He's actually making the decision using a fairly reliable algorithm: repeat what has worked in the past.
The trouble comes in when managers believe something worked if you eventually reached your intended destination, regardless of what happened in the middle.
You can deliver a gigabyte of data from one coast to the other on 9-track magnetic tape in a rusty VW bus that belches smoke from its exhasut, but there are a spectrum of faster, more efficient ways of meeting that goal.
(I'm not slamming any languages here, just pointing out that whether something "worked" is sometimes subjective and misleading.)
You have to click the section headers (don't click the Vendors link). It doesn't give you a very good indication that there's any sort of functionality hooked into those headers.
To many, this is an indication of bad design. (See affordance.)
Of course, the "bad" in this case refers to usability for new users, not to the visual appeal of the page. The former often takes a second seat to the latter.
That destroys the formatting and makes your work look very unprofessional. There are better ways to redact information from a PDF.
Since PDF is basically Postscript, when something adds bars to the PDF, couldn't any thus-obscured text glyphs be simply removed from the document? This shouldn't be rocket science.
Why not just store *encrypted* data on it? My hard disk doesn't support encryption, but I can store encrypted files (even partitions) on it nonetheless.
When you're talking about authentication tokens, this does absolutely ZERO to block a replay attack.
Not at all. I think the real point is that we shouldn't start wiping out our civil liberties and decreasing the checks on our government in pursuit of that goal.
Right.
China has a bad reputation when it comes to civil liberties and suppressing dissent, yet they don't appear to have a significant terrorist problem. Should we emulate them?
ASSUME the user is going to do unwise things, and design around that assumption.
What, and Unix-like operating systems have been designed around users doing unwise things? rm and dd can do some pretty catastrophic things if you're not careful.
Is there any postulate that says we can observe them all if they exist?
A simple counter-example from observation might be the fact that we can't observe a particular coordinate in 3-space in any other time-coordinate than "the present".
One of the top 10 USAn commercials of all time (according to a USA Today poll, anyway) rags on competitors' attributes and claims the advertised product is better. How is this fundamentally different than what Apple's doing?
The inclusion of Bill Gates' 1977 arrest photo and 1983 Teen Beat photo in the images being viewed and edited were the best parts. That, and the Windows bluescreen that briefly appears.
this is the funniest fucking post ever... EVAR! i just about lost it when i read Apple Should Buy Apple
It's insightful if you consider the recently-resurrected trademark troubles between Apple Corps and Apple Computer. If one should buy the other, the trademark problems would probably vanish.
The second point is that the person starting the guild is upset because blizzard pointed out the fact that they are discriminating. Having a group that only allows members that are not gay, bi, or lesbian is equally as discriminating as having a group that explicitly denies members that are gay, bi, or lesbian.
Discriminating potential members based on their in-game personas makes sense. Not sure how WoW groups classes, but a priesthood guild in a D&D style game surely shouldn't be penalized for excluding axe-wielding barbarians or other characters antithetical to their order. An amazon guild shouldn't be penalized for exclusing males.
Having an in-game persona that includes homosexuality (or even heterosexuality) implies that sexuality is part of the game. Since the game is supposed to be family-friendly, this would seem to exclude in-game sexual preference.
Also, Blizzard might want to restrict in-game experiences to themes that immerse the player into the game, so using external political topics into the game would seem to be inappropriate. However, by that same rationale, they should be more picky about the language their players use. Modern slang--"n00b", "gay", "f*ck", et al.--would seem to be inconsistent with that theme.
IBM didn't want [MSDOS] and licensed it instead. It was probably a good thing, considering that IBM has never figured out how to market personal computers. It could have killed the PC market before it ever formed.
DOS clones sprouted even with a non-IBM company controlling DOS. They might have been even more popular if that hadn't been true, since I think the availability of well-marketed clones was probably more influential than the third-party OS in the PC revolution. (I suppose it could be argued that the clones wouldn't have shown up in such numbers if they didn't have a third-party OS they could easily apply to their IBM-compatible hardware.)
So, despite the fact that I pay for an unlisted number, I get an answering machine full of "beep-beep-beep" every fucking day. I've been woken up at 2am by these people, too. The phone company won't do a damned thing about it other than try to sell me new services. And now the gov't has just opened the sewer to make it 1000% worse.
Prior to dumping our landline for mobile-only lines, we found a TeleZapper(tm) appeared to work with these as well as with the telemarketers.
Human history has been disappearing for as long as it's been happening. The records of the past are always subject to the ravages of time. Carved rocks break or weather. Various forms of paper burn, blows away, rot.
I honestly don't think our digital media is any more or less tenuous than the rest. In fact, we're probably recording vastly more data than we ever did before. We could stand to lose quite a bit higher percentage of recorded data now and still break even, I would guess. What's probably going to be a bigger problem, as pointed out by another poster, is how historians will dig through all the archived crap out there.
(This reminds me of Vernor Vinge's take on this subject in A Fire Upon the Deep, where archives from various civilizations were scattered around the galaxy (at least outside the Slow Zone) with massive stores of data: history, knowledge bases, net postings, porn (my assumption), and other things.)
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He's actually making the decision using a fairly reliable algorithm: repeat what has worked in the past.
The trouble comes in when managers believe something worked if you eventually reached your intended destination, regardless of what happened in the middle.
You can deliver a gigabyte of data from one coast to the other on 9-track magnetic tape in a rusty VW bus that belches smoke from its exhasut, but there are a spectrum of faster, more efficient ways of meeting that goal.
(I'm not slamming any languages here, just pointing out that whether something "worked" is sometimes subjective and misleading.)
You have to click the section headers (don't click the Vendors link). It doesn't give you a very good indication that there's any sort of functionality hooked into those headers.
To many, this is an indication of bad design. (See affordance.)
Of course, the "bad" in this case refers to usability for new users, not to the visual appeal of the page. The former often takes a second seat to the latter.
That destroys the formatting and makes your work look very unprofessional. There are better ways to redact information from a PDF.
Since PDF is basically Postscript, when something adds bars to the PDF, couldn't any thus-obscured text glyphs be simply removed from the document? This shouldn't be rocket science.
"XML: They call it portable, we call it SLOW."
An enemy near enough to see two tiny camera pinholes in front of a cloaked M1 Abrams from the future should make his peace with God immediately.
Gee, what's that shimmer over there that sounds like a 110 db tank engine?
Why not just store *encrypted* data on it? My hard disk doesn't support encryption, but I can store encrypted files (even partitions) on it nonetheless.
When you're talking about authentication tokens, this does absolutely ZERO to block a replay attack.
Not at all. I think the real point is that we shouldn't start wiping out our civil liberties and decreasing the checks on our government in pursuit of that goal.
Right.
China has a bad reputation when it comes to civil liberties and suppressing dissent, yet they don't appear to have a significant terrorist problem. Should we emulate them?
You might as well just elect a king.
Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government.
ASSUME the user is going to do unwise things, and design around that assumption.
What, and Unix-like operating systems have been designed around users doing unwise things? rm and dd can do some pretty catastrophic things if you're not careful.
Representation of time as a physical, dimensional axis is convenient, mathematically, but does not mean it actually exists as such.
And if higher dimensions are similar, we'll have as much difficulty in actually observing them.
Is there any postulate that says we can observe them all if they exist?
A simple counter-example from observation might be the fact that we can't observe a particular coordinate in 3-space in any other time-coordinate than "the present".
One of the top 10 USAn commercials of all time (according to a USA Today poll, anyway) rags on competitors' attributes and claims the advertised product is better. How is this fundamentally different than what Apple's doing?
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The inclusion of Bill Gates' 1977 arrest photo and 1983 Teen Beat photo in the images being viewed and edited were the best parts. That, and the Windows bluescreen that briefly appears.
Nope, you don't have anything confused. Adblock already has that feature, as you've said.
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this is the funniest fucking post ever ... EVAR! i just about lost it when i read Apple Should Buy Apple
It's insightful if you consider the recently-resurrected trademark troubles between Apple Corps and Apple Computer. If one should buy the other, the trademark problems would probably vanish.
Better at what? Because [Opera] certainly is NOT better at rendering HTML...
Which do you mean, standard HTML/CSS or HTML hand-tweaked to look good in a browser with less than stellar support for the standards?
The second point is that the person starting the guild is upset because blizzard pointed out the fact that they are discriminating. Having a group that only allows members that are not gay, bi, or lesbian is equally as discriminating as having a group that explicitly denies members that are gay, bi, or lesbian.
Discriminating potential members based on their in-game personas makes sense. Not sure how WoW groups classes, but a priesthood guild in a D&D style game surely shouldn't be penalized for excluding axe-wielding barbarians or other characters antithetical to their order. An amazon guild shouldn't be penalized for exclusing males.
Having an in-game persona that includes homosexuality (or even heterosexuality) implies that sexuality is part of the game. Since the game is supposed to be family-friendly, this would seem to exclude in-game sexual preference.
Also, Blizzard might want to restrict in-game experiences to themes that immerse the player into the game, so using external political topics into the game would seem to be inappropriate. However, by that same rationale, they should be more picky about the language their players use. Modern slang--"n00b", "gay", "f*ck", et al.--would seem to be inconsistent with that theme.
It's not intrinsically sexual, any more than, say, marriage, which is seen as a perfect topic for family-friendly stuff.
As a married man, I would like to categorically object to the linking of marriage with sex.
IBM didn't want [MSDOS] and licensed it instead. It was probably a good thing, considering that IBM has never figured out how to market personal computers. It could have killed the PC market before it ever formed.
DOS clones sprouted even with a non-IBM company controlling DOS. They might have been even more popular if that hadn't been true, since I think the availability of well-marketed clones was probably more influential than the third-party OS in the PC revolution. (I suppose it could be argued that the clones wouldn't have shown up in such numbers if they didn't have a third-party OS they could easily apply to their IBM-compatible hardware.)
So, despite the fact that I pay for an unlisted number, I get an answering machine full of "beep-beep-beep" every fucking day. I've been woken up at 2am by these people, too. The phone company won't do a damned thing about it other than try to sell me new services. And now the gov't has just opened the sewer to make it 1000% worse.
Prior to dumping our landline for mobile-only lines, we found a TeleZapper(tm) appeared to work with these as well as with the telemarketers.
Lao Tzu's "The Art of War"
ITYM Sun Microtzu's "The Art of W4R3Z".
I wonder if RIM would be treading on libel lines for some of the highly-charged phrases used in this plea to Congress?
Human history has been disappearing for as long as it's been happening. The records of the past are always subject to the ravages of time. Carved rocks break or weather. Various forms of paper burn, blows away, rot.
I honestly don't think our digital media is any more or less tenuous than the rest. In fact, we're probably recording vastly more data than we ever did before. We could stand to lose quite a bit higher percentage of recorded data now and still break even, I would guess. What's probably going to be a bigger problem, as pointed out by another poster, is how historians will dig through all the archived crap out there.
(This reminds me of Vernor Vinge's take on this subject in A Fire Upon the Deep , where archives from various civilizations were scattered around the galaxy (at least outside the Slow Zone) with massive stores of data: history, knowledge bases, net postings, porn (my assumption), and other things.)
So, is finding aliens, a la Alien, sexy?
Well, there is that scene at the end where Riply gets partially undressed...