One of the neat things about automation is that it would have an amazing effect on the flow of traffic. Imagine if just 10% of the cars on the Interstates travelled at the speed limit? At first there would be more accidents as nuts try to road-rage a machine, but soon people would be forced to travel at the same speed. I think this alone would be beneficial to the traffic stats.
There's one thing that's always driven me nuts. The fact that daylight savings has little to do with energy savings and more to do with making it light on winter mornings. That's right, winter
Think about it... The equinoxes are (roughly) on September 21 and March 21. So with the new daylight savigns plan, this year sees us enter DST 10 days before the equinox and leave it 44 days after the equinox! (We now end DST ont he first Sunday in November)
People have to get the seasons out of their heads and actually think about the daylight.
The key is to stop adding to the problem. The planet will level things out over time if we give it a chance. If we actively try to fix the problem we'll be facing an ice age in a few centuries.
Yes, I said centuries. Look how quickly we started the whole global warming mess. I think we can reverse it even faster, but I doubt we're good enough to decelerate it and bring things bad to where they belong.
It's not just about getting people there and saying, "Yay, we made it." It's about trying to see if we can perform some of the manufacturing on the moon. If we can build the components for the next step in our exploration there, we can launch them that much more cheaply.
GAH!!! We hear this every time. Robots are good starts but they should not be the only approach. It's the dream of seeing yourself in that situation that makes people so excited. It's not just about the science.
Oh, and about the money being better spent on robots? Here's how the world works. If the money is taken away from manned exploration, it is NOT moved to unmanned. It's moved to HUD or VA. It is gone forever and we get nothing from it.
One of the things to have to ask yourself is: What is the ad agency advertising?
Are they advertising the product? NO! They are advertising themselves as a kickass ad agency! Look at how beautiful our ad was. Look at how many awards it won. Look at how much business it generated. Do you remember who the ad was for?
Every time I see an ad like this I think of Homer Simpson's high-brow Mr. Plow ad.
But what if the numbers to look at were arranged in advance?
You and I both agree to look at #31, 57, and 68 _then_ go and do the experiment. If theeory is correct and my sensing equipment is fast enough, I should be able to desipher your message before it is sent.
Now if there is no way of framing our information then your assertion is correct. But that also assumes that the message itself doesn't contain any framing information.
And consider various versions of movies to be the same movie. If I'm not interested in E.T., I'm not going to be interested in any of the quinannual release, the special edition, the extra special edition, the extreme edition, or the super secret special extreme mega edition which actually has guns.
While an interesting point, the caps lock key is still useful for things like THE_C_CONSTANTS and such.
What would be a far better task would be to fight to standardize the keyboard location tilde/back-tick and pipe/back-slash. Using xmodmap to standardize keyboards is ok, but it means that other people could break thing is they have to use your machine.
No kidding. I want a thorough autopsy done on that body. Too many of his heirs benefit from him being dead. This could easily be either murder or suicide. In either case the slate should not be wiped clean.
Background) I'm an Opera user from way back. In fact I'm currently typing this in Opera 3.62 which I paid for. 3.62 is fast, tight, renders ugly as sin, and the javascript doesn't work. But it is the fastest best thing I've ever used for scanning huge number of pages at once. Tabbed browsing is a gimic that steals screen space and makes me move my hands from the keyboard to the mouse.
Today) Opera has missed the boat. They may have more features and more neat and whizzy things in a tigher package than anyone else, but they don't have the few things people want. Firefox is The Way and what I use when I want anything more than raw reading capability. The delays in getting versions out shows just how dead the "We'll do all the work for you" model is.
I'm sorry guys. I'm glad I could support you when IE was free, but you're just not fast enough or extensible enough.
A lesson for everyone) If you change the UI you put me into a position where I have the learn something new. It could be new elements, new keystrokes, or removing old keystrokes that used to work. Ultimately, if I have to learn something new to use you're product, I might as well learn something new to learn a product that works a little better. People like to be comfortable. If you force them to change, don't expect them to just change a little.
11) Windows, Office, and Gaming are in different silos with their own P&L responsibility. The only time they'll integrate is when it will specifically help their bottom line.
And think about this, with Vista off the table for the Xmas season, the computer companies are going to be crying for sales. This will be especially true as Microsfot ignores them and begins cranking the hype machine.
I'm expecting below cost prices on serious horsepower machines then it's XP for me! (You don't actually expect me to install 1.0 of anything from Microsoft, now do you?
We're eternally hear about this site or that site being upset that Google or someone else links to some of their stuff. There's a simple solution...
De-list them!
The message to these sites is simple: You either have all of your content searchable or none. No picking and choosing. No letting the front page be at the top of list while everything else is accessible but hidden.
If not being in a search engine is ok with the web site, then fine. This would create economic pressure for these people to either play nice or leave. And it would also reduce the caseload in the courts.
And if you really wanted to have fun, you could always threaten to de-list anyone who links to those sites. Talk about pressure.
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Web designers: Bugger off!!! We don't give a damn what the site looks like, it's the content that's important. Font's and Flash and Javascript all distract from what is truly important about the web: content
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One of the neat things about automation is that it would have an amazing effect on the flow of traffic. Imagine if just 10% of the cars on the Interstates travelled at the speed limit? At first there would be more accidents as nuts try to road-rage a machine, but soon people would be forced to travel at the same speed. I think this alone would be beneficial to the traffic stats.
There's one thing that's always driven me nuts. The fact that daylight savings has little to do with energy savings and more to do with making it light on winter mornings. That's right, winter
Think about it... The equinoxes are (roughly) on September 21 and March 21. So with the new daylight savigns plan, this year sees us enter DST 10 days before the equinox and leave it 44 days after the equinox! (We now end DST ont he first Sunday in November)
People have to get the seasons out of their heads and actually think about the daylight.
And what happens when all of those people tell the people with no clue that they will be getting ZERO free tech support if they upgrade?
Gee, pity we don't have a human nearby to fix things. Oh, but that's right... robots can do everything better than people.
Yes, I said centuries. Look how quickly we started the whole global warming mess. I think we can reverse it even faster, but I doubt we're good enough to decelerate it and bring things bad to where they belong.
Oh... right... manned exploration is a waste of money and robots are all we ever need.
It's not just about getting people there and saying, "Yay, we made it." It's about trying to see if we can perform some of the manufacturing on the moon. If we can build the components for the next step in our exploration there, we can launch them that much more cheaply.
Oh, and about the money being better spent on robots? Here's how the world works. If the money is taken away from manned exploration, it is NOT moved to unmanned. It's moved to HUD or VA. It is gone forever and we get nothing from it.
Are they advertising the product? NO! They are advertising themselves as a kickass ad agency! Look at how beautiful our ad was. Look at how many awards it won. Look at how much business it generated. Do you remember who the ad was for?
Every time I see an ad like this I think of Homer Simpson's high-brow Mr. Plow ad.
Marge: Was that your ad?
Homer: I... don't... know.
You and I both agree to look at #31, 57, and 68 _then_ go and do the experiment. If theeory is correct and my sensing equipment is fast enough, I should be able to desipher your message before it is sent.
Now if there is no way of framing our information then your assertion is correct. But that also assumes that the message itself doesn't contain any framing information.
And consider various versions of movies to be the same movie. If I'm not interested in E.T., I'm not going to be interested in any of the quinannual release, the special edition, the extra special edition, the extreme edition, or the super secret special extreme mega edition which actually has guns.
What would be a far better task would be to fight to standardize the keyboard location tilde/back-tick and pipe/back-slash. Using xmodmap to standardize keyboards is ok, but it means that other people could break thing is they have to use your machine.
*cough*RIAA*cough*
vxWorks was approved for Formula 1 about 4 years ago. I wonder if this will replace it or be working on different systems.
No kidding. I want a thorough autopsy done on that body. Too many of his heirs benefit from him being dead. This could easily be either murder or suicide. In either case the slate should not be wiped clean.
Apollo: 12 missions, 2 (Apollo 1&13) major failures (17%), 3 out 36 dead (8%)
Shuttle: 114 missions, 2 major failures (2%), 14 out of 683 dead (2%)
The only difference is that Apollo managed to have survivors from one of its major failures.
Today) Opera has missed the boat. They may have more features and more neat and whizzy things in a tigher package than anyone else, but they don't have the few things people want. Firefox is The Way and what I use when I want anything more than raw reading capability. The delays in getting versions out shows just how dead the "We'll do all the work for you" model is.
I'm sorry guys. I'm glad I could support you when IE was free, but you're just not fast enough or extensible enough.
A lesson for everyone) If you change the UI you put me into a position where I have the learn something new. It could be new elements, new keystrokes, or removing old keystrokes that used to work. Ultimately, if I have to learn something new to use you're product, I might as well learn something new to learn a product that works a little better. People like to be comfortable. If you force them to change, don't expect them to just change a little.
11) Windows, Office, and Gaming are in different silos with their own P&L responsibility. The only time they'll integrate is when it will specifically help their bottom line.
And think about this, with Vista off the table for the Xmas season, the computer companies are going to be crying for sales. This will be especially true as Microsfot ignores them and begins cranking the hype machine.
I'm expecting below cost prices on serious horsepower machines then it's XP for me! (You don't actually expect me to install 1.0 of anything from Microsoft, now do you?
De-list them!
The message to these sites is simple: You either have all of your content searchable or none. No picking and choosing. No letting the front page be at the top of list while everything else is accessible but hidden.
If not being in a search engine is ok with the web site, then fine. This would create economic pressure for these people to either play nice or leave. And it would also reduce the caseload in the courts.
And if you really wanted to have fun, you could always threaten to de-list anyone who links to those sites. Talk about pressure.
This been around since the 1992-1993 timeframe. I originally read that exchange back on usenet. You remember usenet don't you?
True, but according to the Lorentz Transformation, the one who goes the fastest gets there the youngest! So there is a winner.
We've got meta moderation, why not story moderation? Why not have the concept of Poster Karma?
If you post too much crap then you lose linking privs until you staighten out. post even more crap and you don't even get your name on the post.
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Web designers: Bugger off!!! We don't give a damn what the site looks like, it's the content that's important. Font's and Flash and Javascript all distract from what is truly important about the web: content