According to the report they degraded the USA from "full democracy" to "flawed democracy" in 2016 due to events happening in the country.
This seems contradictory to Trump's announcement to clean up with the corruption in Washington, and to "dry up the swamp". Also, what is more like a democracy, a country where the mainstream media always totally agree with the government, or one in which the government has to fight the media? Isn't it a great thing that media stops believing and printing the statements of the government as facts and starts creating fact checking teams?
You see the "correct" cannidate lost and but would (might have hypothitcly) have won if the rules were changed different AND the cannidates campaigned the same. So Obviously it had nothing to do with the Correct cannidate being a uncharismatic unexciting corupt crook that would be a rerun of the same administration from the 90s without the womanising and charisma of their other half. So because NY and CA didn't get their way we are a broken democracy.
(I didn't vote for trump or clinton but I did vote)
Back in the day Apple had Human Interface Guidelines. And I understand that Microsoft did too.
IBM had "Common User Access" (CUA), and Microsoft had "Consistent User Interface" (CUI) guidelines, which were roughly comparable to Apple's. Following those guidelines might not be as visually attractive as some of the crap being designed today, but at least it meant that people could get acclimated to your product quickly and with a minimum of confusion. In the world of UIs today, there's way too much frosting and not nearly enough cake.
When I was taking some programming classes not all that long a ago the professor made a point of going over IBM and Windows guidelines that you mentioned, he also distributed pdf's of them, as I recall programs written by student were to use sensible UI's and be readable/accessible so it had to be colour-blind safe and visually impaired safe so contrast was required between background and content. In another course same professor on website design things also had to be standard compliant (everything had to pass a w3c html and css validator) and and to be simi-usable by a screen reader and text mode browser like elinks or w3m.
Great old unix hacker too. Retired now unfortunately.
I love a powerful woman. I'm more than happy to let a woman drive, literally or figuratively. Not that one, though. Warren, sure. Clinton? No.
I would have voted for Warren if she had been on the ticket as it was I voted for Gery Johnson the Libertarian candidate because I could bring myself to vote for either the red or the blue sociopaths and the greens are too nuts for me (being against nuclear power, hydro-power, vaccination, and more). I do wish more people would vote independent of the big two. (If they did we might have gotten to watch John Macafe (Independent) debate and who would want to watch him on stage trolling trump)
I actually have thought about going to plan9 (or a plan9 from userspace with a linux kernal) it looks nice enough but I will probably do that around the time I finally decide to run gentoo (something I mean to do eventually someday when I have the time and dont need to have my main PC actually operable for a few weeks but never actually get around to doing)
I've decided that Democrats should be considered enemy combatants.
And what exactly are you gonna do about that, you fuckwit?
If you come, you better come heavy. Because Democrats have been dealing with poncy little whigs like you since Andrew Jackson.
psst... Just so you know Andrew Jackson was a Democrat (and is even considered by some the founder of the party) and a pretty horrible person oh and one of the worst presidents ever. "Trail of Tears" that was his doing. Yeah it was the Dems that presided over that little genocide, and flaunted an order by The Supreme Court to do it too.
Not if ALL Hitlery voters moved to Stein. You'd then have a Dem-Green coalition up against Trump.
To get a Dem-Green coalition together you would probably need a Dem to lead the ticket maybe some one like Al Fraken, I can see it now FrakenStien2016 But the Midwest wouldn't vote for that they would just get the torches and pitchforks out...
I don't need a weatherman to tell me it _might_ rain. I knew that when I woke up. I felt good about myself knowing I didn't have to go to college to know this.
Now I'm feeling really intelligent because I've long known AI could be bad (Terminator) or good (I Robot, Terminator) without all of the unnecessary academics.
Holiday Inn Express has done so much for me!
You do realise "I, Robot" was more a book about debugging errors in A.I.'s not about them helping or hurting humanity.
Glad to see it isn't just the cubicle drones that have to put up with this crap.
Yeah but the drones aren't allowed to abuse/distroy the hard/software or equipment in a fit of rage. I know some systems I would like to do that with. (especial the f#cking automation software that shits itself every daylights savings time change, Oh sure the firm that makes it claim they have fixed for reals this time, twice a year.) but I digress...
why do cops have a Credit Card reader in their squad car? I'd heard stories of some cops taking payment for tickets when they pull you over and threatening jail time if you don't pay then and there...
Doesn't the back of your drivers license have a magnetic stripe on it? Every state license I have had for the last 10+ years has had one. The data is typically Latin-1 ASCII encoded binary data across multiple magnetic tracks. The data was probably readable on the card, the officer just didn't understand what it meant.
Embarrass the kremlin leadership? Shit, their job's already been done for them:P
This is a country where the dictator regularly posts simi-homoerotic shirtless pictures of himself. Go ahead and try to embarrass him. Just remember when the DOD tried to launch a online anti-IslamicState social media campaign they actually ended up encouraging more people to join.
Ed doesn't have undo. Ed is for those who can remember what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED “VISUAL” EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!! ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!
When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!! TEXT EDITOR.
When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their “edlin” on a Unix standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.
For coffee it's cool to just set the time, because if it sits for some time it's no biggie, but for tea (or if you use a French Press or Aero Press), where the kettle will eventually become cool, and need to be reheated.
I'm not trying to claim it's some earth shattering breakthrough, but having a kettle of perfect temp water when I walk down stairs is exactly the type of mild convenience I would hope IoT provides 1000 different little ways a day.
Do I need it? no. Will it mildly improve the quality of my life? yes.
my parents have that without the "smarts" a coffee maker that goes of at the time you set and has a vacuum thermos for the carafe. keeps the coffee hot untill you wake up
You know full well that in this case free just means they aren't charging any money for it. It doesn't mean that they are giving away their rights on these books and so they don't have to make them available for a straight anonymous download. They do these sorts of deals to get potential customers to their site. If you could just at hand out anonymous links to the books then it would fail their goal.
If you don't want to give them you details then don't get the books. Easy!
Or use a disposable email account and junk info like I always do for crap like that, I wonder how much crap info VMWare Cisco or others has in their DB's from people like me giving fake info they demand everytime you download VMWare Player, or cisco drivers
Women keep their phones in their purses. That's why women actually want bigger phones than men, on average, because men care about them fitting into their pockets, whereas women have plenty of room for a phone/phablet in their purses.
I don't know about that I carry a 7" tablet with me almost everywhere. I put it in my jacket pocket if I am not wearing one I just carry it in my hand no biggy. I also have a dumb-phone to make calls with. Of course I am not your "average joe sixpack" and wish my tablet was debian rather than android my experience may not be standard.
If you're hosting an event such as this, you should anticipate and plan for the needs.
Go to a sporting event, like an NFL game, and see how 60,000+ fans tax your RF environment. You solve the problem.
Hofstra could have handled this better, or the Debate Commission could have. The method they chose is subject to some criticism, isn't it?
Funny you mention WiFi at sporting events last month I went to a baseball game in Seattle with my father and the Free stadium WiFi was faster than the internet speed I get at home.
What the fuck is Verizon going to do with Yahoo! and now Twitter?
Replace their sms service with manadatory public twitter feeds. put non removable yahoo apps on all their devices that will suck up data to give you a stream of clickbat-y headlines for yahoo news, BestOfTumblerFeed, and other crap you don't want.
Slashdot Mirror
To late
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Prime Minister David Cameron "Allegedly" was willingly orally stimulated by a deceased pigs head during a fraternity hazing.
According to the report they degraded the USA from "full democracy" to "flawed democracy" in 2016 due to events happening in the country.
This seems contradictory to Trump's announcement to clean up with the corruption in Washington, and to "dry up the swamp". Also, what is more like a democracy, a country where the mainstream media always totally agree with the government, or one in which the government has to fight the media? Isn't it a great thing that media stops believing and printing the statements of the government as facts and starts creating fact checking teams?
You see the "correct" cannidate lost and but would (might have hypothitcly) have won if the rules were changed different AND the cannidates campaigned the same. So Obviously it had nothing to do with the Correct cannidate being a uncharismatic unexciting corupt crook that would be a rerun of the same administration from the 90s without the womanising and charisma of their other half. So because NY and CA didn't get their way we are a broken democracy.
(I didn't vote for trump or clinton but I did vote)
WTF?! Something is obviously wrong with their methodology.
yeah the other 15% either bribed or balckmailed the researchers into changing the results in their favour
Back in the day Apple had Human Interface Guidelines. And I understand that Microsoft did too.
IBM had "Common User Access" (CUA), and Microsoft had "Consistent User Interface" (CUI) guidelines, which were roughly comparable to Apple's. Following those guidelines might not be as visually attractive as some of the crap being designed today, but at least it meant that people could get acclimated to your product quickly and with a minimum of confusion. In the world of UIs today, there's way too much frosting and not nearly enough cake.
When I was taking some programming classes not all that long a ago the professor made a point of going over IBM and Windows guidelines that you mentioned, he also distributed pdf's of them, as I recall programs written by student were to use sensible UI's and be readable/accessible so it had to be colour-blind safe and visually impaired safe so contrast was required between background and content. In another course same professor on website design things also had to be standard compliant (everything had to pass a w3c html and css validator) and and to be simi-usable by a screen reader and text mode browser like elinks or w3m.
Great old unix hacker too. Retired now unfortunately.
...We're unfortunately stuck in the time line where the US starts a nuclear winter because someone in China called him fat.
at least we won't have to worry about global warming then.
I love a powerful woman. I'm more than happy to let a woman drive, literally or figuratively. Not that one, though. Warren, sure. Clinton? No.
I would have voted for Warren if she had been on the ticket as it was I voted for Gery Johnson the Libertarian candidate because I could bring myself to vote for either the red or the blue sociopaths and the greens are too nuts for me (being against nuclear power, hydro-power, vaccination, and more). I do wish more people would vote independent of the big two. (If they did we might have gotten to watch John Macafe (Independent) debate and who would want to watch him on stage trolling trump)
Do you have a name of a company?
amazon their tablets while having lower specs are $40 and have a microsd card slot
I actually have thought about going to plan9 (or a plan9 from userspace with a linux kernal) it looks nice enough but I will probably do that around the time I finally decide to run gentoo (something I mean to do eventually someday when I have the time and dont need to have my main PC actually operable for a few weeks but never actually get around to doing)
And what exactly are you gonna do about that, you fuckwit?
If you come, you better come heavy. Because Democrats have been dealing with poncy little whigs like you since Andrew Jackson.
psst... Just so you know Andrew Jackson was a Democrat (and is even considered by some the founder of the party) and a pretty horrible person oh and one of the worst presidents ever. "Trail of Tears" that was his doing. Yeah it was the Dems that presided over that little genocide, and flaunted an order by The Supreme Court to do it too.
Not if ALL Hitlery voters moved to Stein. You'd then have a Dem-Green coalition up against Trump.
To get a Dem-Green coalition together you would probably need a Dem to lead the ticket maybe some one like Al Fraken, I can see it now
FrakenStien2016
But the Midwest wouldn't vote for that they would just get the torches and pitchforks out...
I wonder how many people just like me with no intention whatsoever for voting for a Republican nonetheless voted (or in my case caucused) for Trump?
If he wins I am blaming you.
And by supporters they mean GRU
So thats why he went silent he was eaten by a gru
Did it really? I'm in the US and I didn't notice anything.
Me neither. I am on the West Coast, and I heard it mainly affected the East Coast, but my East Coast friends say they didn't notice anything either.
Did anyone actually notice this "outage"?
Nah but I use my own domain name servers. I just always install bind9 on all of my Linux computers and configure them to use it for lookups.
I don't need a weatherman to tell me it _might_ rain. I knew that when I woke up. I felt good about myself knowing I didn't have to go to college to know this.
Now I'm feeling really intelligent because I've long known AI could be bad (Terminator) or good (I Robot, Terminator) without all of the unnecessary academics.
Holiday Inn Express has done so much for me!
You do realise "I, Robot" was more a book about debugging errors in A.I.'s not about them helping or hurting humanity.
Glad to see it isn't just the cubicle drones that have to put up with this crap.
Yeah but the drones aren't allowed to abuse/distroy the hard/software or equipment in a fit of rage. I know some systems I would like to do that with. (especial the f#cking automation software that shits itself every daylights savings time change, Oh sure the firm that makes it claim they have fixed for reals this time, twice a year.) but I digress...
why do cops have a Credit Card reader in their squad car? I'd heard stories of some cops taking payment for tickets when they pull you over and threatening jail time if you don't pay then and there...
Doesn't the back of your drivers license have a magnetic stripe on it? Every state license I have had for the last 10+ years has had one. The data is typically Latin-1 ASCII encoded binary data across multiple magnetic tracks. The data was probably readable on the card, the officer just didn't understand what it meant.
Washington State does not
Embarrass the kremlin leadership? Shit, their job's already been done for them :P
This is a country where the dictator regularly posts simi-homoerotic shirtless pictures of himself. Go ahead and try to embarrass him. Just remember when the DOD tried to launch a online anti-IslamicState social media campaign they actually ended up encouraging more people to join.
You don't use programs that have Undo?
Ed doesn't have undo.
Ed is for those who can remember what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED “VISUAL” EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!
ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!
When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!! TEXT EDITOR.
When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their “edlin” on a Unix standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.
For coffee it's cool to just set the time, because if it sits for some time it's no biggie, but for tea (or if you use a French Press or Aero Press), where the kettle will eventually become cool, and need to be reheated.
I'm not trying to claim it's some earth shattering breakthrough, but having a kettle of perfect temp water when I walk down stairs is exactly the type of mild convenience I would hope IoT provides 1000 different little ways a day.
Do I need it? no. Will it mildly improve the quality of my life? yes.
my parents have that without the "smarts" a coffee maker that goes of at the time you set and has a vacuum thermos for the carafe. keeps the coffee hot untill you wake up
You know full well that in this case free just means they aren't charging any money for it. It doesn't mean that they are giving away their rights on these books and so they don't have to make them available for a straight anonymous download. They do these sorts of deals to get potential customers to their site. If you could just at hand out anonymous links to the books then it would fail their goal.
If you don't want to give them you details then don't get the books. Easy!
Or use a disposable email account and junk info like I always do for crap like that, I wonder how much crap info VMWare Cisco or others has in their DB's from people like me giving fake info they demand everytime you download VMWare Player, or cisco drivers
At what cost?
Letting the terrorist win... for the childern... in soviet russia.
Are they running the POS or embeded that are still getting updates? Just saying XP isn't exactly helpful.
Women keep their phones in their purses. That's why women actually want bigger phones than men, on average, because men care about them fitting into their pockets, whereas women have plenty of room for a phone/phablet in their purses.
I don't know about that I carry a 7" tablet with me almost everywhere. I put it in my jacket pocket if I am not wearing one I just carry it in my hand no biggy. I also have a dumb-phone to make calls with. Of course I am not your "average joe sixpack" and wish my tablet was debian rather than android my experience may not be standard.
If you're hosting an event such as this, you should anticipate and plan for the needs.
Go to a sporting event, like an NFL game, and see how 60,000+ fans tax your RF environment. You solve the problem.
Hofstra could have handled this better, or the Debate Commission could have. The method they chose is subject to some criticism, isn't it?
Funny you mention WiFi at sporting events last month I went to a baseball game in Seattle with my father and the Free stadium WiFi was faster than the internet speed I get at home.
What the fuck is Verizon going to do with Yahoo! and now Twitter?
Replace their sms service with manadatory public twitter feeds. put non removable yahoo apps on all their devices that will suck up data to give you a stream of clickbat-y headlines for yahoo news, BestOfTumblerFeed, and other crap you don't want.