1995, Straczyski reported that “we've received a number of inquiries from folks associated with NASA about the prospect of perhaps someday actually building working Starfuries, mainly as the space industry equivilent [sic] to fork lifts and heavy loaders”.[12] When asked if there was still interest in doing that, during an interview in 2009, he indicated that he had not “heard anything new about this in several years”. [13]"
To be fair, warp technology makes this point pretty moot in Star Trek. If they lose engines, they're either A) already stopped, B) at warp, thus losing the warp field but keeping the inertia they had in the warp field (which is to say, none) or C) not in range of another unpowered object from which to get a frame of reference... when a powered ship comes across an unpowered ship in Trek, they could both easily be doing a third the speed of light relative to the nearest planet, but at a stop relative to each other.
In short, Star Trek's warp-related physics doesn't break nearly as many real-world physics as it seems to at first glance... most of the time.
"The International Space Station silently orbits the Earth, black of space above, blue of ocean below. An astronaut floats in the cupola, a dome of glass and steel that faces the planet underneath, smiling to himself as he takes one photo after another of our home world. What he doesn’t know is that a Russian missile is about to make his life very interesting."
Because I imagine that the life of an astronaut is otherwise boring, on par with that of a rock farmer.
Not entirely true. Large diamonds with few or no flaws are fairly rare on earth. Small diamonds, not so much. This is why small diamonds (.2 carat) are pretty cheap.
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"If they're showing something to you it's *because they want you to see it*, even if (or especially if) it slows you down "
That reminds me of what one of the shopping districts in the area tried to do recently. The road was two lanes in each direction (30mph limit) and would frequently get jammed up, especially during busy shopping seasons. Their proposed solution? Reduce it to one lane in each direction to force people to go *even slower* so that they would notice the local shops more. Fortunately, the plans were abandoned after a huge number of people called in to tell them they would just boycott the whole area if they intentionally increased congestion.
Maybe ten or fifteen years ago. On the modern Web, users expect Enter to equal Submit... especially for a single textbox entry form that, the vast majority of the time, is only used for a single sentence or less. It's fairly standard across the Web and has been for quite some time.
Er, no, still doesn't make sense. To enhance the "product", Facebook needs to A) encourage more users to join and B) encourage existing users to spend as much time/information on Facebook as possible. This extension would seem to do the latter quite well by providing a better experience.
I can see the logic of "third party extensions may cause undesired behavior to the user, which could be unfairly blamed on Facebook". However, it's pretty weak logic to begin with and user education would be a better approach.
Genius! I don't know how you come up with these ideas. Did you know we can eliminate the risk of being in an automobile crash by never leaving home? And we will never suffer from food poisoning if we just don't eat.
We get it. You don't use Facebook. You think that makes you special. I bet you don't have a TV either. Hell, you probably don't even remember what a TV looks like. We understand you here.
What's wrong with shift+enter for line breaks like most other websites with Press-Enter-to-Submit?
It was in response to his first statement that this is the argument that Republicans should be using. My whole point was the Republicans shouldn't use it as their argument because it's largely untrue. Why not spend a few minutes working on elementary reading comprehension skills?
That's the EULA equivalent of an include. Now go read your volume license agreement. It should also be noted that different versions of Notepad have different EULA terms. I believe it's XP (and possibly others) that includes mention of processor restrictions.
From what I've read, there's a big loophole in it so you don't have to pay the fine either:
"Oh, and the IRS has no authority to go after someone’s assets or wages in order to collect the penalty. It only has the authority to deduct the penalty from a person’s tax refund at year’s end. It won’t take long for people to figure out how to fix that problem by trying to ensure they have only enough withheld to meet their tax obligation. Those who are uninsured and successful at hitting the tax mark will face no effective penalty."
Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillmatthews/2013/06/27/a-surprising-health-insurance-option-for-those-who-refuse-obamacare/
If those extra roads exist solely to service that bridge, then yes.
It's kind of misleading to say "nobody else is". I know plenty of people who have already had their plans canceled or changed as a direct result of Obamacare; many more have already been warned of sharp premium increases by their insurance company due to Obamacare requirements, which may force some people to cancel plans they can no longer afford.
If I have this right, then it's sort of like saying I agreed to $5,500 for a car but spent $9,000 including repairs and then spent $50,000 towards roads, bridges, signage, etc.
One of the beginner classes I had to take in college was on different OSes. We were required to read every OS EULA before we installed it. And we were quizzed on it.
I won't say it's amazing how much crap you agree to (I'm looking at you Notepad, with your fancy limiting the number of cores I can run you on), but it's amazing that someone took the time to come up with all of that crap.
It seems all the nonsense about Congress being exempt is nonsense. Congress is no more exempt than you or I am (assuming you're an American citizen). However, they do already have health insurance through their employer (the federal government) just like I have insurance from my employer, so I don't need to deal with the exchanges if I don't want to either. Spewing false facts would hurt the Republicans case more than help it... probably why they're not mentioning it. It's even possible some congressional aide did the 2 minute Google search required to find a few reliable sources to verify it.
I thought Iron Sky was a documentary until they revealed Canada's spaceship had *weapons*. That was just silly.
Not true. Guns always run out of bullets with dramatically convenient timing
"or a real serial killer to watch 'Dexter'."
They usually became serial killers as the result of being a doctor watching House, a lawyer watching Law and Order, or anybody in IT watching any sort of computers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfury#Real_world_interest
"During an online conversation with fans on AOL in December 1995, Straczyski reported that “we've received a number of inquiries from folks associated with NASA about the prospect of perhaps someday actually building working Starfuries, mainly as the space industry equivilent [sic] to fork lifts and heavy loaders”.[12] When asked if there was still interest in doing that, during an interview in 2009, he indicated that he had not “heard anything new about this in several years”. [13]"
To be fair, warp technology makes this point pretty moot in Star Trek. If they lose engines, they're either A) already stopped, B) at warp, thus losing the warp field but keeping the inertia they had in the warp field (which is to say, none) or C) not in range of another unpowered object from which to get a frame of reference... when a powered ship comes across an unpowered ship in Trek, they could both easily be doing a third the speed of light relative to the nearest planet, but at a stop relative to each other.
In short, Star Trek's warp-related physics doesn't break nearly as many real-world physics as it seems to at first glance... most of the time.
Unfortunately, it only rarely seems to apply to politics.
He was more of a rock hunter/gatherer.
I wouldn't secure my personal data with the same thing that's apparently keeping me from downloading a car
"The International Space Station silently orbits the Earth, black of space above, blue of ocean below. An astronaut floats in the cupola, a dome of glass and steel that faces the planet underneath, smiling to himself as he takes one photo after another of our home world. What he doesn’t know is that a Russian missile is about to make his life very interesting."
Because I imagine that the life of an astronaut is otherwise boring, on par with that of a rock farmer.
I bet it's those Pirates of Silicon Valley. Damn pirates, always stealing everything.
Not entirely true. Large diamonds with few or no flaws are fairly rare on earth. Small diamonds, not so much. This is why small diamonds ( .2 carat) are pretty cheap.