I respect that Apple likes good industrial design. What I don't respect is that they seem to value their own interpretations of what people want versus what actual people want. There is a healthy streak of "our way is better, people will get used to it" in their design choices.
Just that little backwater known as Chicago. I've driven in all those places, too. I've witnessed the occasional examples of people driving like that, but the vast majority of incidents that *seem* like the driver is sticking it to me, are really just drivers who do not even see the other cars. Evidenced by when a toot on the horn is responded to with a terrified look of "where did that car come from?"
I find it hard to believe that other drivers pay ANY attention to the other cars on the road, much less actively obstructing them. It's narcissism to think otherwise.
There is nothing wrong with a burger. The trouble is in the fries and various pastries made with trans fats instead of what they are supposed to be made of.
There is nothing pleasurable about trans fats. They are cheap and stable fats that make processing and cooking food *cheaper* not better. They are margarine and crisco, both of which are nasty and not nearly as good as their natural alternatives, butter and lard.
I think the way to look at it would be to look at how the engineers' time is getting used. Are highly paid broadcast engineers being sidetracked with unjamming printers, replacing keyboards and whatnot?
But in a broadcast organization, engineering sort of IS the IT department. Maybe engineering just needs to reorganize itself.
No more complicated than it is now: figure out when the solstice will be, map it to a date and time. Instead of shifting + or - a day here or there, it will be + or - three days. Seems like a good tradeoff for the other simplicity.
It isn't about keeping things in sync with the solar system, as we now have better ways of measuring that. Now the calendar just needs to be a way to make sure we know when to pay our bills.
I agree. It's not like they would outlaw using imperial units. We will still be able to keep our SAE wrenches. All that would happen is pretty much what is already happening everywhere except the nut and bolt section of the hardware store- stuff gets labeled in both until attrition kills off the imperial units.
It actually makes the calendar just a bit worse to make life a little bit easier. I realized that I really like having Christmas and New Years on Sunday. Most importantly, having Christmas Eve off (Saturday) and the day after Christmas (holiday).
My only quibble with the calendar is, what do you do with the extra weeks? Short of a worldwide orgy-week, I can forsee troubles with that. How do you account for business sales when they don't happen in the regular year or during a regular quarter?
There is value in spreading the primaries out. Just like we saw with the drawn out debate season, it shakes out the "stars" and brings skeletons out of closets. It also pushes candidates who aren't thought to be legitimate by the media and the pundits, but who the people actually like, out into the open. If I remember right, Barack Obama wasn't thought to be a serious contender until he handily won the Iowa caucuses.
It is actually a benefit that the smaller states are first- winning candidates get a lot more media attention and more vetting before the big states' primaries, but they don't get all that many delegates. If they turn out to be nutjobs, not much damage is done.
You don't understand. He thinks the average democrat is as weasly and conniving as he is. If he had the brains and the balls to do it, he would absolutely try to hack democratic primaries, and so he assumes that the democrats will be doing the same thing. It seems like these people are drawn to, and thus overrepresented, in the GOP.
Fly by wire is not an over complication. The alternatives are old-fashioned steel cables and pulleys, and hydraulics. Both are more complicated and more prone to failure.
I like it for expediency (no need to restore when a drive fails) and for simplicity. I found myself with single drives in a bunch of machines, and my free space management got to be a huge waste of time. It became easier to just concatenate all my storage into one volume with one "xxxGB free space" indicator and when that starts to fill up, I start replacing hard drives.
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I respect that Apple likes good industrial design. What I don't respect is that they seem to value their own interpretations of what people want versus what actual people want. There is a healthy streak of "our way is better, people will get used to it" in their design choices.
Just that little backwater known as Chicago. I've driven in all those places, too. I've witnessed the occasional examples of people driving like that, but the vast majority of incidents that *seem* like the driver is sticking it to me, are really just drivers who do not even see the other cars. Evidenced by when a toot on the horn is responded to with a terrified look of "where did that car come from?"
I agree. The GE Reveal is a fine light bulb.
I find it hard to believe that other drivers pay ANY attention to the other cars on the road, much less actively obstructing them. It's narcissism to think otherwise.
There is nothing wrong with a burger. The trouble is in the fries and various pastries made with trans fats instead of what they are supposed to be made of.
There is nothing pleasurable about trans fats. They are cheap and stable fats that make processing and cooking food *cheaper* not better. They are margarine and crisco, both of which are nasty and not nearly as good as their natural alternatives, butter and lard.
I think the way to look at it would be to look at how the engineers' time is getting used. Are highly paid broadcast engineers being sidetracked with unjamming printers, replacing keyboards and whatnot?
But in a broadcast organization, engineering sort of IS the IT department. Maybe engineering just needs to reorganize itself.
I'm pretty sure your New Year's Day is going to be 24 hours long, just like the rest of them.
That would be one HELL of a 4th of July party though.
If the common man can't figure out APR/365*days*balance, he won't figure this out either.
No more complicated than it is now: figure out when the solstice will be, map it to a date and time. Instead of shifting + or - a day here or there, it will be + or - three days. Seems like a good tradeoff for the other simplicity.
Because I don't want to wait another 2500 years for February 30th. Duh.
It isn't about keeping things in sync with the solar system, as we now have better ways of measuring that. Now the calendar just needs to be a way to make sure we know when to pay our bills.
I agree. It's not like they would outlaw using imperial units. We will still be able to keep our SAE wrenches. All that would happen is pretty much what is already happening everywhere except the nut and bolt section of the hardware store- stuff gets labeled in both until attrition kills off the imperial units.
It actually makes the calendar just a bit worse to make life a little bit easier. I realized that I really like having Christmas and New Years on Sunday. Most importantly, having Christmas Eve off (Saturday) and the day after Christmas (holiday).
My only quibble with the calendar is, what do you do with the extra weeks? Short of a worldwide orgy-week, I can forsee troubles with that. How do you account for business sales when they don't happen in the regular year or during a regular quarter?
So what? That makes it OK for the republicans to do it now?
There is value in spreading the primaries out. Just like we saw with the drawn out debate season, it shakes out the "stars" and brings skeletons out of closets. It also pushes candidates who aren't thought to be legitimate by the media and the pundits, but who the people actually like, out into the open. If I remember right, Barack Obama wasn't thought to be a serious contender until he handily won the Iowa caucuses.
It is actually a benefit that the smaller states are first- winning candidates get a lot more media attention and more vetting before the big states' primaries, but they don't get all that many delegates. If they turn out to be nutjobs, not much damage is done.
I agree- they are running for a cabinet post at this point, I think.
It is. It's just that you aren't voting for the president. You are voting for who your state will vote for.
You don't understand. He thinks the average democrat is as weasly and conniving as he is. If he had the brains and the balls to do it, he would absolutely try to hack democratic primaries, and so he assumes that the democrats will be doing the same thing. It seems like these people are drawn to, and thus overrepresented, in the GOP.
The distance from the pitcher's mound to home plate is 60' 6", so each pitch is just under one chain long.
Yeah, but good luck getting replacement bulbs beyond the two (and one flasher) included in the box.
Fly by wire is not an over complication. The alternatives are old-fashioned steel cables and pulleys, and hydraulics. Both are more complicated and more prone to failure.
I'm sure they never thought of that.
I like it for expediency (no need to restore when a drive fails) and for simplicity. I found myself with single drives in a bunch of machines, and my free space management got to be a huge waste of time. It became easier to just concatenate all my storage into one volume with one "xxxGB free space" indicator and when that starts to fill up, I start replacing hard drives.