<sarcasm>Yes, I'm sure that's what he meant. You have to spend 336 hours straight studying the Office ribbon before you can use it correctly.</sarcasm>
His point (which I agree with), is that all things being equal, the ribbon is a better interface than the file menu. Of course all things are not equal. You've been practicing on that clunky "Word for Windows" file menu for 15 years. It may take you a little time to retrain yourself. People like myself, on the other hand, don't use Office regularly, and find the new interface much easier to use.
Microsoft is taking a calculated risk to separate themselves from their competitors. I think it was a good decision.
You don't like.NET because of Winforms? Thats like not liking Java because AWT components suck. If you don't like Winforms, use something else, like WPF or GTK#. This is completely off topic anyway as CocoaTouch doesn't use Winforms. It uses Cocoa components.
That's different. An infrared camera has the ir filter removed and an additional filter added to block non-ir light (see the video here http://www.lifepixel.com/). The old filter blocked ir light across the entire sensor. It's essentially like any other filter you would put on your lens. A Bayer filter is completely different. It filters each individual cell of the sensor with one of three colors. Each cell knows which color was used to filter it. It would have to be implemented on the sensor itself.
It also proves that Apple follows a wrong path selling hardware. It has some nice software in its hands, and it could become an alternative to Microsoft/Google if they wanted to.
How does it prove that? Apple is in the business of making money. Right now their making more than almost any software company (with one major exception) and many of their hardware competitors. While I wish they would behave a little different for my personal benefit, you can't pretend they aren't doing what's in their best interest.
The point made by the GP was valid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_languages#Type_systems He said 'most languages are strongly typed' and he is correct. Pointing out 3 weakly typed languages doesn't make him wrong. It's also not the point of his post. The article was probably mistaken for describing Scala as a strongly typed language. While true, it's about as relevant as calling it a language which supports for loops. It's easy to assume they meant to describe it as a static language, since that differentiates it from it's popular competitors (Ruby, Groovy & Python).
"Small lies, it's what holds relationships together."
Empathy holds a relationship together. It sometimes directs you towards small lies, but that's probably the least important benefit in being empathetic toward your partner.
I agree completely. A typical child will get 10 years of music classes and 10 years of art classes as well as a shop class and a home economics class before they graduate high school -- not because people need these things later in life, but to expose them to these subjects hoping some may find interest in one of these areas. Yet when a student takes their first programming class, often its shoveled at them as a dry unpalatable set of instructions to memorize. Only a few of the very most interested end up perusing it. I've even seen cases where college level 101 programming courses are used a "weed out" classes! WFT? Do we really want to continue importing half our programmers?
Good link. It should have been in the summary. It seems like a fairly obscure bug though. Here's an interesting quote:
"I've mentioned that this was a class of vulnerabilities: the reason is that with this design, every time Java code deserializes an attacker-controlled input in a privileged context, it's a security vulnerability."
Maybe it's just lack of imagination on my part, but I can't think of a good reason for a privileged app to deserialize objects from an untrusted source.
For every person like your brother, who left apple to get his music to work, there is another who blamed the "generic mp3 player" and decided to go with an ipod. It just worked out in your case because you were there to guide him.
The reason the central authority model is on the rise, is that you (and me) are no longer the target market of device manufacturers. Apple could care less if a couple hundred geeks are complaining on Slashdot that they can't write apps in Python. They make enough money at a single large university to offset the entire Slashdot market.
That said, a few thousand opinionated geeks are enough to keep a competing product alive -- even if it isn't enough to kill the dominating centralized product. It doesn't take too much imagination to think of a few examples of that happining.
I agree on all counts, except, I think suing the telcoms was a necessary evil. In fact, without the discovery that would have come from suing the telcoms, this lawsuit will never work. Even a failed lawsuit against the telcoms would have dug up a nice list of plaintiffs for the government lawsuit.
Season 2 isn't out yet. I just finished season 1. I agree that Dr Who is better, but it fills the gaps. I also like it better than the Shara Jane series
I use the profiles feature, but not in the intended way. I keep a separate queue for different types of movies. I currently have 3 profiles. One for TV shows (so I always have 1 Torchwood disc at home), one for mindless action & scifi movies that I can watch without my wife, and one for movies for us to watch together. All the movies are for me, but I've had to create three profiles with fake names. Each time I switch between queues, I have to login again. Any since it thinks each queue represents a separate person, it doesn't remember any of my past rentals or movie ratings.
Personally, when I got the email from Netflix, a little part of me thought 'good... maybe their going to try to do it right this time'
It requires flash 9 because it's a Flex 3 app. They used Flex 3 so they could make an Air version, which will solve your second and fifth questions. It's dog slow because its a flex app. It doesn't have photoshop toolbars because it doesn't have photoshop's tools. It's for entry level users (as you later point out). Adobe does retain the rights to your images... probably copy/pasted from the EULAs at Facebook, Myspace, etc. It's not better than GIMP for those experienced in image manipulation (that's what Photoshop is for). It's targeting less sophisticated users, and is much more useful for that market than GIMP.
What's the range on a pacemaker? about 3 inches? So you don't think the victim would be tipped off by the guy walking around behind him holding a device three inches from his chest, tethered to a computer?
I didn't mean to imply that public transportation predated gas... just that it predated $8 gas. I think that's safe to say.
Other than Ethanol, I'm not aware of gas subsidization in the US. Not taxing something isn't the same as subsidizing it; although I suppose you could argue that it has the same effect.
When you talk about raising the price of gas as a solution to 'consumption and obesity', keep in mind that most Americans travel more than 20 miles to work and don't have access to public transportation. Raising gas prices doesn't force the average American to ride a bike to work. Best case: those who can afford to, will buy more fuel efficient cars. If the increase is too dramatic, many in the lower class will simply quit their jobs (many jobs wouldn't pay enough to cover travel expenses). Eventually many people would move to cities, but not before devastating the rural middle class. Far too many people depend on being able to drive to suburban factories from their low-cost rural housing.
Before thinking that you can simply apply European solutions to American problems, you should consider that we are in a different situation. We aren't stupid. We are aware of what you're doing over there. It just isn't an option for us.
There is no causal relationship there, and you know it. The effects you describe are because of England's urban environment and existed long before gas was at $8.
England has 10 times the population density of my home state of Missouri. You have subways because you can easily divide the cost among your population. Gas prices are artificially high in Europe, and artificially low in the US -- in both cases for political reasons. The US middle and lower class depend on gas, and must have it cheap, so it isn't taxed much. The European economy just uses it for shipping goods, which makes it a good way to tax transportation.
While I agree that the urban lifestyle is much better for both the environment and human health, it costs at least 3 times as much to live in that environment here. If you find a solution to suburban sprawl (good luck), then maybe we can have all the benefits you mention in the US, and save the planet in the process.
I'm pretty sure throwing out patient records without shredding them would be illegal under HIPAA. And although it doesn't specifically mention wirelesss keyboards, it does mandate policies to limit access to equipment containing medical records.
You're right. It's been 10 years since I'd looked at that. Either way, my point is still valid: competition is factored in to the law of supply and demand.
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<sarcasm>Yes, I'm sure that's what he meant. You have to spend 336 hours straight studying the Office ribbon before you can use it correctly.</sarcasm>
His point (which I agree with), is that all things being equal, the ribbon is a better interface than the file menu. Of course all things are not equal. You've been practicing on that clunky "Word for Windows" file menu for 15 years. It may take you a little time to retrain yourself. People like myself, on the other hand, don't use Office regularly, and find the new interface much easier to use.
Microsoft is taking a calculated risk to separate themselves from their competitors. I think it was a good decision.
You don't like .NET because of Winforms? Thats like not liking Java because AWT components suck. If you don't like Winforms, use something else, like WPF or GTK#. This is completely off topic anyway as CocoaTouch doesn't use Winforms. It uses Cocoa components.
That's different. An infrared camera has the ir filter removed and an additional filter added to block non-ir light (see the video here http://www.lifepixel.com/). The old filter blocked ir light across the entire sensor. It's essentially like any other filter you would put on your lens. A Bayer filter is completely different. It filters each individual cell of the sensor with one of three colors. Each cell knows which color was used to filter it. It would have to be implemented on the sensor itself.
We do need ditch diggers. But do we really need billions of ditch diggers?
It also proves that Apple follows a wrong path selling hardware. It has some nice software in its hands, and it could become an alternative to Microsoft/Google if they wanted to.
How does it prove that? Apple is in the business of making money. Right now their making more than almost any software company (with one major exception) and many of their hardware competitors. While I wish they would behave a little different for my personal benefit, you can't pretend they aren't doing what's in their best interest.
It's also important to point out that women with androgen insensitivity are allowed to compete as women in the olympics. Seven competed in '96:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2009/08/gender_questions_hover_over_ch.html
The point made by the GP was valid:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_languages#Type_systems
He said 'most languages are strongly typed' and he is correct. Pointing out 3 weakly typed languages doesn't make him wrong. It's also not the point of his post. The article was probably mistaken for describing Scala as a strongly typed language. While true, it's about as relevant as calling it a language which supports for loops. It's easy to assume they meant to describe it as a static language, since that differentiates it from it's popular competitors (Ruby, Groovy & Python).
I'm having trouble finding info on this. Are you referring to how they store data in the MPEG-4 wrapper?
"Small lies, it's what holds relationships together."
Empathy holds a relationship together. It sometimes directs you towards small lies, but that's probably the least important benefit in being empathetic toward your partner.
I agree completely. A typical child will get 10 years of music classes and 10 years of art classes as well as a shop class and a home economics class before they graduate high school -- not because people need these things later in life, but to expose them to these subjects hoping some may find interest in one of these areas. Yet when a student takes their first programming class, often its shoveled at them as a dry unpalatable set of instructions to memorize. Only a few of the very most interested end up perusing it. I've even seen cases where college level 101 programming courses are used a "weed out" classes! WFT? Do we really want to continue importing half our programmers?
Good link. It should have been in the summary. It seems like a fairly obscure bug though. Here's an interesting quote:
"I've mentioned that this was a class of vulnerabilities: the reason is that with this design, every time Java code deserializes an attacker-controlled input in a privileged context, it's a security vulnerability."
Maybe it's just lack of imagination on my part, but I can't think of a good reason for a privileged app to deserialize objects from an untrusted source.
For every person like your brother, who left apple to get his music to work, there is another who blamed the "generic mp3 player" and decided to go with an ipod. It just worked out in your case because you were there to guide him.
The reason the central authority model is on the rise, is that you (and me) are no longer the target market of device manufacturers. Apple could care less if a couple hundred geeks are complaining on Slashdot that they can't write apps in Python. They make enough money at a single large university to offset the entire Slashdot market.
That said, a few thousand opinionated geeks are enough to keep a competing product alive -- even if it isn't enough to kill the dominating centralized product. It doesn't take too much imagination to think of a few examples of that happining.
I agree on all counts, except, I think suing the telcoms was a necessary evil. In fact, without the discovery that would have come from suing the telcoms, this lawsuit will never work. Even a failed lawsuit against the telcoms would have dug up a nice list of plaintiffs for the government lawsuit.
anonymously, of course... don't want your name given up when the NSA starts waterboarding the EFF accountants.
Do you remember where you read that.. I'd like to hear more.
Season 2 isn't out yet. I just finished season 1. I agree that Dr Who is better, but it fills the gaps. I also like it better than the Shara Jane series
I use the profiles feature, but not in the intended way. I keep a separate queue for different types of movies. I currently have 3 profiles. One for TV shows (so I always have 1 Torchwood disc at home), one for mindless action & scifi movies that I can watch without my wife, and one for movies for us to watch together. All the movies are for me, but I've had to create three profiles with fake names. Each time I switch between queues, I have to login again. Any since it thinks each queue represents a separate person, it doesn't remember any of my past rentals or movie ratings.
Personally, when I got the email from Netflix, a little part of me thought 'good... maybe their going to try to do it right this time'
It requires flash 9 because it's a Flex 3 app. They used Flex 3 so they could make an Air version, which will solve your second and fifth questions. It's dog slow because its a flex app. It doesn't have photoshop toolbars because it doesn't have photoshop's tools. It's for entry level users (as you later point out). Adobe does retain the rights to your images... probably copy/pasted from the EULAs at Facebook, Myspace, etc. It's not better than GIMP for those experienced in image manipulation (that's what Photoshop is for). It's targeting less sophisticated users, and is much more useful for that market than GIMP.
What's the range on a pacemaker? about 3 inches? So you don't think the victim would be tipped off by the guy walking around behind him holding a device three inches from his chest, tethered to a computer?
Also, your pacing needs change as you grow and as your heart develops. Not all pacemakers go into 70-year-olds.
I didn't mean to imply that public transportation predated gas... just that it predated $8 gas. I think that's safe to say.
Other than Ethanol, I'm not aware of gas subsidization in the US. Not taxing something isn't the same as subsidizing it; although I suppose you could argue that it has the same effect.
When you talk about raising the price of gas as a solution to 'consumption and obesity', keep in mind that most Americans travel more than 20 miles to work and don't have access to public transportation. Raising gas prices doesn't force the average American to ride a bike to work. Best case: those who can afford to, will buy more fuel efficient cars. If the increase is too dramatic, many in the lower class will simply quit their jobs (many jobs wouldn't pay enough to cover travel expenses). Eventually many people would move to cities, but not before devastating the rural middle class. Far too many people depend on being able to drive to suburban factories from their low-cost rural housing.
Before thinking that you can simply apply European solutions to American problems, you should consider that we are in a different situation. We aren't stupid. We are aware of what you're doing over there. It just isn't an option for us.
There is no causal relationship there, and you know it. The effects you describe are because of England's urban environment and existed long before gas was at $8.
England has 10 times the population density of my home state of Missouri. You have subways because you can easily divide the cost among your population. Gas prices are artificially high in Europe, and artificially low in the US -- in both cases for political reasons. The US middle and lower class depend on gas, and must have it cheap, so it isn't taxed much. The European economy just uses it for shipping goods, which makes it a good way to tax transportation.
While I agree that the urban lifestyle is much better for both the environment and human health, it costs at least 3 times as much to live in that environment here. If you find a solution to suburban sprawl (good luck), then maybe we can have all the benefits you mention in the US, and save the planet in the process.
I'm pretty sure throwing out patient records without shredding them would be illegal under HIPAA. And although it doesn't specifically mention wirelesss keyboards, it does mandate policies to limit access to equipment containing medical records.
You're right. It's been 10 years since I'd looked at that. Either way, my point is still valid: competition is factored in to the law of supply and demand.