Are you suggesting that a small "x" button in the same location relative to
a moveable window (ok, those with small, lower resolution monitors may maximize
the browser leaving the window in the same position at all times) will lead to
muscle memory allowing the user to close a tab reflexively using only a mouse?
Or perhaps it's on less decision in the "close-a-tab" task execution? If so,
why should I believe that? One-click, two-click, red-click, blue-click. Who
wins, dubious muscle memory advantages or the ability to manipulate screen
objects at my own pace?
Is there an easy way to find which one you need? I was under the impression
that most of the US was covered by a single band, but that a few areas did use
the other one; since I move around a bit, I thought better safe than sorry. It
isn't all that hard to find a cheap dual-band phone that's been unlocked, which
is what I should have done rather than purchasing a never-been-locked
phone, but it requires some research.
I did this. I bought an unlocked GSM phone and moved my SIM card to it.
Worked fine, but was quite expensive and required some research to get the
proper North American dual band phone (tri-bands with two European bands and
one of the two North American bands are much more common and typically sold as
"world phones"). Try convincing your friends (the ones who haven't lived in
Europe long enough to buy a cell phone there) that this is the way to go when
they get a new phone "for free" every few years. (Indeed, one of the big
reasons I finally did it was that my locked phone broke a month out of warranty
with seven months left on my stupid contract. I'm currently trying pre-paid +
VoIP.) So, yes, it won't happen due to the will of the general public.
Re:How about the free software aspect?
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Marketing Mozilla
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Even if people might care about the freedom aspect, a typical Firefox
install asks the user to agree to some license terms before installing. This
may be the fault of whatever Windows installer Firefox is using, but it annoys
me to no end. One of the "four freedoms" is the freedom to *use* the software
for any purpose, and no agreeing to any license terms is required.
DRM may not be bad in and of itself, but DRM backed by the DMCA certainly is bad as it allows copyright owners to circumvent copyright law, so carefully balanced (HA!) to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by completely dictating what can and cannot be done and with no apparent mechanism to revert to the public domain.
Could someone explain with concrete examples what it is that makes Keynote superior to PowerPoint? The impression I get from Tufte isn't so much that PowerPoint itself is bad, but that low resolution, temporally separate decks of slides are bad. True, PowerPoint is heavily biased toward the bulleted list, but other than that I cannot see how Keynote can be much different, though I have never used Keynote.
I do it too. What's more difficult, an extra click, or a decision on which
box to type in? And there are other cases where my cursor is in the search
box, so clicking to the URL box and then typing is the same as typing and then
clicking the search result...
The license restricts use? So it's now an unenforceable EULA and no longer
a mere copyright license? How exactly does the end user indicate agreement to
be bound by the terms of the EULA? The article doesn't make this clear...
If spammers are just scamming their customers with full knowledge that the spam will not increase product sales, then what is the incentive to actually send out the spam messages rather than simply lie to the customer? Can one take a spammer to court and claim "this man promised to send 2 million unsolicited emails on my behalf but failed to do so; I demand a refund!" Seems difficult to proved one way or the other if the spam services are even legal.
Poppycock. As someone mentioned earlier, we can't even count votes to a resolution of one vote. Your single vote cannot affect the election in any way. Rationally speaking, voting is a waste of time. Attempting to convice others to vote in the way you wish may not be a waste of time if you can influence a large enough group. Perhaps this is what you are trying to do. Personally, I wish we used a sane voting technique that didn't encourage people to vote for candidates they despise (e.g. Condorcet Ranked-Pairs or Approval Voting).
don't give someone with an econ degree a lecture on econ Way to argue from authority my friend. Question: the extra wages a business is required to pay its workers come out of its profits. Raise minimum wage, decrease profits, all else being equal. Workers now have more to spend (or save), but any extra earned by a business is just going toward offsetting the aforementioned reduction in profits. The workers have more to spend; demand curve shifts to the right; prices rise; revenues increase. If the workers save any of their extra wages, then the business won't completely recover its loss of profits. Some businesses may now be operating at a loss and go out of business; supply curve shifts to the left; prices rise to a level to sustain the remaining businesses, but new firms won't enter the market. Workers' savings can be loaned out by a bank to new businesses, but since prices have gone up they are saving less. Everything remains the same, only now the worker makes $8 and spends $8 instead of making $7 and spending $7. Please poke holes in the above or explain your theory or point me in the right direction; I'm interested in learning. I know I've simplified, but have I oversimplified? How do producers of goods with price inelastic goods fare versus producers of luxury goods? The businesses that didn't survive must have gone on to other markets which moves the supply curve in those markets? Thanks.
The Open Source movement makes the case that source code leads to many eyes
reducing bugs, stronger communities, and do other things that might be
appealing to a business. Free Software on the other hand, according to
Stallman and his GPL and FSF, has always been about ensuring the four freedoms for the
software end user. If you or Linus are not interested in these four
freedoms, political or philosophical as they may be, then you should not
license your software under the GPL "version 2 or any later version". Read up
on it; make your choice. But don't complain when the FSF attempts to modify
their license to maintain these freedoms, for the FSF has never claimed to do
otherwise.
Can the savvy author not be expected to have the wit to know that simply
expanding the acronym would reduce needless reduncancy and eliminate the waste
of time and bandwidth of asking thousands of slashdotters to search Google or
Wikipedia? My sense of thoughtfulness (ST) suggests that a foremost unfolding
of acronyms (FUA) leads to a more sage sophistry (SS). In other words,
STFUASS.
Indeed. For example, the Ask E. T.
discussion board contains all topics on a single page. The topics are all
related to information design, and the board no longer accepts new topics which
certainly skews things a bit. But I routinley see new responses to topics that
are years old, and I myself occasionally read a new topic that was first posted
years ago. It isn't "news" per se, but it's an interesting take on a
discussion board. I wonder what a slashdot-like site would be like that
limited the number of topics (for example, today's MRAM article could be a new
post in the MRAM topic), did not allow users to publish any comments with
reckless abandon (i.e. had editors that pre-filtered comments), and encouraged
longer, well thought out discussion to "when's the next story?".
Are you sure you're not thinking of OpenNIC? I also tried to use them
once but had many problems and didn't really like the seemingly endless supply
of pointless top level domains.
I offer one example of a niche market site that in my experience is vastly more popular than eBay: Bricklink, fixed price and auction-type sales of Lego bricks down to the individual brick.
Re:I wonder where you approach the limit.....
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The Physics of Superman
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I recently read Human Acclimatization and Adaptation to Stresses. The article explains, unsurprisingly in retrospect, that altitude training has different effects on different people. Some are helped, some remain the same or worsen. But the majority of athletic improvement should be attributed to the other big condition of a high altitude camp: the absence of stresses of normal life. The article also suggested that an athlete often ends up unintentionally training less intensley due do the difficulties of low oxygen. Upon returning to sea level, the athlete is well rested not from any changes due to low oxygen but due to the unintentional taper, and thus improves performance. Another interesting fact mentioned was "with elite athletes, training effects are so specific that there is no beneficial carry-over of circulatory improvements in one activity to another". For example, improvements in running do not translate to improvements in cycling; I'm interested in a more in-depth explanation of that phenomenon.
I've heard that garlic is a natural mosquito repellant (seems to repel many
bugs such as ants and cockroaches). I've read that spraying one's self with a
garlic tea works, or even eating a clove of garlic (not sure how long before
mosquito exposure). Does this have any affect on super mosquitos of the
northern midwest? And how bad does a garlic spray smell? Mosquito
repellants
Perhaps I overstated the condescencion. It's probably more my own desire to fit in and do what the rest of the herd does (drive); though I was made fun of once by a car full of 16-18 year olds (my guess anyway) who no doubt believe cycling to work is a detterent in trying to get a date...
My particular city, Albuquerque, New Mexico, population ~700,000, is fairly bicycle friendly, having a number of streets with an extra bike lane and bike racks on the city buses. I am lucky enough to commute to work along low traffic roads and a paved dedicated walking and biking path, so I don't ride in the bike lanes much, but I'm not sure how safe I'd feel doing so. I can't speak for the average city, but I've read that Albuquerque ranks highly on lists of bicycle friendly cities, however, Albuquerque consists largely of a grid of four to six lane roads flanked by parking lots and large shopping centers, clearly designed around the car. Downtown Chicago, for comparison, lacks bicycle lanes that I know of; I've seen a few bicycle couriers riding in the streets, and there were talks a few years ago about closing the densest downtown area to cars (which has not been done unfortunately). Within the city the streets tend to be narrow with modest speed limits for cars and are lined with smaller and more densely packed shops. The town in which I grew up (pop ~30,000) had no special provisions for cyclists, and I would not feel safe biking to any of the various jobs I've held there. It had a small downtown, but all the shops there moved to the mall located out of town which would be dangerous to get to via bicycle.
I don't know much about zoning laws, but I'm guessing they enforce the separation of shops from residencies known as "suburbia" here in the States. I don't quite get who makes these decisions or what the big attraction to suburbia is...
I think a big part of it is social stigma. I had considered biking to work before, but didn't really take the plunge until after a move when my new cycling enthusiast neighbor suggested it. My commute is about six miles and five or ten minutes slower than by car; I'm lucky to live close and have a low traffic route to work. I'm also lucky to have a shower and a locker at work, and the weather here is fairly nice year round (summers are a cool 70 in the morning even if 85-95 by midday; winters don't often dip below 15 degF; snow is rare). Aside from all the technical aspects in my favor, I get the feeling that bicycle commuters are a bit odd. I don't feel any animosity from others, but I do feel a little "oh, you're one of *those* people" (well, occasionally immature-types have yelled insults from their cars, but this is fairly rare). Also the bicycle commuters themselves can often be offputting. Our corporate website includes a cycling section written by bike commuters, and one of the first tips is "What to wear: or why jeans are a bad idea" which goes on to suggest the traditional tight-fitting cycling gear that professional racers wear, yet fails to explain exactly why jeans are bad. Chaffing is the reason I assume, but I personally commute in jeans with no problems. The website caters to the "cool kids" or fairly hardcore bikers with expensive road bikesand gear and not more casual cyclists such as myself. I'm hoping to help improve this somewhat during my tenure as employee, but who knows how many people it has put off?
So how many cameras can it block simultaneously? At some point you'll
saturate the device. Maybe all those fancy hummers are finally
good for something: hauling batteries and generators to block digital cameras.
Or they'll just revert to film, or some type of sensor that can avoid
detection.
My friends tell me Antarctica gets ignored because it has no people. I
don't understand the reasons behind any continental divisions, but the familiar
seven continents, other than the Europe-Asia distinction, seem to follow major
tectonic plates. I assume other divisions are more population or cultural
based, although Europe's conquest of North America seems to have mostly
squashed the previous indigenous population while things are more intermixed in
South America. Though the CIA World Factbook states "Not until 1840
was it established that Antarctica was indeed a continent and not just a group
of islands." That may explain its omission by some cultures' count. I
think I've exposed my ignorance too much already, so I won't say any more.
Slashdot Mirror
Are you suggesting that a small "x" button in the same location relative to a moveable window (ok, those with small, lower resolution monitors may maximize the browser leaving the window in the same position at all times) will lead to muscle memory allowing the user to close a tab reflexively using only a mouse? Or perhaps it's on less decision in the "close-a-tab" task execution? If so, why should I believe that? One-click, two-click, red-click, blue-click. Who wins, dubious muscle memory advantages or the ability to manipulate screen objects at my own pace?
Is there an easy way to find which one you need? I was under the impression that most of the US was covered by a single band, but that a few areas did use the other one; since I move around a bit, I thought better safe than sorry. It isn't all that hard to find a cheap dual-band phone that's been unlocked, which is what I should have done rather than purchasing a never-been-locked phone, but it requires some research.
I did this. I bought an unlocked GSM phone and moved my SIM card to it. Worked fine, but was quite expensive and required some research to get the proper North American dual band phone (tri-bands with two European bands and one of the two North American bands are much more common and typically sold as "world phones"). Try convincing your friends (the ones who haven't lived in Europe long enough to buy a cell phone there) that this is the way to go when they get a new phone "for free" every few years. (Indeed, one of the big reasons I finally did it was that my locked phone broke a month out of warranty with seven months left on my stupid contract. I'm currently trying pre-paid + VoIP.) So, yes, it won't happen due to the will of the general public.
Even if people might care about the freedom aspect, a typical Firefox install asks the user to agree to some license terms before installing. This may be the fault of whatever Windows installer Firefox is using, but it annoys me to no end. One of the "four freedoms" is the freedom to *use* the software for any purpose, and no agreeing to any license terms is required.
DRM may not be bad in and of itself, but DRM backed by the DMCA certainly is bad as it allows copyright owners to circumvent copyright law, so carefully balanced (HA!) to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by completely dictating what can and cannot be done and with no apparent mechanism to revert to the public domain.
Could someone explain with concrete examples what it is that makes Keynote superior to PowerPoint? The impression I get from Tufte isn't so much that PowerPoint itself is bad, but that low resolution, temporally separate decks of slides are bad. True, PowerPoint is heavily biased toward the bulleted list, but other than that I cannot see how Keynote can be much different, though I have never used Keynote.
What ever happened to algae that can be grown in salt water? Or does controlling the salt concentration require similar levels of water?
I do it too. What's more difficult, an extra click, or a decision on which box to type in? And there are other cases where my cursor is in the search box, so clicking to the URL box and then typing is the same as typing and then clicking the search result...
The license restricts use? So it's now an unenforceable EULA and no longer a mere copyright license? How exactly does the end user indicate agreement to be bound by the terms of the EULA? The article doesn't make this clear...
If spammers are just scamming their customers with full knowledge that the spam will not increase product sales, then what is the incentive to actually send out the spam messages rather than simply lie to the customer? Can one take a spammer to court and claim "this man promised to send 2 million unsolicited emails on my behalf but failed to do so; I demand a refund!" Seems difficult to proved one way or the other if the spam services are even legal.
I think complaining to the police about children playing in a tree should be considered "anti-social"...
Poppycock. As someone mentioned earlier, we can't even count votes to a resolution of one vote. Your single vote cannot affect the election in any way. Rationally speaking, voting is a waste of time. Attempting to convice others to vote in the way you wish may not be a waste of time if you can influence a large enough group. Perhaps this is what you are trying to do. Personally, I wish we used a sane voting technique that didn't encourage people to vote for candidates they despise (e.g. Condorcet Ranked-Pairs or Approval Voting).
don't give someone with an econ degree a lecture on econ Way to argue from authority my friend. Question: the extra wages a business is required to pay its workers come out of its profits. Raise minimum wage, decrease profits, all else being equal. Workers now have more to spend (or save), but any extra earned by a business is just going toward offsetting the aforementioned reduction in profits. The workers have more to spend; demand curve shifts to the right; prices rise; revenues increase. If the workers save any of their extra wages, then the business won't completely recover its loss of profits. Some businesses may now be operating at a loss and go out of business; supply curve shifts to the left; prices rise to a level to sustain the remaining businesses, but new firms won't enter the market. Workers' savings can be loaned out by a bank to new businesses, but since prices have gone up they are saving less. Everything remains the same, only now the worker makes $8 and spends $8 instead of making $7 and spending $7. Please poke holes in the above or explain your theory or point me in the right direction; I'm interested in learning. I know I've simplified, but have I oversimplified? How do producers of goods with price inelastic goods fare versus producers of luxury goods? The businesses that didn't survive must have gone on to other markets which moves the supply curve in those markets? Thanks.
The Open Source movement makes the case that source code leads to many eyes reducing bugs, stronger communities, and do other things that might be appealing to a business. Free Software on the other hand, according to Stallman and his GPL and FSF, has always been about ensuring the four freedoms for the software end user. If you or Linus are not interested in these four freedoms, political or philosophical as they may be, then you should not license your software under the GPL "version 2 or any later version". Read up on it; make your choice. But don't complain when the FSF attempts to modify their license to maintain these freedoms, for the FSF has never claimed to do otherwise.
Can the savvy author not be expected to have the wit to know that simply expanding the acronym would reduce needless reduncancy and eliminate the waste of time and bandwidth of asking thousands of slashdotters to search Google or Wikipedia? My sense of thoughtfulness (ST) suggests that a foremost unfolding of acronyms (FUA) leads to a more sage sophistry (SS). In other words, STFUASS.
Yet the fact remains that the drivers are not "free", and regardless of the excuses I'll happily take my dollars elsewhere.
Indeed. For example, the Ask E. T. discussion board contains all topics on a single page. The topics are all related to information design, and the board no longer accepts new topics which certainly skews things a bit. But I routinley see new responses to topics that are years old, and I myself occasionally read a new topic that was first posted years ago. It isn't "news" per se, but it's an interesting take on a discussion board. I wonder what a slashdot-like site would be like that limited the number of topics (for example, today's MRAM article could be a new post in the MRAM topic), did not allow users to publish any comments with reckless abandon (i.e. had editors that pre-filtered comments), and encouraged longer, well thought out discussion to "when's the next story?".
Are you sure you're not thinking of OpenNIC? I also tried to use them once but had many problems and didn't really like the seemingly endless supply of pointless top level domains.
I offer one example of a niche market site that in my experience is vastly more popular than eBay: Bricklink, fixed price and auction-type sales of Lego bricks down to the individual brick.
I recently read Human Acclimatization and Adaptation to Stresses. The article explains, unsurprisingly in retrospect, that altitude training has different effects on different people. Some are helped, some remain the same or worsen. But the majority of athletic improvement should be attributed to the other big condition of a high altitude camp: the absence of stresses of normal life. The article also suggested that an athlete often ends up unintentionally training less intensley due do the difficulties of low oxygen. Upon returning to sea level, the athlete is well rested not from any changes due to low oxygen but due to the unintentional taper, and thus improves performance. Another interesting fact mentioned was "with elite athletes, training effects are so specific that there is no beneficial carry-over of circulatory improvements in one activity to another". For example, improvements in running do not translate to improvements in cycling; I'm interested in a more in-depth explanation of that phenomenon.
I've heard that garlic is a natural mosquito repellant (seems to repel many bugs such as ants and cockroaches). I've read that spraying one's self with a garlic tea works, or even eating a clove of garlic (not sure how long before mosquito exposure). Does this have any affect on super mosquitos of the northern midwest? And how bad does a garlic spray smell? Mosquito repellants
Perhaps I overstated the condescencion. It's probably more my own desire to fit in and do what the rest of the herd does (drive); though I was made fun of once by a car full of 16-18 year olds (my guess anyway) who no doubt believe cycling to work is a detterent in trying to get a date...
My particular city, Albuquerque, New Mexico, population ~700,000, is fairly bicycle friendly, having a number of streets with an extra bike lane and bike racks on the city buses. I am lucky enough to commute to work along low traffic roads and a paved dedicated walking and biking path, so I don't ride in the bike lanes much, but I'm not sure how safe I'd feel doing so. I can't speak for the average city, but I've read that Albuquerque ranks highly on lists of bicycle friendly cities, however, Albuquerque consists largely of a grid of four to six lane roads flanked by parking lots and large shopping centers, clearly designed around the car. Downtown Chicago, for comparison, lacks bicycle lanes that I know of; I've seen a few bicycle couriers riding in the streets, and there were talks a few years ago about closing the densest downtown area to cars (which has not been done unfortunately). Within the city the streets tend to be narrow with modest speed limits for cars and are lined with smaller and more densely packed shops. The town in which I grew up (pop ~30,000) had no special provisions for cyclists, and I would not feel safe biking to any of the various jobs I've held there. It had a small downtown, but all the shops there moved to the mall located out of town which would be dangerous to get to via bicycle.
I don't know much about zoning laws, but I'm guessing they enforce the separation of shops from residencies known as "suburbia" here in the States. I don't quite get who makes these decisions or what the big attraction to suburbia is...
I think a big part of it is social stigma. I had considered biking to work before, but didn't really take the plunge until after a move when my new cycling enthusiast neighbor suggested it. My commute is about six miles and five or ten minutes slower than by car; I'm lucky to live close and have a low traffic route to work. I'm also lucky to have a shower and a locker at work, and the weather here is fairly nice year round (summers are a cool 70 in the morning even if 85-95 by midday; winters don't often dip below 15 degF; snow is rare). Aside from all the technical aspects in my favor, I get the feeling that bicycle commuters are a bit odd. I don't feel any animosity from others, but I do feel a little "oh, you're one of *those* people" (well, occasionally immature-types have yelled insults from their cars, but this is fairly rare). Also the bicycle commuters themselves can often be offputting. Our corporate website includes a cycling section written by bike commuters, and one of the first tips is "What to wear: or why jeans are a bad idea" which goes on to suggest the traditional tight-fitting cycling gear that professional racers wear, yet fails to explain exactly why jeans are bad. Chaffing is the reason I assume, but I personally commute in jeans with no problems. The website caters to the "cool kids" or fairly hardcore bikers with expensive road bikesand gear and not more casual cyclists such as myself. I'm hoping to help improve this somewhat during my tenure as employee, but who knows how many people it has put off?
So how many cameras can it block simultaneously? At some point you'll saturate the device. Maybe all those fancy hummers are finally good for something: hauling batteries and generators to block digital cameras. Or they'll just revert to film, or some type of sensor that can avoid detection.
My friends tell me Antarctica gets ignored because it has no people. I don't understand the reasons behind any continental divisions, but the familiar seven continents, other than the Europe-Asia distinction, seem to follow major tectonic plates. I assume other divisions are more population or cultural based, although Europe's conquest of North America seems to have mostly squashed the previous indigenous population while things are more intermixed in South America. Though the CIA World Factbook states "Not until 1840 was it established that Antarctica was indeed a continent and not just a group of islands." That may explain its omission by some cultures' count. I think I've exposed my ignorance too much already, so I won't say any more.