As I see it, GUIs present a limited surface of options to the user. Assuming that the user wants the options provided by the interface, this is fine. Command lines can have a potentially infinite list of options, limited only by the user's willingness to look them up and type them.
Consider all the option dialog boxes you've seen with multiple tabs and buttons to open new dialog boxes with scrolling lists of options on yet another tab (eg, "Internet Options") as an attempt to get a huge number of options into a GUI. See also MS's choice pre-ribbon to hide unused menu entries in Office so that users would never find them.
People with entitlement complexes and inability to understand simple instructions get surprised when someone gets angry after they take code that says "You can use this as long as you make the result GPL" and use it without making the result GPL.
They could have written their own or taken someone else's code with a more permissive license like BSD, but suggesting this causes them to react like the guy who defends his use of TPB for his movie watching by declaring he has some sort of right to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, without having to pay for it.
You want it, you follow the rules to get it buddy. If you don't like the rules, nobody's forcing you to get it.
Which is exactly Ebert's point. People don't want to interact, they want to watch the movie. If the theater doesn't let people do this, people will set up their own home theater and the big screen loses the ticket sale.
If you're in Texas, drop by an Alamo Drafthouse. Check the schedule to see if there's a special event like a sing-along. Or just watch the movie with a nice cold beer. But whatever you do, leave the cellphone off. And don't talk during the film (unless participating) or else (former) governor Ann Richards will take your ass out.
There are other chains here in Texas that serve dinner and a movie, and almost certainly even more in other states, but I don't think their PSAs are nearly as awesome.
ISP's and hosting companies will not run out of IPs.
No, no, of course not.
This only means that the price per IP will start to slowly grow.
Yes, yes, of course it will.
Claiming that the second will prevent the other is like claiming that if I have an expensive enough metal detector I'll find the pirate treasure in my backyard. You can claim that the last IP will be held ransom for trillions of dollars and never sell, the counterclaim is that there's an upper bound to what people will pay for IPs, the price will find that boundary, and the last of them will sell at that maximum price.
The IRA coverage and stuff is for uninvested cash and insured CDs (ie from American, not Antiguan banks), not for investments. The grandparent isn't exactly right, but not wrong either. I'm not exactly familiar with every single 401k plan out there, but every single one I've ever seen, you pick an investment strategy and the plan manager puts your contributions into appropriate mutual funds selected by risk level.
I haven't been reading a whole lot since college, and I've been setting up my wishlist to try and organize for next year's resolution to make time to read more. For starters, I'm trying to catch up on my Terry Pratchett.
Aside from that, I just finished Murukami's Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, and loved it, so I've picked up 1Q84 for this Christmas flight (and ensuing "family time"), and have the Wind-up Bird Chronicles in my wishlist.
Aside from that I have Jasper Fforde's latest Thursday Next book in my wishlist (along with Shades of Grey).
Aside from that I recently realized that while I've seen so many movies based on Philip K Dick works I've never actually read any of them. That is to be remedied, starting with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, A Scanner Darkly, and so on.
Finally the rest is miscellaneous stuff. It seems that Harry Harrison has written some new Stainless Steel Rat books since I last looked, there's also some Ursula K. LeGuin, John Scalzi, Larry Niven, various other scifi authors on my list.
What? You expected me to rattle off a bunch of high-brow classics like everyone else? (In a terrible fake british accent whilst smoking a pipe and/or having a spot of tea, I presume?) At least I didn't mention Spice & Wolf or Book Girl (oh wait, I just did).
the backlash against usage-based billing as a consequence of network neutrality
The only acklash against usage-based billing I've ever seen is from proponents of network neutrality who point out that usage-based billing without neutrality is asking for the system to be gamed (eg your provider drops every other packet and bills you for twice the data).
I have absolutely no love lost for companies that turn to cadmium when lead gets too hard to smuggle in to the product, but yeah, most of this is bullshit that we survived and in doing so, we became stronger, smarter, and given slightly reduced depth perception.
What about evidence that talking to passengers in the car is distracting?
It's only a problem if you continue to discuss the finer points of albino crocodile nesting behavior while your passengers are screaming about the oncoming truck.
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Bipartisianship at its finest: reds and blues coming together to fuck everyone in the ass.
As I see it, GUIs present a limited surface of options to the user. Assuming that the user wants the options provided by the interface, this is fine. Command lines can have a potentially infinite list of options, limited only by the user's willingness to look them up and type them.
Consider all the option dialog boxes you've seen with multiple tabs and buttons to open new dialog boxes with scrolling lists of options on yet another tab (eg, "Internet Options") as an attempt to get a huge number of options into a GUI. See also MS's choice pre-ribbon to hide unused menu entries in Office so that users would never find them.
The Ancient Battle
I used to be a GUI Operating System but then I took a > to the knee.
People with entitlement complexes and inability to understand simple instructions get surprised when someone gets angry after they take code that says "You can use this as long as you make the result GPL" and use it without making the result GPL.
They could have written their own or taken someone else's code with a more permissive license like BSD, but suggesting this causes them to react like the guy who defends his use of TPB for his movie watching by declaring he has some sort of right to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, without having to pay for it.
You want it, you follow the rules to get it buddy. If you don't like the rules, nobody's forcing you to get it.
I know people who leave their seatbelt connected 24x7 and just sit on it. I don't ride with them.
otherwise it has become just another piece of space junk
Or Taapon.
Print all the leaflets you want, we'll throw you in jail for littering.
Bah. "international time" is ISO 8601. Writing the date "8/12/2011" is "intentionally confusing to everyone else time".
So, perhaps this is in line with Christianity.
"You wouldn't copy a loaf of bread between thousands of people would you?"
Right now, there are 28800 pages defaced by this attack.
Based on the ISC Diary page with it's update dated August, this has been going on for months.
You don't want to interact. Fair enough.
Which is exactly Ebert's point. People don't want to interact, they want to watch the movie. If the theater doesn't let people do this, people will set up their own home theater and the big screen loses the ticket sale.
They exist.
If you're in Texas, drop by an Alamo Drafthouse. Check the schedule to see if there's a special event like a sing-along. Or just watch the movie with a nice cold beer. But whatever you do, leave the cellphone off. And don't talk during the film (unless participating) or else (former) governor Ann Richards will take your ass out.
There are other chains here in Texas that serve dinner and a movie, and almost certainly even more in other states, but I don't think their PSAs are nearly as awesome.
ISP's and hosting companies will not run out of IPs.
No, no, of course not.
This only means that the price per IP will start to slowly grow.
Yes, yes, of course it will.
Claiming that the second will prevent the other is like claiming that if I have an expensive enough metal detector I'll find the pirate treasure in my backyard. You can claim that the last IP will be held ransom for trillions of dollars and never sell, the counterclaim is that there's an upper bound to what people will pay for IPs, the price will find that boundary, and the last of them will sell at that maximum price.
The IRA coverage and stuff is for uninvested cash and insured CDs (ie from American, not Antiguan banks), not for investments. The grandparent isn't exactly right, but not wrong either. I'm not exactly familiar with every single 401k plan out there, but every single one I've ever seen, you pick an investment strategy and the plan manager puts your contributions into appropriate mutual funds selected by risk level.
That's gotta be the stupidest word I've heard all day!
I haven't been reading a whole lot since college, and I've been setting up my wishlist to try and organize for next year's resolution to make time to read more. For starters, I'm trying to catch up on my Terry Pratchett.
Aside from that, I just finished Murukami's Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, and loved it, so I've picked up 1Q84 for this Christmas flight (and ensuing "family time"), and have the Wind-up Bird Chronicles in my wishlist.
Aside from that I have Jasper Fforde's latest Thursday Next book in my wishlist (along with Shades of Grey).
Aside from that I recently realized that while I've seen so many movies based on Philip K Dick works I've never actually read any of them. That is to be remedied, starting with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, A Scanner Darkly, and so on.
Finally the rest is miscellaneous stuff. It seems that Harry Harrison has written some new Stainless Steel Rat books since I last looked, there's also some Ursula K. LeGuin, John Scalzi, Larry Niven, various other scifi authors on my list.
What? You expected me to rattle off a bunch of high-brow classics like everyone else? (In a terrible fake british accent whilst smoking a pipe and/or having a spot of tea, I presume?) At least I didn't mention Spice & Wolf or Book Girl (oh wait, I just did).
remote control options? this doesn't look like he lost consciousness but was that even an option if he'd have passed out?
Iran's pretty good at that remote control thing.
This leads to the real question (or does it beg for it, since it's standing in the street in rags with a sign "please ask!"):
After decades of flight, why the fuck do we not have reliable sensors?
before getting into a discussion of ID
If God had intended us to drive, he'd have given us brains that were well adapted to the task!
Or honked to wake up the driver.
there's usually a way to ask the OS never to swap a program out, it's seldom exposed to the user.
This is why I don't use PuTTY's pageant on windows without disk encryption. It specifically states in it's faq that even with the functions it has available, it cannot guarantee that windows won't swap it to disk.
the backlash against usage-based billing as a consequence of network neutrality
The only acklash against usage-based billing I've ever seen is from proponents of network neutrality who point out that usage-based billing without neutrality is asking for the system to be gamed (eg your provider drops every other packet and bills you for twice the data).
I have absolutely no love lost for companies that turn to cadmium when lead gets too hard to smuggle in to the product, but yeah, most of this is bullshit that we survived and in doing so, we became stronger, smarter, and given slightly reduced depth perception.
What about evidence that talking to passengers in the car is distracting?
It's only a problem if you continue to discuss the finer points of albino crocodile nesting behavior while your passengers are screaming about the oncoming truck.
No, this is an excuse. A stupid idea and an encroachment on legitimate freedoms.
My plan? If you kill someone driving while texting, skip manslaughter and go straight to premeditated murder.