Generally, we distinguish states that have a written constitution from those that have an implied constitution. We call one constitutional and the other not.
It's not really a gift, though, if one has to spend money to get it. Do you often fall for the "but if you buy now we'll throw in X..." deals thinking that X is completely free and not a planned part of the transaction?
"look dummy, every single item you had access to with these cumbersome menus is available on screen"
That is most certainly not true.
A counter-example from Word 2010: "Kerning for fonts X Points and above" which is available in the advanced font dialog, as far as I could tell, cannot be added to the ribbon and is not there on a virgin install.
Which brings me to another point, why is there no search on the customize ribbon UI? Why did I have to select "All commands" and then scroll around stuff that started with "font..." and stuff that started with "kern..." to try to find this command?
There's a difference between more or less efficient and necessary (impossible to do without). It is perfectly possible to drive a manual car without a tachometer and with a quiet engine. Millions of people do it every hour.
Also, anyone driving a manual, or even an auto-manual, needs to hear the engine to know when to shift, because they can't be staring at the tachometer when driving.
No one *needs* to hear the engine noise to know when to shift. Feeling the car's velocity and knowing what gear one's in is sufficient information most of the time.
Palm's issue, was that the "Pre" was to late to the smart phone market, by then, Apple was already with iPhone. When I had my Palm, and my cellphone, I kept wondering why the two were not melded. My wonderment lasted over two years.
So if it was so difficult, why not break Palm OS to make it work on phones.
Never heard of the Treo? Palm was selling smart phones since 2003 when they acquired Treo from Handspring. But I don't think it was ever successful. Blackberry devices were more efficient and by the time the iPhone came out they had switched to Windows Mobile.
One major use-case that iPhone covered that Treo did not was rendering webpages that were not specifically formatted for the device.
Can it, though? I would imagine it writes to the user's home directory, which does not require root. Nor does running executable files owned by that user.
Nor do the 65% of the population that are not obese (according to your numbers, which I am not sure where you get them from since the Lancet reports much different numbers: http://www.thelancet.com/journ....
Once again, no item you can eat contains healthy or unhealthy calories. The calorie is a measurement of energy. If one eats dramatically more or dramatically less energy then one's body metabolizes, they are adding an unhealthy element to their lives.
We do not say sarcastically "But you still get all the healthy water!" because its possible to drink enough water to get water poisoning. We do not claim that water is unhealthy for us because a surfeit or lack is unhealthy for us. It is the surfeit or lack that is unhealthy, not the water. Similarly, a calorie itself is not healthy or unhealthy.
So do be sure you don't imply that Americans somehow have a lock on any type of chocolate, especially considering that none of it originates in the US...
What do you mean by originates? Cocoa beans don't grow in the US, nor do they grow in Europe. If you mean produced, then both Europe and US have fine chocolatiers and fine chocolate producers.
Feelings are rather important when it comes to expressing oneself. If I feel like what I say will be twisted and used against me, I will be less likely to express myself. If everyone feels like what they say has no impact, or worse a negative impact, they'll remain mum and docile.
The "study" has many, many problems, but the fact that they are concerned by how writers "feel" is not one of them.
Because there are obvious safety issues with crossing a road outside a crosswalk, whereas you'd be hard-pressed to come up with a similar rationale for carrying ±2 grams of pot.
It, again comes does to removing judgment and making clear lines. First, the premises of both laws: crossing the street can be done safely or unsafely; smoking pot by yourself is not harming anyone but providing pot for others could be a harm to others. Now, how to enforce them without making vague rules: lines painted where it's permitted; a mass measure to determine how much is more than for oneself.
Of course, there are times when one can cross safely outside the lines and there are times when one wants to smoke a lot more, but if we make laws to encourage one type of behavior it's better for those laws to be clear. Lines and numbers do that; that's why there's a number.
One can disagree with the number, but that's how limits work. Same goes for BAC or number of times you enter the country on a visa or amount of money you can carry across a border without declaring it or value of a gift you can give without it being taxable income or so many other things.
Why would you want to limit yourself to only one screen? It has been repeatedly shown that the single biggest and most consistent productivity enhancing upgrade you can give to almost anyone working on a computer is a second monitor.
Do you have a citation for a few of these studies?
The major difference is that a company given a letter (not a subpoena) has no incentive to not hand over the data. It's not like consumers have ever shown they care (enough, via the bottom line). Companies know this. That's why Amazon shut down WikiLeaks with only a phone call (no subpoena) and no one cared that the government could just silence a website they disagreed with without even making a legal argument. That's why scuba shops handed over their customer lists to the FBI when asked, without a subpoena. There are so many other cases of companies thinking "well, it's not like the customer cares, we can be nice to the government and not even piss anyone off".
In the case of the subpoena, yes you gain nothing by storing the data yourself. In the case of a letter or phone call asking nicely, you have far more control. You can ignore it. A company may or may not.
That other eco system doesn't deliver updates to every single device on the same day.
Well, I don't know what you mean by "every single device", since not all updates are for every device. But, they do *offer* the update to every *eligible* device starting on one single day. If a customer wants the update, they touch a button. If a customer has automatic updates, they'll get it sometime "soon", where "soon" is indeed staggered and might be a day or so later. For people that want it, they get it day 1. For people that don't care or pay attention, they get it anytime from day 1 to day N (where N in my experience has been single digits. For people that don't want it, they never get it.
I don't use an Android device, so I have nothing to complain about. I was under the impression that Nexus devices did not have carrier-specific-bits, which is why I was trying to understand the reason for a delay. Network saturation makes no sense, since it's clear that other eco system can handle a release day over the same networks. Testing makes no sense, since Google tests their bits before giving it to carriers. If the carriers want to integrate other bits for other devices, fine, but why delay Nexus updates for that reason?
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Generally, we distinguish states that have a written constitution from those that have an implied constitution. We call one constitutional and the other not.
It's not really a gift, though, if one has to spend money to get it. Do you often fall for the "but if you buy now we'll throw in X..." deals thinking that X is completely free and not a planned part of the transaction?
>> WTF happened to Office 365
It will be renamed "Office 362" when the statistics will show 3 days downtime per year :))))
Or perhaps "Office 363" on leap years :)
And here I thought it would be named Office 6 to follow the Xbox 360 to Xbox One naming convention of subtracting 359 every major release.
"look dummy, every single item you had access to with these cumbersome menus is available on screen"
That is most certainly not true.
A counter-example from Word 2010: "Kerning for fonts X Points and above" which is available in the advanced font dialog, as far as I could tell, cannot be added to the ribbon and is not there on a virgin install.
Which brings me to another point, why is there no search on the customize ribbon UI? Why did I have to select "All commands" and then scroll around stuff that started with "font..." and stuff that started with "kern..." to try to find this command?
There's a difference between more or less efficient and necessary (impossible to do without). It is perfectly possible to drive a manual car without a tachometer and with a quiet engine. Millions of people do it every hour.
What happens when a troll releases a mobile platform that only implements one API (say clearScreenToColor()) and shills a small marketshare?
It's not the auto manufacturers' fault that their best customers think that way.
The customer's did not spend millions over decades building a brand...the manufacturer did. You can't claim they've had no influence.
Also, anyone driving a manual, or even an auto-manual, needs to hear the engine to know when to shift, because they can't be staring at the tachometer when driving.
No one *needs* to hear the engine noise to know when to shift. Feeling the car's velocity and knowing what gear one's in is sufficient information most of the time.
The new Blackberry OS can run Android apps. Whats the problem?
The problem is that it does not do it very well at all.
Palm's issue, was that the "Pre" was to late to the smart phone market, by then, Apple was already with iPhone. When I had my Palm, and my cellphone, I kept wondering why the two were not melded. My wonderment lasted over two years.
So if it was so difficult, why not break Palm OS to make it work on phones.
Never heard of the Treo? Palm was selling smart phones since 2003 when they acquired Treo from Handspring. But I don't think it was ever successful. Blackberry devices were more efficient and by the time the iPhone came out they had switched to Windows Mobile.
One major use-case that iPhone covered that Treo did not was rendering webpages that were not specifically formatted for the device.
Can it, though? I would imagine it writes to the user's home directory, which does not require root. Nor does running executable files owned by that user.
Nor do the 65% of the population that are not obese (according to your numbers, which I am not sure where you get them from since the Lancet reports much different numbers: http://www.thelancet.com/journ....
Once again, no item you can eat contains healthy or unhealthy calories. The calorie is a measurement of energy. If one eats dramatically more or dramatically less energy then one's body metabolizes, they are adding an unhealthy element to their lives.
We do not say sarcastically "But you still get all the healthy water!" because its possible to drink enough water to get water poisoning. We do not claim that water is unhealthy for us because a surfeit or lack is unhealthy for us. It is the surfeit or lack that is unhealthy, not the water. Similarly, a calorie itself is not healthy or unhealthy.
A calorie is a unit of energy. I still don't understand what makes one calorie unhealthy and what makes another calorie healthy.
But you still get all the healthy sugar and calories!
What makes a calorie unhealthy?
A surfeit of them.
But not a lack of them? Quantity is a much different facet than the identify of a thing.
But you still get all the healthy sugar and calories!
What makes a calorie unhealthy?
So do be sure you don't imply that Americans somehow have a lock on any type of chocolate, especially considering that none of it originates in the US...
What do you mean by originates? Cocoa beans don't grow in the US, nor do they grow in Europe. If you mean produced, then both Europe and US have fine chocolatiers and fine chocolate producers.
Feelings are rather important when it comes to expressing oneself. If I feel like what I say will be twisted and used against me, I will be less likely to express myself. If everyone feels like what they say has no impact, or worse a negative impact, they'll remain mum and docile.
The "study" has many, many problems, but the fact that they are concerned by how writers "feel" is not one of them.
Because there are obvious safety issues with crossing a road outside a crosswalk, whereas you'd be hard-pressed to come up with a similar rationale for carrying ±2 grams of pot.
It, again comes does to removing judgment and making clear lines. First, the premises of both laws: crossing the street can be done safely or unsafely; smoking pot by yourself is not harming anyone but providing pot for others could be a harm to others. Now, how to enforce them without making vague rules: lines painted where it's permitted; a mass measure to determine how much is more than for oneself.
Of course, there are times when one can cross safely outside the lines and there are times when one wants to smoke a lot more, but if we make laws to encourage one type of behavior it's better for those laws to be clear. Lines and numbers do that; that's why there's a number.
One can disagree with the number, but that's how limits work. Same goes for BAC or number of times you enter the country on a visa or amount of money you can carry across a border without declaring it or value of a gift you can give without it being taxable income or so many other things.
Out of curiosity, why have you stopped using the ViewSonic p225f?
Why would you want to limit yourself to only one screen? It has been repeatedly shown that the single biggest and most consistent productivity enhancing upgrade you can give to almost anyone working on a computer is a second monitor.
Do you have a citation for a few of these studies?
The major difference is that a company given a letter (not a subpoena) has no incentive to not hand over the data. It's not like consumers have ever shown they care (enough, via the bottom line). Companies know this. That's why Amazon shut down WikiLeaks with only a phone call (no subpoena) and no one cared that the government could just silence a website they disagreed with without even making a legal argument. That's why scuba shops handed over their customer lists to the FBI when asked, without a subpoena. There are so many other cases of companies thinking "well, it's not like the customer cares, we can be nice to the government and not even piss anyone off".
In the case of the subpoena, yes you gain nothing by storing the data yourself. In the case of a letter or phone call asking nicely, you have far more control. You can ignore it. A company may or may not.
1. Meditate every day, even if only for five minutes.
2. Mindfully approach everything you do.
3. Profit.
That other eco system doesn't deliver updates to every single device on the same day.
Well, I don't know what you mean by "every single device", since not all updates are for every device. But, they do *offer* the update to every *eligible* device starting on one single day. If a customer wants the update, they touch a button. If a customer has automatic updates, they'll get it sometime "soon", where "soon" is indeed staggered and might be a day or so later. For people that want it, they get it day 1. For people that don't care or pay attention, they get it anytime from day 1 to day N (where N in my experience has been single digits. For people that don't want it, they never get it.
I don't use an Android device, so I have nothing to complain about. I was under the impression that Nexus devices did not have carrier-specific-bits, which is why I was trying to understand the reason for a delay. Network saturation makes no sense, since it's clear that other eco system can handle a release day over the same networks. Testing makes no sense, since Google tests their bits before giving it to carriers. If the carriers want to integrate other bits for other devices, fine, but why delay Nexus updates for that reason?
To be fair, his problem with DSL was caused by physics, not the government.