The analysts are not idiots. They write these articles for companies (unless the company writes the article itself and emails it in) and it's a pretty sure bet that this one was written by someone who hopes to sell something not very mouselike.
They may figure out how to read eye movements. I used to work for a guy who now has a startup where the idea is, nobody can see you typing in your PIN if you just look at the numbers and the camera is watching your eyes. But a touchscreen? A touchscreen is a good device for a UI which needs to be more intuitive than comfortable. That's why you see them at ATMs and in lobbies, where you only want to mess with it for a few minutes, and on small handheld devices where the ergonomics are irrelevant. But if you're using this interface at a job where you sit in front of it all day, you don't want to be holding your hand in the air.
During the Apollo missions they just put the, uh, stuff in plastic bags and tossed it out the porthole. Nobody complained.
Yeah, isn't that a bitch... there could be a bag of Apollo astronaut shit out there with your name on it. Imagine getting beaned in the side of your space helmet by an ancient bowel movement traveling around the earth at several km/s... although they were on a diet of soft foods so that might soften the blow a little.
Go spring or fall... crank up the Harley and pack some doob... bring a camera... stuff your ugly bitch in the seat behind you... and stay at Panamint Springs (the other places are run by contractors with federal NPS contracts).
There is NOBODY there. It's a space as big as Connecticut and you have it all to yourself and maybe a few dozen other people. After a few days you start to recognize them; you even start waving at each other when you pass. It's totally like Antarctica.
Karma be damned. Do you honestly think you are inherently superior to the Indian companies, just because you are American?
These firms derive their characteristic competitive advantage from their ability to exploit their workforce in ways that would not be legal in the United States, and this is what most people object to with outsourcing. Nobody's "inherently superior".
Actually this sounds a lot like a negative review I read about the gameplay in Grand Theft Auto IV. The guy was complaining that you try to run along a ledge and your character leaps off instead, etc. But still I bet GTA IV is a better UI for a prison guard than what you're using now. If it were running a UI based on the GTA IV engine, XP could still be appropriate for a prison control room.
While I despise them as a group there are a few I like. If you just have a fuzzy blanket hatred for them as a group, you're actually giving each one of them individually a pass- you basically have no opinion of them or their behavior. If your Congressman keeps voting for evil shit, it doesn't matter, because when the election comes you'll hate his opponent too.
Not that google isn't useful, but if my neurologist wasn't familiar with the side effects of the drugs he prescribes, I would look for another neurologist. For those very rare drugs, how about looking in an actual real drug reference instead?
Many of these drug side effects are unknown or recently discovered and aren't in the drug references, which are derived from patient reports anyway.
Not knowing the medical specifics, it is possible that what she is experiencing isn't caused by drug therapy.
But knowing the medical specifics, it is impossible.
Anyone else noticed that almost all Web 2.0 applications are strongly centralised and cannot survive a central server outage? Not really how we expected the Internet to develop.
They'll survive outages of your own computer, don't they? When all your little friends in your network lose their Internet connections, does the site go down? I mean I'm sure global thermonuclear war would knock Facebook off the net (thank God) but these days most non-DoD networks are not being designed with a narrow focus on global thermonuclear war.
At the clinic I go to, they have a browser set up in each office. (And it's password protected, so you can't surf while you're waiting in the room for a half hour.) The neurologist is always whirling around and Googling stuff during the appointment. If he suggests a drug and I've heard people bitching about its side effects, I tell him and he does a quick Google search before suggesting something else. My wife's doctor, OTOH, disregards her own complaints of drug side effects that she's experiencing, and refuses to change the prescription. "I've never heard of that." They could open a five minute med school where they give you a 3G wireless Internet card, a DEA number, and then spend four minutes teaching you how to have an attitude.
I saw that huge blue header jump at me when the page loaded and for a second I was totally incapacitated with fear- I thought oh no I must have clicked on a myspace link!
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Captain speaking... We're going to have to make an emergency landing in Las Vegas since one of our passengers has a collar that keeps shocking him and it's glowing blue with an error message. And now I'd like to ask that a passenger- General Protection Fault- or anyone who knows the General- please ask a stewardess to escort you up front to the cockpit, because we have some questions for you.
And we're experiencing a bit of turbulence although it's not too bad although we've certainly had a lot of turbulence on this flight and if anything new happens with the turbulence we will be making an announcement because we like to keep our passengers informed of any turbulence we encounter. Thank you.
Ok, so you use this algorithm, checked the results and find the result is wrong. Guess what!! YOU HAVE JUST WON $1,000,000 because you have proved the Reinmann Conjecture is wrong. But that won't help you very much if you are using it to calculate a re-entry trajectory.
If you won the $1,000,000, you could easily just hire someone who can calculate the re-entry trajectory if disproving the Riemann conjecture doesn't help.
Of course the ultimate would be to demonstrate the proof or disproof of the Riemann conjecture using a rechargeable lithium battery that is efficient enough to win the John McCain Battery Prize. That would earn you a cool $301,000,000 in total.
Very very small mountains. More like molehills, compared to what we should have been able to find by now. What we have been unable to find is far more telling than what we have found.
What have we been unable to find then?
Radio-carbon dating is less accurate than using a random-number generator. It relies on far too many assumptions. There are other dating methods that are more likely to be close to the truth, although none of them have a particularly good track record.
What's wrong with isochron dating? It only assumes that the isotope ratios in a rock don't change unless the rock melts. FWIW carbon dating is for archaeologists, not paleontologists.
I can show you gravity in action, to your face, on video, and to crowds. Evolutionary theory is based on guesses and unproven scientific methods (such as radio dating), and fossil "evidence", which is circumstantial at best.
Gravity is both a fact and a theory. The fact is clear to everyone, and the theory is fundamentally unresolved. You may think you understand the theory of gravity, but you do not.
And all historical sciences are based on circumstantial evidence, since we have no witnesses.
Evolution is more than science for many people - including scientists. It's becomes a religious belief, and those who hold it defend it emotionally - they are as closed-minded as those on the other side of the fence. Critical discussion about and examination of all things should be encouraged.
No. Both sides do not always have valid points- sometimes you're wrong. Stupid is stupid. It isn't "religious" just to call out stupidity when you see it.
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The analysts are not idiots. They write these articles for companies (unless the company writes the article itself and emails it in) and it's a pretty sure bet that this one was written by someone who hopes to sell something not very mouselike.
They may figure out how to read eye movements. I used to work for a guy who now has a startup where the idea is, nobody can see you typing in your PIN if you just look at the numbers and the camera is watching your eyes. But a touchscreen? A touchscreen is a good device for a UI which needs to be more intuitive than comfortable. That's why you see them at ATMs and in lobbies, where you only want to mess with it for a few minutes, and on small handheld devices where the ergonomics are irrelevant. But if you're using this interface at a job where you sit in front of it all day, you don't want to be holding your hand in the air.
Actually with that transporter technology they had, I always wondered why they had to go to the bathroom at all.
During the Apollo missions they just put the, uh, stuff in plastic bags and tossed it out the porthole. Nobody complained.
Yeah, isn't that a bitch... there could be a bag of Apollo astronaut shit out there with your name on it. Imagine getting beaned in the side of your space helmet by an ancient bowel movement traveling around the earth at several km/s... although they were on a diet of soft foods so that might soften the blow a little.
Where, Antarctica or Death Valley?
Go spring or fall... crank up the Harley and pack some doob... bring a camera... stuff your ugly bitch in the seat behind you... and stay at Panamint Springs (the other places are run by contractors with federal NPS contracts).
There is NOBODY there. It's a space as big as Connecticut and you have it all to yourself and maybe a few dozen other people. After a few days you start to recognize them; you even start waving at each other when you pass. It's totally like Antarctica.
Because it's going to be hacked! :P
Karma be damned. Do you honestly think you are inherently superior to the Indian companies, just because you are American?
These firms derive their characteristic competitive advantage from their ability to exploit their workforce in ways that would not be legal in the United States, and this is what most people object to with outsourcing. Nobody's "inherently superior".
They contrast this with the Milky Way, which only produces an average of 10 each year.
I live in the most boring galaxy!
They need to be polished and maintained and repositioned throughout the day to maximize efficiency.
The kind of work Americans won't do!
The sun will start getting brighter about a billion years from now.
Did you see your cellphone in "My Bluetooth Places"?
Actually this sounds a lot like a negative review I read about the gameplay in Grand Theft Auto IV. The guy was complaining that you try to run along a ledge and your character leaps off instead, etc. But still I bet GTA IV is a better UI for a prison guard than what you're using now. If it were running a UI based on the GTA IV engine, XP could still be appropriate for a prison control room.
What did your daughter do to make it crash? :)
It's entirely possible some of his opponents are just as evil.
Then you and I agree.
While I despise them as a group there are a few I like. If you just have a fuzzy blanket hatred for them as a group, you're actually giving each one of them individually a pass- you basically have no opinion of them or their behavior. If your Congressman keeps voting for evil shit, it doesn't matter, because when the election comes you'll hate his opponent too.
Not that google isn't useful, but if my neurologist wasn't familiar with the side effects of the drugs he prescribes, I would look for another neurologist. For those very rare drugs, how about looking in an actual real drug reference instead?
Many of these drug side effects are unknown or recently discovered and aren't in the drug references, which are derived from patient reports anyway.
Not knowing the medical specifics, it is possible that what she is experiencing isn't caused by drug therapy.
But knowing the medical specifics, it is impossible.
Anyone else noticed that almost all Web 2.0 applications are strongly centralised and cannot survive a central server outage? Not really how we expected the Internet to develop.
They'll survive outages of your own computer, don't they? When all your little friends in your network lose their Internet connections, does the site go down? I mean I'm sure global thermonuclear war would knock Facebook off the net (thank God) but these days most non-DoD networks are not being designed with a narrow focus on global thermonuclear war.
At the clinic I go to, they have a browser set up in each office. (And it's password protected, so you can't surf while you're waiting in the room for a half hour.) The neurologist is always whirling around and Googling stuff during the appointment. If he suggests a drug and I've heard people bitching about its side effects, I tell him and he does a quick Google search before suggesting something else. My wife's doctor, OTOH, disregards her own complaints of drug side effects that she's experiencing, and refuses to change the prescription. "I've never heard of that." They could open a five minute med school where they give you a 3G wireless Internet card, a DEA number, and then spend four minutes teaching you how to have an attitude.
I saw that huge blue header jump at me when the page loaded and for a second I was totally incapacitated with fear- I thought oh no I must have clicked on a myspace link!
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Captain speaking... We're going to have to make an emergency landing in Las Vegas since one of our passengers has a collar that keeps shocking him and it's glowing blue with an error message. And now I'd like to ask that a passenger- General Protection Fault- or anyone who knows the General- please ask a stewardess to escort you up front to the cockpit, because we have some questions for you.
And we're experiencing a bit of turbulence although it's not too bad although we've certainly had a lot of turbulence on this flight and if anything new happens with the turbulence we will be making an announcement because we like to keep our passengers informed of any turbulence we encounter. Thank you.
...why not just show them Slashdot's new interface?
"...These are not the droids we're looking for."
You weak minded fool! He's got a Jedi mind gun!"
Ok, so you use this algorithm, checked the results and find the result is wrong. Guess what!! YOU HAVE JUST WON $1,000,000 because you have proved the Reinmann Conjecture is wrong. But that won't help you very much if you are using it to calculate a re-entry trajectory.
If you won the $1,000,000, you could easily just hire someone who can calculate the re-entry trajectory if disproving the Riemann conjecture doesn't help.
Of course the ultimate would be to demonstrate the proof or disproof of the Riemann conjecture using a rechargeable lithium battery that is efficient enough to win the John McCain Battery Prize. That would earn you a cool $301,000,000 in total.
Perhaps, someone could elaborate on how they are slimey. This appears to be an attempt to protect people.
Yes, it's a very well-intentioned DDoS attack.
Very very small mountains. More like molehills, compared to what we should have been able to find by now. What we have been unable to find is far more telling than what we have found.
What have we been unable to find then?
Radio-carbon dating is less accurate than using a random-number generator. It relies on far too many assumptions. There are other dating methods that are more likely to be close to the truth, although none of them have a particularly good track record.
What's wrong with isochron dating? It only assumes that the isotope ratios in a rock don't change unless the rock melts. FWIW carbon dating is for archaeologists, not paleontologists.
I can show you gravity in action, to your face, on video, and to crowds. Evolutionary theory is based on guesses and unproven scientific methods (such as radio dating), and fossil "evidence", which is circumstantial at best.
Gravity is both a fact and a theory. The fact is clear to everyone, and the theory is fundamentally unresolved. You may think you understand the theory of gravity, but you do not.
And all historical sciences are based on circumstantial evidence, since we have no witnesses.
Evolution is more than science for many people - including scientists. It's becomes a religious belief, and those who hold it defend it emotionally - they are as closed-minded as those on the other side of the fence. Critical discussion about and examination of all things should be encouraged.
No. Both sides do not always have valid points- sometimes you're wrong. Stupid is stupid. It isn't "religious" just to call out stupidity when you see it.