I like what Safari on iPhone does... The URL bar is at the top of the page, so when you scroll down it scrolls off the top. That seems like a good compromise.
The international team of researchers looked at 1,037 children in New Zealand born in the early 1970s, observing their levels of self-control at ages 3 and 5.
The researchers had a very strong temptation to find another 300 children to study, but being successful scientists were able to exhibit self-control.
Not that I disagree with you, but there is a pretty wide gap between saying something like this on the Internet and actually following through with it in the real world.
I'm sure "give me liberty or give me death" was just as rarely followed through on then as today. I would like to think that there are a rare few today, as before, that would follow through. The OP may or may not be one of those few. That does not detract from his point.
This is a good example of a solution devised by an engineer. Somehow they think that peering at icons, dragging and dropping them, and organizing them into a hierarchy is really something the average user would want to do. The average user will find this solution worse than the problem. A better solution is to simply do what Chrome does and open new tabs next to the originating tab. It doesn't solve all the world's problems, but it's automatic and solves a couple of them.
I have to ask: Is it no longer a steaming pile of security holes? Seriously, most people I know have given up blogs and moved to Facebook or some hosted blogging service to get their message out. After getting hacked a couple of times I've put it in the same category as PHPNuke -- too much trouble to be worth it to anyone for whom it's not their job.
For years now I have to listen very closely to hear the fan when my laptop is running at 100% CPU and fan. (Unlike my old Dell, which sounded like a harrier.)
If there's one company who I think can do this right it's Apple.
The secret to good programming has always been to keep it simple - this is twice as important in C++, and the language has some great features for doing so, but you really have to understand what it is you are trying to achieve.
Why is it that this reply is insightful for C++ but would be funny for Perl?
The big deal for CS5 is apparently Premiere, which runs like a slideshow without GPU acceleration.
You seem to be suggesting that GPUs will become commodities and integrated into the CPU. For a lot of people that is true... I'm sure that there are plenty of laptop users for whom Aero is the toughest graphics they'll ever require. And I agree that trying to hold on to a market while there is a race to the commodity bottom is stupid.
But the discrete GPU is far from being subsumed by the CPU. See the Larrabee failure. Besides it being really hard to do video and 3D efficiently using a general-purpose CPU, there are tons of patents covering the tricky bits of making it go fast.
First, I'm colorblind. I'd say it impacts me maybe 1% of my life. Graphs at work must use primary colors. Earlier in life I had the damnedest time with resistor markings. Even now when I crimp CAT5 cable I have someone double-check the colors. For a lot of colorblind people, they can detect the colors, it's just really hard and they have to stare and concentrate. Of course total colorblindness (no color at all) is a different, more rarer condition.
What I wanted to point out though is that earlier in the thread someone got chastised for asking what people would think about a "cure" for gayness if it turned out to be due to a genetic difference. The reason that's a good question is that, unlike colorblindness, it brings into the picture concepts of self-identity and culture. AFAIK no one identifies strongly as being colorblind, or considers themselves part of the "colorblind community".
We ran into this exact problem with my son, who has the Connexin 26 mutation, making him profoundly deaf. We were faced with a choice regarding the "cure" of cochlear implants. The deaf community is strongly against them, in large part because they see the coming demise of sign language and their culture (IMHO). They would go so far as to use disingenuous arguments like "let the child decide when they are 18"--way after the period of language acquisition. In the end we decided that being deaf wasn't "normal" despite what the deaf community said. Was that elitism or practicality? Being deaf has a much bigger impact on one's life than being colorblind.
They shouldn't need to have a fingerprint scan to measure hours worked, because they shouldn't be treating employees like liars. To the extent that there are liars on the payroll, that's their fault for hiring such people.
I would refuse to do it on the grounds above, and wait for them to fire you. This forces them to decide whether you're more valuable than their stupid belief that you might lie about your hours. I'm sure you can get another job if they can't.
That said, I use a security badge every day I go in the office, and I'm sure that's logged... The difference is that they can easily deactivate my old badge and issue a new one. If their system is compromise, they can't issue you new thumbs. Plus there's the lop-off-the-thumbs incentive...
It takes a while to load because Office has probably already pre-loaded most of itself and just pops up a main window when you open a document. Ever wonder why Windows is so slow to boot?
Um... Are you sure about this? I've heard that MS has a tool that automatically studies binary code dependencies and pushes rarely used stuff to DLLs. So MS Office starts up faster because it's only loading the commonly used core... then later when you select some function like grammar checking it loads up the DLL (which is why the first use of such functionality takes a little longer).
I think Windows taking a long time to boot has more to do with other stuff, including pre-loading IE, where your criticism holds more water. (MS decided to integrate IE into a lot of stuff in order to make it a core component of the OS.)
If you're willing to get your hands a little dirty, check out unRAID. You put the OS (linux) and software on a flash drive and boot from that. You have a big parity drive and a bunch of data drives that are just ReiserFS. The user share feature can aggregate all your files into one big virtual filesystem. When you run out of space you just pop another drive in, or pop out a small drive and put a larger on in, then wait for the data to be rebuilt from parity. You don't have to worry about your RAID controller dying, or a two disk failure (you'll still have the other disks of data). I built my machine for maybe a couple hundred bucks, and just added my 7th disk. I have smaller disks in there, but don't bother to remove them.
Odds are you're pretty smart and will figure it out on your own, but you have to get practice. Someone mentioned dance lessons, which is good. (The downside there is that you'll be surrounded by divorcees.) A dance class at the nearest college would work better. Also think about donating your time to a charity like habitat for humanity. If you're the church-going type, hit the singles group at your nearest megachurch. If you're considering a job, head to a big city like NYC where everyone is new and looking for friends.
You'll probably find that it's easier than you thought, in which case take a number of data points before fitting your curve and choosing the representative sample.:)
I think N Korea is pushing for the bomb for the same reason that Iran wants it, and why Pakistan wanted it... It gives them a seat at the grown-up table.
Everyone treats the 5-year-old holding a gun with a lot of respect.
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I like what Safari on iPhone does... The URL bar is at the top of the page, so when you scroll down it scrolls off the top. That seems like a good compromise.
"WikiLeaks is one of this century's most important contributors to freedom of speech and transparency"
I guess that's true... The century is still pretty young.
Doesn't this absolutely totally violate the google terms of service?
The researchers had a very strong temptation to find another 300 children to study, but being successful scientists were able to exhibit self-control.
Most murder convictions are made on circumstantial evidence.
And let's also not forget that even though you have a suspicious browsing history, your wife is not dead by poison.
Careful there. The US delivers more babies that are premature, which skews the stats.
I'm sure "give me liberty or give me death" was just as rarely followed through on then as today. I would like to think that there are a rare few today, as before, that would follow through. The OP may or may not be one of those few. That does not detract from his point.
If it's publicly funded, shouldn't the research results be publicly available?
So I took a course in quantum... Can anyone explain what "if quantum mechanics is nonlinear" means? Sounds like gobbledigook to me.
This is a good example of a solution devised by an engineer. Somehow they think that peering at icons, dragging and dropping them, and organizing them into a hierarchy is really something the average user would want to do. The average user will find this solution worse than the problem. A better solution is to simply do what Chrome does and open new tabs next to the originating tab. It doesn't solve all the world's problems, but it's automatic and solves a couple of them.
Pigeon call? As in pigeons have the best booty?
I have to ask: Is it no longer a steaming pile of security holes? Seriously, most people I know have given up blogs and moved to Facebook or some hosted blogging service to get their message out. After getting hacked a couple of times I've put it in the same category as PHPNuke -- too much trouble to be worth it to anyone for whom it's not their job.
For years now I have to listen very closely to hear the fan when my laptop is running at 100% CPU and fan. (Unlike my old Dell, which sounded like a harrier.)
If there's one company who I think can do this right it's Apple.
Why is it that this reply is insightful for C++ but would be funny for Perl?
The big deal for CS5 is apparently Premiere, which runs like a slideshow without GPU acceleration.
You seem to be suggesting that GPUs will become commodities and integrated into the CPU. For a lot of people that is true... I'm sure that there are plenty of laptop users for whom Aero is the toughest graphics they'll ever require. And I agree that trying to hold on to a market while there is a race to the commodity bottom is stupid.
But the discrete GPU is far from being subsumed by the CPU. See the Larrabee failure. Besides it being really hard to do video and 3D efficiently using a general-purpose CPU, there are tons of patents covering the tricky bits of making it go fast.
Your perspective is a little short-sighted... I remember when CPUs were barely able to play MP3s. Have you heard that CS5 will be GPU accelerated?
(Disclaimer: I work for NVIDIA)
A few thoughts...
First, I'm colorblind. I'd say it impacts me maybe 1% of my life. Graphs at work must use primary colors. Earlier in life I had the damnedest time with resistor markings. Even now when I crimp CAT5 cable I have someone double-check the colors. For a lot of colorblind people, they can detect the colors, it's just really hard and they have to stare and concentrate. Of course total colorblindness (no color at all) is a different, more rarer condition.
What I wanted to point out though is that earlier in the thread someone got chastised for asking what people would think about a "cure" for gayness if it turned out to be due to a genetic difference. The reason that's a good question is that, unlike colorblindness, it brings into the picture concepts of self-identity and culture. AFAIK no one identifies strongly as being colorblind, or considers themselves part of the "colorblind community".
We ran into this exact problem with my son, who has the Connexin 26 mutation, making him profoundly deaf. We were faced with a choice regarding the "cure" of cochlear implants. The deaf community is strongly against them, in large part because they see the coming demise of sign language and their culture (IMHO). They would go so far as to use disingenuous arguments like "let the child decide when they are 18"--way after the period of language acquisition. In the end we decided that being deaf wasn't "normal" despite what the deaf community said. Was that elitism or practicality? Being deaf has a much bigger impact on one's life than being colorblind.
They shouldn't need to have a fingerprint scan to measure hours worked, because they shouldn't be treating employees like liars. To the extent that there are liars on the payroll, that's their fault for hiring such people.
I would refuse to do it on the grounds above, and wait for them to fire you. This forces them to decide whether you're more valuable than their stupid belief that you might lie about your hours. I'm sure you can get another job if they can't.
That said, I use a security badge every day I go in the office, and I'm sure that's logged... The difference is that they can easily deactivate my old badge and issue a new one. If their system is compromise, they can't issue you new thumbs. Plus there's the lop-off-the-thumbs incentive...
Um... Are you sure about this? I've heard that MS has a tool that automatically studies binary code dependencies and pushes rarely used stuff to DLLs. So MS Office starts up faster because it's only loading the commonly used core... then later when you select some function like grammar checking it loads up the DLL (which is why the first use of such functionality takes a little longer).
I think Windows taking a long time to boot has more to do with other stuff, including pre-loading IE, where your criticism holds more water. (MS decided to integrate IE into a lot of stuff in order to make it a core component of the OS.)
... and I'll say it again: unRAID
If you're willing to get your hands a little dirty, check out unRAID. You put the OS (linux) and software on a flash drive and boot from that. You have a big parity drive and a bunch of data drives that are just ReiserFS. The user share feature can aggregate all your files into one big virtual filesystem. When you run out of space you just pop another drive in, or pop out a small drive and put a larger on in, then wait for the data to be rebuilt from parity. You don't have to worry about your RAID controller dying, or a two disk failure (you'll still have the other disks of data). I built my machine for maybe a couple hundred bucks, and just added my 7th disk. I have smaller disks in there, but don't bother to remove them.
Odds are you're pretty smart and will figure it out on your own, but you have to get practice. Someone mentioned dance lessons, which is good. (The downside there is that you'll be surrounded by divorcees.) A dance class at the nearest college would work better. Also think about donating your time to a charity like habitat for humanity. If you're the church-going type, hit the singles group at your nearest megachurch. If you're considering a job, head to a big city like NYC where everyone is new and looking for friends.
:)
You'll probably find that it's easier than you thought, in which case take a number of data points before fitting your curve and choosing the representative sample.
I think N Korea is pushing for the bomb for the same reason that Iran wants it, and why Pakistan wanted it... It gives them a seat at the grown-up table.
Everyone treats the 5-year-old holding a gun with a lot of respect.
In grad school we had an NSA guy give a talk. He remarked that some banks have ponied up in the situation you described.
Is that supposed to be a joke?