[Unity] has raised the bar for usability on the Linux desktop.
My girlfriend would disagree. We run Unity on the netbook and she's continually asking where some random window has disappeared to and why she can't find the menu bar.
Unity made some useful changes for small screen devices like the netbook, but overall it's a disaster for Linux usability. Now I'm running XFCE on my laptop I'll probably switch the netbook over to it as well.
Most people that have been using computers dislike Unity. Your girlfriend is with most of the rest of the computing world.
Err, wait that came out wrong. Unity was supposed to be targeted at a more general computing audience but is missing the mark. What I mean is that Mark Shuttleworth wants to get with your girlfriend.
The alternative is deep packet inspection, on the fly ad replacement by your ISP, and some legalese in your contract with the ISP that forces you to not suppress those ISP-injected ads. The technology has been demonstrated. It's a question of when they'll get serious about it.
I swear an ISP tried doing the ad replacement thing, but were sued out of doing it by advertisers. But more on the point, unless the advertisers were willing to pony up a huge amount of cash to the ISPs to cover the technology and expense of packet inspection plus the cost of lost customers that just up and leave the moment they hear about forced advertisements.... I don't see why the ISPs would bother lifting a finger in this realm.
I consider myself to be doing my ISP a favor. I am saving them the bandwidth of downloading so many advertisements.
Advertising is always obnoxious no matter how subtle it's done.
Really?
I own a small movie theatre and advertise what's playing and what's coming with a webpage and an email mailing list.
People actively seek out and view the webpage hundreds of times per day, and I have a fair number of people who have signed up to receive automatic notifications of what's playing when I have a confirmed booking for a new movie.
I don't think that my advertising is "obnoxious", since it's information that people are actually searching for and obviously want to receive.
Your page is not obnoxious because it is not advertising, you are providing an opt-in notification of services. Obviously your page is a combination of informative and easy to look at if people are seeking you out. If people are seeking you out for your info it is something desired. If you manage to sell them on other movies aside from the info they were looking for, good for you. If someone obnoxious advertisement all over the internet in blinking popup flash animated advertisements... it is obnoxious.
People subscribe to product mailing lists and visit the websites of things they are interested in.
Advertising is pushing info to people that are most likely not interested, therefore causing them to push it in the most obnoxious way possible in order to gather attention. Advertising is a mailbox full of dead trees that go immediately to the bin without a second look. Advertising is blinking annoying popup ads, and click through links to find content. Advertising is loud chatter on the radio. Advertising is giant lit-up eyesores lining our highways.
Anti-intellectualism has been carted around by the knuckle draggers for centuries, even if they lack the vocabulary to discuss it in these terms.
Just be glad that parents aren't contributing to the bullying to the same degree as we've seen in the past. How many fathers in the 50s, 60s and 70s wanted their sons to grow up to be sport stars, only to be disappointed when Junior has an aptitude for mathematics or a young boy's interest in entomology? This sort of family dynamic has been parodied numerous times in movies, but it was (and is) still quite real.
It's one thing to have your peers plot against you and torment you. It's another when your mentors and family join in the abuse. Although saying "it could be worse" doesn't really help the kids getting bullied. Perspective is not really all that valuable when you need an immediate solution to end your torment. But maybe the people who are trying to solve the situation need to realize they are trying to solve a very old social problem. I would even venture to call it a disease, or perhaps a blight.
Consider the degree that our society worships celebreties and athletes, I do not think this attitude has changed much in the last 50 years. Perhaps it comes a bit softer these days, "Oh, Junior, you can do whatever you want in life! But wouldn't it be grand if you were the next Joe Montana?"
Bully's didn't pick on me because they were jealous that I was smarter than them, like some here suggest is always the case. No, they didn't give a shit about their grades, so what difference would the height of my grades make. Instead, they picked on me because I was different than the majority. Once I figured that out, I adjusted my behaviours to be more normal, and they stopped once they forgot who I used to be.
What a horrible thing to suggest, "You are the reason you are bullied, you must change to be like everyone else." You have my pity for such a terrible childhood. While I realize that public schools are mostly an obedience and conformity system, it is still a sad sad thing.
What if you miss? What's downrange? (a window and a child?)
For suburban deer overpopulation's I'd say spotlights and machetes would be kind of sporting. Can you imagine the reaction of the Bambi morons?
I would pay to see this. However I would also never go hand-to-hand (hand-to-hoof?) with a deer, getting kicked by one of those things would ruin your day.
I will put my efforts learning to do great things in html5.
Blank pages are the only thing you can do with HTML5 right now in many browsers. Some people, preferring not to wait, have taken the unusual step of working with what's available now. I know, it's a weird concept in IT... I prefer to time travel to the future too, but my TARDIS is busted, and worse, infested with a red-headed scottish girl with a terrible welsh accent. You wouldn't happen to have one I could "borrow", would you?
I want them to synthesize a fully functioning Marylin Monroe to go with my 3D printed vintage sports car.
Barring certain genetic anomalies, it should be pretty easy for any husband and wife team to produce protein sequences that result in predicted conformations.
Silver should probably just retire now because the expectations of him in 2016 are going to be unrealistic. If he misses even one state, pundits will point out how flawed he is.
You underestimate pundits. They can point out flaws in someone even when they are 100% correct.
The fantastic, insightful website http://natesilverwrong/ website was very helpful in showing me how Silver would be entirely proven incorrect, with quotes from lots of people about why he would be shown as an idiot, and his methods were skewed.
It seems to be down now. Not really sure why.:-)
Because you mistyped the url.:)
Actually, the site really is down. Guess someone was embarrassed. The cache still exists, though the site seemed to be completely devoid of content anyhow.
This actually shows that Silver is poorly calibrated. if he were accurately calibrated, 80% of his 80%-confidence predictions would come true, 50% of his 50%-confidence predictions would come true, etc. But 100% of his >50%-confidence predictions came true. In the future, he should be more sure of his predictions.
There is a big difference between "Obama has a 51% chance of winning." and "Obama will get 51% of the votes."
I would suggest putting Bob in charge of replacement.
And that is a guaranteed way that the replacement system will somehow meet its demise early in the project as "not possible to implement". I have been at companies where a team's project was sunsetted and the team itself was put in charge of removing it. Never have I seen such a botched release.
One way out of this is for English to become the official and only government interaction language for the US. Another is for all government interaction to be done in some electronic fashion with the screen displaying whatever language the user selects, probably up to and including Klingon.
Another is for all government interaction to be done in some electronic fashion with the screen displaying whatever language the user selects, probably up to and including Klingon.
If Klingon culture comes to voting, can I challenge the winner to a fight to the death if I don't approve of his policies? I'll wager that neither BHO or WMR have experience handling a Bat'leth.
he's definitely doing it right though - simultaneously stick two fingers up at the Americans, and promise the Kiwis an improvement on their piss-poor internet.
Mr. Morden what beheaded as a gift from Ambassador Londo Molari to Vir Cotto (his assistant). So Mr. Morden did not end up wearing one of the Keepers. It was Molari who got to wear the keeper when he became emperor. It was my assumption that when G'kar kill Molari and Vir became emperor that he did not receive a Keeper but that that was never entirely clear to me.
Remember that the Keepers came from the Drakh once the Shadows were gone. The book trilogy "Legions of Fire" covers this. Londo got drunk to put the Keeper to sleep then asked G'Kar to kill him. Just as G'Kar was about to, the keeper woke up and took over and forced Molari to defend himself. Thus the two friends die together. During this is Vir leading the revolution to throw the Drakh off of Centauri Prime. (This is why he becomes Emperor, not because he happened to be there when Londo was killed.)
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[Unity] has raised the bar for usability on the Linux desktop.
My girlfriend would disagree. We run Unity on the netbook and she's continually asking where some random window has disappeared to and why she can't find the menu bar.
Unity made some useful changes for small screen devices like the netbook, but overall it's a disaster for Linux usability. Now I'm running XFCE on my laptop I'll probably switch the netbook over to it as well.
Most people that have been using computers dislike Unity. Your girlfriend is with most of the rest of the computing world.
Err, wait that came out wrong. Unity was supposed to be targeted at a more general computing audience but is missing the mark. What I mean is that Mark Shuttleworth wants to get with your girlfriend.
Dammit, that wasn't what I meant either.
The alternative is deep packet inspection, on the fly ad replacement by your ISP, and some legalese in your contract with the ISP that forces you to not suppress those ISP-injected ads. The technology has been demonstrated. It's a question of when they'll get serious about it.
I swear an ISP tried doing the ad replacement thing, but were sued out of doing it by advertisers. But more on the point, unless the advertisers were willing to pony up a huge amount of cash to the ISPs to cover the technology and expense of packet inspection plus the cost of lost customers that just up and leave the moment they hear about forced advertisements.... I don't see why the ISPs would bother lifting a finger in this realm.
I consider myself to be doing my ISP a favor. I am saving them the bandwidth of downloading so many advertisements.
I'll give up my Adblock when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Tomorrow: Advertisers lobby for laws to make adblock punishable with the death penalty.
Advertising is always obnoxious no matter how subtle it's done.
Really?
I own a small movie theatre and advertise what's playing and what's coming with a webpage and an email mailing list.
People actively seek out and view the webpage hundreds of times per day, and I have a fair number of people who have signed up to receive automatic notifications of what's playing when I have a confirmed booking for a new movie.
I don't think that my advertising is "obnoxious", since it's information that people are actually searching for and obviously want to receive.
Your page is not obnoxious because it is not advertising, you are providing an opt-in notification of services. Obviously your page is a combination of informative and easy to look at if people are seeking you out. If people are seeking you out for your info it is something desired. If you manage to sell them on other movies aside from the info they were looking for, good for you. If someone obnoxious advertisement all over the internet in blinking popup flash animated advertisements... it is obnoxious.
People subscribe to product mailing lists and visit the websites of things they are interested in.
Advertising is pushing info to people that are most likely not interested, therefore causing them to push it in the most obnoxious way possible in order to gather attention. Advertising is a mailbox full of dead trees that go immediately to the bin without a second look. Advertising is blinking annoying popup ads, and click through links to find content. Advertising is loud chatter on the radio. Advertising is giant lit-up eyesores lining our highways.
Anti-intellectualism has been carted around by the knuckle draggers for centuries, even if they lack the vocabulary to discuss it in these terms.
Just be glad that parents aren't contributing to the bullying to the same degree as we've seen in the past. How many fathers in the 50s, 60s and 70s wanted their sons to grow up to be sport stars, only to be disappointed when Junior has an aptitude for mathematics or a young boy's interest in entomology? This sort of family dynamic has been parodied numerous times in movies, but it was (and is) still quite real.
It's one thing to have your peers plot against you and torment you. It's another when your mentors and family join in the abuse. Although saying "it could be worse" doesn't really help the kids getting bullied. Perspective is not really all that valuable when you need an immediate solution to end your torment. But maybe the people who are trying to solve the situation need to realize they are trying to solve a very old social problem. I would even venture to call it a disease, or perhaps a blight.
Consider the degree that our society worships celebreties and athletes, I do not think this attitude has changed much in the last 50 years. Perhaps it comes a bit softer these days, "Oh, Junior, you can do whatever you want in life! But wouldn't it be grand if you were the next Joe Montana?"
Bully's didn't pick on me because they were jealous that I was smarter than them, like some here suggest is always the case. No, they didn't give a shit about their grades, so what difference would the height of my grades make. Instead, they picked on me because I was different than the majority. Once I figured that out, I adjusted my behaviours to be more normal, and they stopped once they forgot who I used to be.
What a horrible thing to suggest, "You are the reason you are bullied, you must change to be like everyone else." You have my pity for such a terrible childhood. While I realize that public schools are mostly an obedience and conformity system, it is still a sad sad thing.
What if you miss? What's downrange? (a window and a child?)
For suburban deer overpopulation's I'd say spotlights and machetes would be kind of sporting. Can you imagine the reaction of the Bambi morons?
I would pay to see this. However I would also never go hand-to-hand (hand-to-hoof?) with a deer, getting kicked by one of those things would ruin your day.
Weir: You destroyed three-quarters of a solar system!
McKay: Five-sixths, but it's not an exact science.
Sexconker:
If you are over 45 and tell people you think 16 year old boys are "stunning" that will give a few people the creeps.
Thank goodness this is the Internet and nobody knows or cares how old you are.
A: perhaps they each are carrying a taser
B: the guys' handle is "sexconker"
I will put my efforts learning to do great things in html5.
Blank pages are the only thing you can do with HTML5 right now in many browsers. Some people, preferring not to wait, have taken the unusual step of working with what's available now. I know, it's a weird concept in IT... I prefer to time travel to the future too, but my TARDIS is busted, and worse, infested with a red-headed scottish girl with a terrible welsh accent. You wouldn't happen to have one I could "borrow", would you?
I wish I could borrow someone's Amy...
Saying that anything is blocked or filtered is just a daily way of life there. It would be like reporting on someone receiving a speeding ticket.
It's really none of your business unless you live there. You have no right to judge.
This seems to be a recurring theme these days. If something is illegal in one place, they seem to think it must be made illegal everywhere.
Criticizing the government is illegal in China, it is not in Japan, Europe, the United States and the rest of free world.
Even worse, it is hypocritical, as you are more than welcome to criticize other's governments, just not China's.
Barring certain genetic anomalies, it should be pretty easy for any husband and wife team to produce protein sequences that result in predicted conformations.
Sex can produce cars?
Silver should probably just retire now because the expectations of him in 2016 are going to be unrealistic. If he misses even one state, pundits will point out how flawed he is.
You underestimate pundits. They can point out flaws in someone even when they are 100% correct.
The fantastic, insightful website http://natesilverwrong/ website was very helpful in showing me how Silver would be entirely proven incorrect, with quotes from lots of people about why he would be shown as an idiot, and his methods were skewed.
It seems to be down now. Not really sure why. :-)
Because you mistyped the url. :)
Actually, the site really is down. Guess someone was embarrassed. The cache still exists, though the site seemed to be completely devoid of content anyhow.
This actually shows that Silver is poorly calibrated. if he were accurately calibrated, 80% of his 80%-confidence predictions would come true, 50% of his 50%-confidence predictions would come true, etc. But 100% of his >50%-confidence predictions came true. In the future, he should be more sure of his predictions.
There is a big difference between "Obama has a 51% chance of winning." and "Obama will get 51% of the votes."
I would suggest putting Bob in charge of replacement.
And that is a guaranteed way that the replacement system will somehow meet its demise early in the project as "not possible to implement". I have been at companies where a team's project was sunsetted and the team itself was put in charge of removing it. Never have I seen such a botched release.
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One way out of this is for English to become the official and only government interaction language for the US. Another is for all government interaction to be done in some electronic fashion with the screen displaying whatever language the user selects, probably up to and including Klingon.
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Another is for all government interaction to be done in some electronic fashion with the screen displaying whatever language the user selects, probably up to and including Klingon.
If Klingon culture comes to voting, can I challenge the winner to a fight to the death if I don't approve of his policies? I'll wager that neither BHO or WMR have experience handling a Bat'leth.
Don't be so sure.
I gotta say, it seems more than a little self-serving for an RIAA-signed artist to promote the Democratic candidate...
But no more so than wealthy CEO supporting Romney. I see no problem with self-serving votes, would you complain about Obama voting for himself?
he's definitely doing it right though - simultaneously stick two fingers up at the Americans, and promise the Kiwis an improvement on their piss-poor internet.
By running a fiber link to.... America.
You just gave him $400 more than he had before, and he knows you're good for it.
What were you thinking?
It is cheaper than the amount racksapce was extorting them for.
Hmm, you don't suppose that "competitor" was rackspace? Naa....
Iceland. They're not scared of bears.
Ilya Brysgalov is.
Mr. Morden what beheaded as a gift from Ambassador Londo Molari to Vir Cotto (his assistant). So Mr. Morden did not end up wearing one of the Keepers. It was Molari who got to wear the keeper when he became emperor. It was my assumption that when G'kar kill Molari and Vir became emperor that he did not receive a Keeper but that that was never entirely clear to me.
Remember that the Keepers came from the Drakh once the Shadows were gone.
The book trilogy "Legions of Fire" covers this. Londo got drunk to put the Keeper to sleep then asked G'Kar to kill him. Just as G'Kar was about to, the keeper woke up and took over and forced Molari to defend himself. Thus the two friends die together. During this is Vir leading the revolution to throw the Drakh off of Centauri Prime. (This is why he becomes Emperor, not because he happened to be there when Londo was killed.)
What, what....
Why would anyone in their right mind place generators and tanks below ground where flooding would be an issue?
Yeah, when you can put them on the roof... where... there is rain and wind...
I suppose there is no winning here.