Why would you expect the towers to list sideways as they fell? Just because? You are accusing the official story of using that sort of reasoning.
The major structure of the each tower was the outer wall (the towers, not WTC7); the lower part of each wall would tend to prevent any structure above it from collapsing any direction other than into the tower.
There is nothing preventing you from learning the layouts presented by a programmable keyboard. You might even program it to only ever present a single layout.
Granted, this makes the advantages smaller, but if there was no decrease in use as a normal keyboard (it is likely there would be) and the increase in cost was small (it would likely be large), the fact that the keyboard was programmable would not prevent you from using it just like you use a static keyboard.
Basically, you stated that your problem is that the keyboard could be dynamic; this is not an issue, as the dynamic keyboard could surely be used in a static manner. Your problem is that you don't want the decrease in tactile feel and increase in price.
Does your fixed layout keyboard give you problems?
A programmable surface with decent tactile feedback is purely additive to a keyboard. You can have a normal keyboard, plus a keyboard for Photoshop (if you want it), plus a keyboard for Quake (if you want it), plus a keyboard for... (if you want it).
I stopped buying DVD's after I had about 12 of them that I realized I never watched. I watch a fair number of movies, but I don't rewatch them all that often, nor do I watch them in ways where pause matters very much (it is always better to have it, but I don't notice).
I figure the steady stead movie on demand situation to be ~$2 to play a movie once sometime in the next 10 years (probably $3 in 15 years). This cuts a deep swath into my desire to have a 'collection' (and $3 in 15 years is still more attractive to me personally than collecting dozens of movies).
I figure this must be because they have lost their minds.
Archiving thousands of episodes of television is a nice way to have thousands of hours of television at the tip of your fingers, but this isn't all that desirable to me (at least 1/2 of what I watch is fairly new). Archiving dozens of movies is similarly tedious to me (It is a rare movie that I actually want to see a third or fourth time). Archiving music makes a lot of sense to me, but 50 gigabytes of music (unless you feel the need to have lossless) is a massive amount of audio to manage, let alone 500 gigabytes.
Software is generally extraordinarily cheap when you consider the alternative of not using it. This is why people are willing to buy it. Even that super expensive CAD software you are talking about.
If you don't like it, build alternatives that provide a better value at a lower cost (this pattern is evident in open source and free software; the software that sees the most use is the software of the highest quality, not the software with the most expensive competitors/alternatives).
I consider consumer surplus to be profit just as much as I consider producer surplus to be profit.
Buying bread from the store makes most people better off than they otherwise would be (they save time or are able to better use their time, allowing them to become better off, etc.).
When you buy a loaf of bread, do you pay the store the posted price, or do you pay the store what the loaf of bread is worth to you? If you pay the posted price, it is likely that you are making a profit on the transaction (or perhaps you manage to grow and process all of your own food...).
A naive, linear interpretation of firefox's track record on memory usage would have it not using memory anymore somewhere around version 6 (people having ongoing issues with FF3 should install flashblock and see what happens).
You misunderstand. If it takes a person in the developing world, say, 1 day, to harvest their field by hand, and somebody goes around charging them, say, the equivalent of 1/2 days labor to do it with a machine that he has, and it costs him, say, the equivalent of 1/10 of a days labor, where's the problem? He is making a horrible, vicious profit of 2/5 days labor on every field, and the worker is making a horrible, vicious profit of 1/2 days labor.
Profit does not always imply that something hinky is going on. Sure, some of the time it does, but some of the time it just means that somebody has a better way of doing things. Rewarding people for having better ways of doing things is not a bad thing from where I sit.
Not really. The awful case scenario is that you need to use some other sqlite utility to dump your bookmarks out of the db file. The likely scenario is that you can just drop the db file into a new profile.
The easy solution is to set it to automatically download updates, but to not install them until told to. The nag box does not start coming up until the updates are installed, which happens whenever the user chooses.
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Why would you expect the towers to list sideways as they fell? Just because? You are accusing the official story of using that sort of reasoning.
The major structure of the each tower was the outer wall (the towers, not WTC7); the lower part of each wall would tend to prevent any structure above it from collapsing any direction other than into the tower.
Let's leave McCain out of this one.
Blaming a tie breaker solely on the person who breaks the tie is a little wacky.
There is nothing preventing you from learning the layouts presented by a programmable keyboard. You might even program it to only ever present a single layout.
Granted, this makes the advantages smaller, but if there was no decrease in use as a normal keyboard (it is likely there would be) and the increase in cost was small (it would likely be large), the fact that the keyboard was programmable would not prevent you from using it just like you use a static keyboard.
Basically, you stated that your problem is that the keyboard could be dynamic; this is not an issue, as the dynamic keyboard could surely be used in a static manner. Your problem is that you don't want the decrease in tactile feel and increase in price.
Does your fixed layout keyboard give you problems?
A programmable surface with decent tactile feedback is purely additive to a keyboard. You can have a normal keyboard, plus a keyboard for Photoshop (if you want it), plus a keyboard for Quake (if you want it), plus a keyboard for ... (if you want it).
The "Propagating Constraints" section of this article is quite a bit less brute force than the "search" section:
http://norvig.com/sudoku.html
That you look a lot like your skull mitigates the recognizable issues quite a bit.
He is going to get a little taller.
I stopped buying DVD's after I had about 12 of them that I realized I never watched. I watch a fair number of movies, but I don't rewatch them all that often, nor do I watch them in ways where pause matters very much (it is always better to have it, but I don't notice).
I figure the steady stead movie on demand situation to be ~$2 to play a movie once sometime in the next 10 years (probably $3 in 15 years). This cuts a deep swath into my desire to have a 'collection' (and $3 in 15 years is still more attractive to me personally than collecting dozens of movies).
I figure this must be because they have lost their minds.
Archiving thousands of episodes of television is a nice way to have thousands of hours of television at the tip of your fingers, but this isn't all that desirable to me (at least 1/2 of what I watch is fairly new). Archiving dozens of movies is similarly tedious to me (It is a rare movie that I actually want to see a third or fourth time). Archiving music makes a lot of sense to me, but 50 gigabytes of music (unless you feel the need to have lossless) is a massive amount of audio to manage, let alone 500 gigabytes.
A $100 million box office does not pay for a $100 million movie (which really only makes your point stronger).
Software is generally extraordinarily cheap when you consider the alternative of not using it. This is why people are willing to buy it. Even that super expensive CAD software you are talking about.
If you don't like it, build alternatives that provide a better value at a lower cost (this pattern is evident in open source and free software; the software that sees the most use is the software of the highest quality, not the software with the most expensive competitors/alternatives).
Regarding your second point: Do you mean to imply that poor hardware support is one of the reasons that hardware manufacturers don't push linux?
A big difference is that BANANA is catchier than FLTBAA.
Maybe Fucking Allow Things Built Anywhere Now?
I consider consumer surplus to be profit just as much as I consider producer surplus to be profit.
Buying bread from the store makes most people better off than they otherwise would be (they save time or are able to better use their time, allowing them to become better off, etc.).
When you buy a loaf of bread, do you pay the store the posted price, or do you pay the store what the loaf of bread is worth to you? If you pay the posted price, it is likely that you are making a profit on the transaction (or perhaps you manage to grow and process all of your own food...).
A naive, linear interpretation of firefox's track record on memory usage would have it not using memory anymore somewhere around version 6 (people having ongoing issues with FF3 should install flashblock and see what happens).
You misunderstand. If it takes a person in the developing world, say, 1 day, to harvest their field by hand, and somebody goes around charging them, say, the equivalent of 1/2 days labor to do it with a machine that he has, and it costs him, say, the equivalent of 1/10 of a days labor, where's the problem? He is making a horrible, vicious profit of 2/5 days labor on every field, and the worker is making a horrible, vicious profit of 1/2 days labor.
Profit does not always imply that something hinky is going on. Sure, some of the time it does, but some of the time it just means that somebody has a better way of doing things. Rewarding people for having better ways of doing things is not a bad thing from where I sit.
If all of the alternatives are $40, where's the problem with charging $30?
Phoenix was as much marketing as it was engineering.
They wanted to build a browser that people wanted to use, not a browser with every feature that anybody ever thought of.
Not really. The awful case scenario is that you need to use some other sqlite utility to dump your bookmarks out of the db file. The likely scenario is that you can just drop the db file into a new profile.
The easy solution is to set it to automatically download updates, but to not install them until told to. The nag box does not start coming up until the updates are installed, which happens whenever the user chooses.
Omnivores/carnivores don't seem to have as much trouble with cannibalism and prion diseases as herbivores do.
That doesn't really fit with human prion issues (but perhaps human cannibalism just concentrates prions from other sources).
The next two move along a little faster. A little.