The biggest reason I have not returned to the iPhone is the lack of a swipe style keyboard. After adapting to it, I refuse to go back to pecking words out with my thumbs, so no iPhones until I can get swype. It has several advantages: - Word entry without looking - one-handed text entry (single thumb swipes out a word in the same time two could tap it, while being held in the same hand.)
Swype's implementation isn't flawless though. They haven't figured out it is about word shape. The biggest problem is the limited character set. On a phone in landscape, or anything bigger than a phone you should have a keyboard on one side and an alternate (numberic pad) on the other. Since we don't need to hit specific keys anymore, we can reduce the overall area dedicated to displaying the keyboard and just show one for reference (aiming) and determine the word by the shape traced out. Have a button for enlarging it for the odd word that isn't in the dictionary and you're done.
Once swype (or any other keyboard (swift key?) realizes that, we'll have the best touch keyboard we can have without a fill-size button board.
I was talking about for Windows logo certifications. Sure, you can plug anything in. But the certification program assures people who buy Vista and higher a proper OpenGL capable adapter by requiring DX10. Capable begin the operative word. Driver availability is a whole other matter. But my point is any Vista certified hardware (as of 5 years ago) should also be compliant. Additionally non-certification efforts for XP based on feature competition alone would provide additional years past 5 that would give users capable OpenGL hardware.
Let's not forget that Windows has it's own set of requirements, that in XP DX9 compliant hardware is required and in later versions more advanced DX hardware is required for certification.
So Windows has requirements. Also, there *should* be a GL implementation that works as well. Only the lamest manufacturers and newest hardware would be lacking these.
In so much as religion is useless (scientifically speaking) there are good sides and bad sides to it. It brings people together and helps them deal with challenges of life. That is good. To the degree that religion separated us into groups of ideological factions (also scientifically useless) religion cannot be tolerated. The best way to resolve this isn't to preserve someone's ability to be offended when criticized, but to wear it down. There is no good to come from preserving someone's ability to be offended, as being offended is an emotional reaction to an attack on non-scientific beliefs. This amounts to criticizing someone's belief in the tooth fairy. Tooth fairy can't be offended because tooth fairy didn't ever exist, and is wholly irrelevant to the world.
I hope that one day soon we can put all this religious stuff behind us because every day science is making religion irrelevant. And that's nothing to be offended by. The sooner we give up the crutches of false beliefs the sooner we can be to realizing one real humanity and not countries or religious factions.
Maple syrup recipes? Locations of the strategic maple syrup reserve? Maybe bearing see crabbing grounds information? Do they even have a navy? I know in for the NATO coalition efforts in the middle east they had 1500 men deployed.
I never factor in social status. No use being the cool man on the block if I can't use the damn thing. The key mental difference is rather than try to do everything, they focus on going 80% really well. Non-apple products are check-box happy, where they add half-implemented features to compete in the checkbox wars.Apple never competed in those so they never lost them. Case and point Apple competed on design esthetics and simplicity.
Every time Microsoft copies another company, they fail. The only notable exception is XBOX which they sustained losses for a while in order to develop market share.
Look at the rest of MS copycat products/services: Hotmail (worst web email experience ever) Zune (worst brand-name MP3 player ever) Windows phone 0-7.5/7.8 Worst smart phone OS ever (No multitasking) Silverlight (worst copy of Flash) Virtual PC (worst VM, at least QEMU can host multiple architectures) MS Windows (worst OS2 clone ever)
The problem is that me-too mentality just does;t translate into ground breaking products. They only get as far as "good enough". Some things I left off the list are Word and Excel. However these happened early enough on that they were clones of DOS programs (WP and Lotus 123) that when they went graphical MS took "proper" ownership of them.
And by party, I mean set off fireworks when they arrive. Use a trigger that I got from IED-using insurgents in Iraq. You can use two hacksaw blades in a hose that act as a switch when driven on. Have this trigger a rocket motor igniter that ignites a rocket motor that lights several fuses which then sends fireworks up in the air announcing their unexpected arrival. IIRC, you only need 3 volts.
That should be enough to scare them away. But you can also use it to trigger cameras too.
He said, "Kid, we found your name on an envelope at the bottom of a half a ton of garbage, and just wanted to know if you had any information about it." And I said, "Yes, sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie, I put that envelope under that garbage."
After speaking to Obie for about fourty-five minutes on the telephone we finally arrived at the truth of the matter and said that we had to go down and pick up the garbage, and also had to go down and speak to him at the police officer's station. So we got in the red VW microbus with the shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed on toward the police officer's station.
Now friends, there was only one or two things that Obie coulda done at the police station, and the first was he could have given us a medal for being so brave and honest on the telephone, which wasn't very likely, and we didn't expect it, and the other thing was he could have bawled us out and told us never to be see driving garbage around the vicinity again, which is what we expected, but when we got to the police officer's station there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon, and we was both immediately arrested. Handcuffed. And I said "Obie, I don't think I can pick up the garbage with these handcuffs on." He said, "Shut up, kid. Get in the back of the patrol car."
Inform the local fire department that the road is booby trapped (with location and methods) and use a board with nails in it to puncture their tires. It'll make dumping on your land really expensive. With any luck you'll fix the problem before the fire trucks need to go down it.
A neighbor of mine had a similar problem in that the county road made a hairpin turn around what used to be an old barn and stream that had since been removed. One of the locals got the idea of just driving across his land rather than do the turn. It was a great idea for a a few weeks then the PO got tired and put a 2x6 with nails in the field. Problem solved.
As a former Atrix owner, the lapdock was really enticing until I learned its limitations. There's no webcam, so your front-facing camera only sees the back of the lapdock. For whatever reason the trackpad lacked any kind of scrolling, which is imperative for webpages. There was no edge scrolling or two-finger gesture.
They were overpriced and the only way to get them not overpriced was when you're buying your phone, which is when you're already dropping a few hundred bucks on that and new accessories (unless you've already switched to android). Then you even had to buy the $35/mo "tethering option" (what why?! It's not like you could use your phone while it was docked) after dropping another $200 on the hardware.
In the end, great concept, bad execution. Tablets moved in to this space, which I guess were more profitable for Motorola. I can't but think had it changed to be scrollable and not require tethering and have a camera, that many more people would have signed up.
Someone needs to. This idea is ridiculous. From material availability to just figuring out that hey it's easier to go somewhere else, the idea is pure mental masturbation and not indicated by logic.
Rock is rare. Gas is common. You'll need to either gather materials from several other "nearby" solar systems, or use fusion to generate the materials yourself. Either way, it's energy intensive. Next calculate the energy required to process and shape the materials Of course there is a speed/energy tradeoff. Efficiency would say you process the materials near the sun then let it push the panels into position. A more energy intensive approach would be some other artificial source of energy, but if you have that, why bother?
Even if you have to bother, why wouldn't you just go to another solar system and transform that. I'm going to say that terraforming is loads less energy intensive than building a shell around a solar system.
I have no idea why Dyson Spheres get the traction they do. It's rather inefficient.
Ok so somehow you get enough materials and energy to shape it into a sphere. That's an impossible task, but then it's somehow even more impossible that they use radiators to disperse the heat? I mean when you're talking about impossibility, it doesn't matter if it's squared or cubed. Then once you have this shell of solar collectors, how do you get the energy inside of it? You basically have a Faraday cage.
Also, why the fuck? Any significantly advanced civilization would use gravitational engines. That is either under direct or natural control, they would set up a oscillation system between multiple orbiting bodies where they can harvest energy without needing fusion. Instead of lighting up the solar system, they'd go invisible, detectible only via gravity waves which to date, are impossible to detect. At a minimum, significantly harder to detect.
So now we get to have a new trial. However it won't be the same trial as they've already argued and received feedback about how persuasive their arguments were.
Would a retrial just play edited version (minus the struck/objection-sustained stuff) of video back to 12 people and get that jury's vote? It seems like it would be much less effort.
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The biggest reason I have not returned to the iPhone is the lack of a swipe style keyboard. After adapting to it, I refuse to go back to pecking words out with my thumbs, so no iPhones until I can get swype. It has several advantages:
- Word entry without looking
- one-handed text entry (single thumb swipes out a word in the same time two could tap it, while being held in the same hand.)
Swype's implementation isn't flawless though. They haven't figured out it is about word shape. The biggest problem is the limited character set. On a phone in landscape, or anything bigger than a phone you should have a keyboard on one side and an alternate (numberic pad) on the other. Since we don't need to hit specific keys anymore, we can reduce the overall area dedicated to displaying the keyboard and just show one for reference (aiming) and determine the word by the shape traced out. Have a button for enlarging it for the odd word that isn't in the dictionary and you're done.
Once swype (or any other keyboard (swift key?) realizes that, we'll have the best touch keyboard we can have without a fill-size button board.
I was talking about for Windows logo certifications. Sure, you can plug anything in. But the certification program assures people who buy Vista and higher a proper OpenGL capable adapter by requiring DX10. Capable begin the operative word. Driver availability is a whole other matter. But my point is any Vista certified hardware (as of 5 years ago) should also be compliant. Additionally non-certification efforts for XP based on feature competition alone would provide additional years past 5 that would give users capable OpenGL hardware.
Yes. I was like "Who??" Then he ended up doing a good job. I still don't know why George Takei hasn't hosted. Ever.
Let's not forget that Windows has it's own set of requirements, that in XP DX9 compliant hardware is required and in later versions more advanced DX hardware is required for certification.
So Windows has requirements. Also, there *should* be a GL implementation that works as well. Only the lamest manufacturers and newest hardware would be lacking these.
In so much as religion is useless (scientifically speaking) there are good sides and bad sides to it. It brings people together and helps them deal with challenges of life. That is good. To the degree that religion separated us into groups of ideological factions (also scientifically useless) religion cannot be tolerated. The best way to resolve this isn't to preserve someone's ability to be offended when criticized, but to wear it down. There is no good to come from preserving someone's ability to be offended, as being offended is an emotional reaction to an attack on non-scientific beliefs. This amounts to criticizing someone's belief in the tooth fairy. Tooth fairy can't be offended because tooth fairy didn't ever exist, and is wholly irrelevant to the world.
I hope that one day soon we can put all this religious stuff behind us because every day science is making religion irrelevant. And that's nothing to be offended by. The sooner we give up the crutches of false beliefs the sooner we can be to realizing one real humanity and not countries or religious factions.
Mythbusters also found that the lead plane got a boost too. That's what I want see explained!
I am slightly envious of them in this regard. If they only had better weather I'd probably move there.
Maple syrup recipes? Locations of the strategic maple syrup reserve? Maybe bearing see crabbing grounds information?
Do they even have a navy? I know in for the NATO coalition efforts in the middle east they had 1500 men deployed.
I never factor in social status. No use being the cool man on the block if I can't use the damn thing. The key mental difference is rather than try to do everything, they focus on going 80% really well. Non-apple products are check-box happy, where they add half-implemented features to compete in the checkbox wars.Apple never competed in those so they never lost them. Case and point Apple competed on design esthetics and simplicity.
Microhard sounds like a clone of Halfpenies to me.
Micohard hapPCness? (haptic PC-ness?)
No, from your mom's bed.
Hah, trolling the troll.
Every time Microsoft copies another company, they fail. The only notable exception is XBOX which they sustained losses for a while in order to develop market share.
Look at the rest of MS copycat products/services:
Hotmail (worst web email experience ever)
Zune (worst brand-name MP3 player ever)
Windows phone 0-7.5/7.8 Worst smart phone OS ever (No multitasking)
Silverlight (worst copy of Flash)
Virtual PC (worst VM, at least QEMU can host multiple architectures)
MS Windows (worst OS2 clone ever)
The problem is that me-too mentality just does;t translate into ground breaking products. They only get as far as "good enough".
Some things I left off the list are Word and Excel. However these happened early enough on that they were clones of DOS programs (WP and Lotus 123) that when they went graphical MS took "proper" ownership of them.
Blocking internet access to impressionable youth cuts both ways, but it cuts harder against Western influence.
And by party, I mean set off fireworks when they arrive. Use a trigger that I got from IED-using insurgents in Iraq. You can use two hacksaw blades in a hose that act as a switch when driven on. Have this trigger a rocket motor igniter that ignites a rocket motor that lights several fuses which then sends fireworks up in the air announcing their unexpected arrival. IIRC, you only need 3 volts.
That should be enough to scare them away. But you can also use it to trigger cameras too.
He said, "Kid,
we found your name on an envelope at the bottom of a half a ton of garbage, and just wanted to know if you had any information about it." And
I said, "Yes, sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie, I put that envelope under that garbage."
After speaking to Obie for about fourty-five minutes on the telephone we finally arrived at the truth of the matter and said that we had to go down
and pick up the garbage, and also had to go down and speak to him at the police officer's station. So we got in the red VW microbus with the
shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed on toward the police officer's station.
Now friends, there was only one or two things that Obie coulda done at the police station, and the first was he could have given us a medal for
being so brave and honest on the telephone, which wasn't very likely, and we didn't expect it, and the other thing was he could have bawled us out
and told us never to be see driving garbage around the vicinity again, which is what we expected, but when we got to the police officer's station
there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon, and we was both immediately arrested. Handcuffed. And I said "Obie, I don't think I
can pick up the garbage with these handcuffs on." He said, "Shut up, kid. Get in the back of the patrol car."
-- Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie.
Inform the local fire department that the road is booby trapped (with location and methods) and use a board with nails in it to puncture their tires. It'll make dumping on your land really expensive. With any luck you'll fix the problem before the fire trucks need to go down it.
A neighbor of mine had a similar problem in that the county road made a hairpin turn around what used to be an old barn and stream that had since been removed. One of the locals got the idea of just driving across his land rather than do the turn. It was a great idea for a a few weeks then the PO got tired and put a 2x6 with nails in the field. Problem solved.
As a former Atrix owner, the lapdock was really enticing until I learned its limitations. There's no webcam, so your front-facing camera only sees the back of the lapdock. For whatever reason the trackpad lacked any kind of scrolling, which is imperative for webpages. There was no edge scrolling or two-finger gesture.
They were overpriced and the only way to get them not overpriced was when you're buying your phone, which is when you're already dropping a few hundred bucks on that and new accessories (unless you've already switched to android). Then you even had to buy the $35/mo "tethering option" (what why?! It's not like you could use your phone while it was docked) after dropping another $200 on the hardware.
In the end, great concept, bad execution. Tablets moved in to this space, which I guess were more profitable for Motorola. I can't but think had it changed to be scrollable and not require tethering and have a camera, that many more people would have signed up.
Someone needs to. This idea is ridiculous. From material availability to just figuring out that hey it's easier to go somewhere else, the idea is pure mental masturbation and not indicated by logic.
Rock is rare. Gas is common. You'll need to either gather materials from several other "nearby" solar systems, or use fusion to generate the materials yourself. Either way, it's energy intensive. Next calculate the energy required to process and shape the materials Of course there is a speed/energy tradeoff. Efficiency would say you process the materials near the sun then let it push the panels into position. A more energy intensive approach would be some other artificial source of energy, but if you have that, why bother?
Even if you have to bother, why wouldn't you just go to another solar system and transform that. I'm going to say that terraforming is loads less energy intensive than building a shell around a solar system.
I have no idea why Dyson Spheres get the traction they do. It's rather inefficient.
Ok so somehow you get enough materials and energy to shape it into a sphere. That's an impossible task, but then it's somehow even more impossible that they use radiators to disperse the heat? I mean when you're talking about impossibility, it doesn't matter if it's squared or cubed. Then once you have this shell of solar collectors, how do you get the energy inside of it? You basically have a Faraday cage.
Also, why the fuck? Any significantly advanced civilization would use gravitational engines. That is either under direct or natural control, they would set up a oscillation system between multiple orbiting bodies where they can harvest energy without needing fusion. Instead of lighting up the solar system, they'd go invisible, detectible only via gravity waves which to date, are impossible to detect. At a minimum, significantly harder to detect.
So how can we verify this post?
Also, GPS doesn't identify the body the planets are orbiting. So it might very well claim its landed on Jupiter.
Link is bad.
Depth Perception
Binocular galactic vision!
So now we get to have a new trial. However it won't be the same trial as they've already argued and received feedback about how persuasive their arguments were.
Would a retrial just play edited version (minus the struck/objection-sustained stuff) of video back to 12 people and get that jury's vote? It seems like it would be much less effort.
When you are the hammer, everything else is a nail. When you are a Department of Homeland security, everything is a terrorist threat.
I'm worried though that this will be classified as WONTFIX, WORKSASDESIGNED.