If it interferes with something even more basic, it's fine to remove or change it so it doesn't. If I paste a text, I'd like for it not to create subtasks if the text happens to contain tabs. That's even more core.
But to be honest, I wish they would just focus on the basics. Palm (pre-phone era) got this, and made the core apps as simple as possible, always accessible through a single button, and never do or present in unexpected ways. They were useful, not eye candy. But apparently, the new generation care more about form than function. Or don't actually do things that make the core apps useful.
All I want is a version of Amazon prime that is just for fast shipping. I really don't need the music or streaming service which is what I suspect most people don't want either.
I suspect people have different needs and wants. Personally, I would rather pay for delivery the few times I use it, and only get the video streaming service. Not shipping, not music. For a subset of video only, $120 per year does not compare favourable to Netflix and Hulu+. When I buy something online, I prefer to not buy from Amazon, but directly from the producer if possible (it makes warranty a heck of a lot easier), or from someone who has a brick-and-mortar store or local warehouse where I can pick up the purchase within a couple of hours. Even express delivery is slow compared to that.
I'd love to see this bundle be broken, so people can choose which parts they want out of the three, and perhaps get a discount for picking more than one. I'm pretty sure that this bundling of unrelated products would even be illegal in some countries, so Amazon likely has a system in place for split services anyhow.
Thanks for reminding me (I'm female) that many men don't regard me as human!
Huh? How can you possibly read that into what I wrote?
Men and women are animals, and we carry with us some genetic baggage that influence (not dictate) how we tend to behave. The arms race between our genes and their survival depended on it. The drive of the biological imperative is not identical for men and women. This isn't even in dispute, and it says nothing about one gender being superior to the other.
Wow. I've seem some misogynist trolling on Slashdot, but it's far worse when you try to come over all reasonable and matter of fact about it.
People keep telling me we are all equal now and we don't need feminism any more, but then comments like this get modded as "insightful". Lewis' Law still stands.
As I said, I don't think denying the underlying problems are going to help. Pretending that there aren't any biological baggage that need addressing, and that we can get to full equality, trust and respect through fiat is like sticking your fingers in your ears and go NA-NA-NA.
The biological imperative will always be a factor, and we cannot reach equality unless we take it into account.
Women are not aggressive and competitive? Are you kidding? They may be more subtle, but if you want to see backstabbing that could teach George R. R. Martin a few things even he didn't imagine possible, watch a few women try to outdo each other for a high level position.
The ideal team size for women seems to be two. Wherever there are three women, two of them often gang up on and eventually backstab the third. If more than three, the fights to establish the pecking order can become fierce. It's behavior evolved to increase the chances that they capture hearts of the best providers and the sperm of the men other women are most attracted to.
Men have their own natures that don't align well with workplaces, of course, including a natural desire to copulate with any fertile female they can get away with. But their drive to become the stable and successful top dog that women want to have a fling with is aligned with business interests at least some of the time.
How to design workplaces so they both align with our ideals, including equality and full respect for each other no matter what gender, and also takes into account that we humans have inclinations that will affect behavior on a larger scale than individuals... I have no idea. But I don't think denying the underlying problems are going to make them go away.
It's long been known that if you make pages too wide the eye skips from line to line instead of reading across. That's why pages are portrait, it's why newspapers put text in columns.
They should be A4 portrait for work and reading, because that's the format people read in.
The presumptions that (a) everybody use A4, and (b) everybody blow windows up full screen are both wrong.
For (b), the ability to have multiple windows on the screen, each with the geometry you like, not what the manufacturer gave you, is very useful. If you want A4, nothing prevents you from having A4. Even combined with a correct DPI setting, so what you see on-screen will be the exact same size as when printed out. Others might want smaller overlapping windows with Z-order management to increase their productivity.
All that said, for a laptop, the screen ratio is also somewhat linked to the keyboard/touchpad size. If you make the screen wider, you can't compensate by making it less tall, or the touchpad won't fit. So that means bigger laptops with huge top/bottom bezels, which I don't see as a win.
Among my circle of friends there are a few who've been sexually abused as children (more than I can count on one hand, fewer than two - a mix of male and female).
Ah. You have a hand with no fingers and know a hermaphrodite who was sexually abused as a child. Happens to the best of us.
I think he could well be right, but I also think he has the timeline very wrong. 200 years, sure. 100, maybe, although I'm not convinced. But 20? No, I will bet anything that won't be the case.
In the oil crisis in the early 70s, the prediction was that we were going to all be on non-oil heating and transportation well before the turn of the century. Didn't happen. I think it still will, but things just turn around that quickly. Even seriously disruptive technologies like the steam engine and factory machines took generations to take over. Rum wasn't brewed in a day.
Also, adjustment of pacemakers have been done for several generations now - with a couple of screws. It's a tiny incision that doesn't even require a stitch. And it's pretty much hack proof. If anything, wireless adjustments mean more surgery, because the battery will run out much faster. (An Apple iPacemaker would presumably need recharging every night...)
I'd rather have a device with no external connectivity than one that has external connectivity because one is needed by the upgrade mechanism. That just adds a vector for attack where there was none.
Having a Wifi named "remote detonator" is a bomb threat IMO, even if you think it's just a joke.
YO is noted, but is irrelevant. The man on the Clapham omnibus, would not be alarmed by this, and that's the standard we need to go by. There is no need for, nor should there be, making exceptions for the unreasonable.
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Alternatively, one could try to meet women in the physical world. What a concept...
Scary. Give me Solaria.
Learn to dance, you'll love it. Top tip - people tend to make love the way they dance....
Wot, you think I make love with bells on my legs wielding a stick and handkerchief?
What's wrong with using the phrase "got laid?" It's fewer syllables, it's less obscure.
It reflects back on puritan values, where it was unthinkable to have sex other than lying down in bed.
"Had sex" is even fewer letters.
Why remove/change something to easy and powerful?
If it interferes with something even more basic, it's fine to remove or change it so it doesn't. If I paste a text, I'd like for it not to create subtasks if the text happens to contain tabs. That's even more core.
First world problems.
But to be honest, I wish they would just focus on the basics. Palm (pre-phone era) got this, and made the core apps as simple as possible, always accessible through a single button, and never do or present in unexpected ways. They were useful, not eye candy.
But apparently, the new generation care more about form than function. Or don't actually do things that make the core apps useful.
All I want is a version of Amazon prime that is just for fast shipping. I really don't need the music or streaming service which is what I suspect most people don't want either.
I suspect people have different needs and wants.
Personally, I would rather pay for delivery the few times I use it, and only get the video streaming service. Not shipping, not music. For a subset of video only, $120 per year does not compare favourable to Netflix and Hulu+.
When I buy something online, I prefer to not buy from Amazon, but directly from the producer if possible (it makes warranty a heck of a lot easier), or from someone who has a brick-and-mortar store or local warehouse where I can pick up the purchase within a couple of hours. Even express delivery is slow compared to that.
I'd love to see this bundle be broken, so people can choose which parts they want out of the three, and perhaps get a discount for picking more than one. I'm pretty sure that this bundling of unrelated products would even be illegal in some countries, so Amazon likely has a system in place for split services anyhow.
Thanks for reminding me (I'm female) that many men don't regard me as human!
Huh? How can you possibly read that into what I wrote?
Men and women are animals, and we carry with us some genetic baggage that influence (not dictate) how we tend to behave. The arms race between our genes and their survival depended on it. The drive of the biological imperative is not identical for men and women. This isn't even in dispute, and it says nothing about one gender being superior to the other.
Wow. I've seem some misogynist trolling on Slashdot, but it's far worse when you try to come over all reasonable and matter of fact about it.
People keep telling me we are all equal now and we don't need feminism any more, but then comments like this get modded as "insightful". Lewis' Law still stands.
As I said, I don't think denying the underlying problems are going to help. Pretending that there aren't any biological baggage that need addressing, and that we can get to full equality, trust and respect through fiat is like sticking your fingers in your ears and go NA-NA-NA.
The biological imperative will always be a factor, and we cannot reach equality unless we take it into account.
Women are not aggressive and competitive? Are you kidding? They may be more subtle, but if you want to see backstabbing that could teach George R. R. Martin a few things even he didn't imagine possible, watch a few women try to outdo each other for a high level position.
The ideal team size for women seems to be two.
Wherever there are three women, two of them often gang up on and eventually backstab the third.
If more than three, the fights to establish the pecking order can become fierce. It's behavior evolved to increase the chances that they capture hearts of the best providers and the sperm of the men other women are most attracted to.
Men have their own natures that don't align well with workplaces, of course, including a natural desire to copulate with any fertile female they can get away with. But their drive to become the stable and successful top dog that women want to have a fling with is aligned with business interests at least some of the time.
How to design workplaces so they both align with our ideals, including equality and full respect for each other no matter what gender, and also takes into account that we humans have inclinations that will affect behavior on a larger scale than individuals... I have no idea. But I don't think denying the underlying problems are going to make them go away.
It's long been known that if you make pages too wide the eye skips from line to line instead of reading across. That's why pages are portrait, it's why newspapers put text in columns.
They should be A4 portrait for work and reading, because that's the format people read in.
The presumptions that (a) everybody use A4, and (b) everybody blow windows up full screen are both wrong.
For (b), the ability to have multiple windows on the screen, each with the geometry you like, not what the manufacturer gave you, is very useful. If you want A4, nothing prevents you from having A4. Even combined with a correct DPI setting, so what you see on-screen will be the exact same size as when printed out. Others might want smaller overlapping windows with Z-order management to increase their productivity.
All that said, for a laptop, the screen ratio is also somewhat linked to the keyboard/touchpad size. If you make the screen wider, you can't compensate by making it less tall, or the touchpad won't fit. So that means bigger laptops with huge top/bottom bezels, which I don't see as a win.
Beyonce is there? Who'd care?
The poor sod who provides seating...
Among my circle of friends there are a few who've been sexually abused as children (more than I can count on one hand, fewer than two - a mix of male and female).
Ah. You have a hand with no fingers and know a hermaphrodite who was sexually abused as a child. Happens to the best of us.
When automation drives people out of work it will be cheaper to EXTERMINATE THEM than it will to keep them alive on UBI
No need to exterminate, per se. Remember that we've always been at war with Eurasia.
I think he could well be right, but I also think he has the timeline very wrong. 200 years, sure. 100, maybe, although I'm not convinced. But 20? No, I will bet anything that won't be the case.
In the oil crisis in the early 70s, the prediction was that we were going to all be on non-oil heating and transportation well before the turn of the century. Didn't happen. I think it still will, but things just turn around that quickly. Even seriously disruptive technologies like the steam engine and factory machines took generations to take over. Rum wasn't brewed in a day.
I live in America, yet I'm not American. I'm Canadian! Get your own name for your own citizens, U.S.A.!
There is one: Landwhales
Trust me, this would be a good thing.
Whenever someone says "trust me", that's the last thing you want to do.
Also, adjustment of pacemakers have been done for several generations now - with a couple of screws. It's a tiny incision that doesn't even require a stitch. And it's pretty much hack proof.
If anything, wireless adjustments mean more surgery, because the battery will run out much faster.
(An Apple iPacemaker would presumably need recharging every night...)
I'd rather have a device with no external connectivity than one that has external connectivity because one is needed by the upgrade mechanism.
That just adds a vector for attack where there was none.
You can't create icons without hyperbole, and without icons what's an agenda to do?
Could that lead to agenda discrimination lawsuit?
They put people in shape. Round is a shape.
At one time there was a wifi in their neighborhood named:
MARTHA SUCKS!
Well, did she?
Mine is called "Searching..."
Caught a few people with that one.
How do you know?
Having a Wifi named "remote detonator" is a bomb threat IMO, even if you think it's just a joke.
YO is noted, but is irrelevant. The man on the Clapham omnibus, would not be alarmed by this, and that's the standard we need to go by. There is no need for, nor should there be, making exceptions for the unreasonable.
Is that the "fitness" club where they have pizza nights?
Only in 'tis of thee...
It's also used in devices like the DR-70D [tascam.com].
Is that running Linux, though? I was under the impression that Tascam used a "true" embedded system without kernel/userspace separation.