Re:If by "looking good", you mean "looking like iO
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Most Mac users are using touchpads (laptops), where it is more natural.
And for the Mac users with a desktop, most of those will use Apple's Magic Mouse, the top of which is basically a trackpad. You can still scroll the old-fashioned way by doing mouse stuff in the scrollbar, but it's not what most people typically seem to using anymore.
Re:If by "looking good", you mean "looking like iO
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Same here.
After being thoroughly conditioned to be used to think of scrolling as something you do by dragging the thumb of a scrollbar for many years, I decided to give this a chance nevertheless, knowing the brain can be pretty quick in 'rewiring' itself to changes like this. It's even possible to get used to seeing the world upside down within a few days: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/nov/12/improbable-research-seeing-upside-down - or maybe right side up, as the image on the retina is normally inverted.
I now think of scrolling like: finger drags content up or down. Simple. No inbetween stuff like screens, mouses, trackpads, scrollbars - just my finger moving around content.
I agree it's an awesome but highly speculative idea.
There's no need for the piece of rock having to fly around for thousands, millions, maybe even billions of years before landing on Earth, though. Since we're talking about probabilities in the order of once in the lifetime of the universe, we may just as well assume that this particular rock happened to be flying in a 'lucky' trajectory. In this case, a few years or decades should be enough.
This is exactly backwards....a human will be aware enough to never jab the needle all the way through your arm. If there's a bug, the computer will do that happily and quickly.
True. However, humans make mistakes too, and their error rate won't decrease below a certain level. You could keep improving robots until they're near perfect. I've been a blood donor for many years, and have donated blood over 100 times. I have pretty 'easy' veins, and yet one time the needle was not inserted correctly, and went through the vein. From what I've seen happening to other donors during those donations, I can assure you that even under these near ideal conditions (experienced medical personal doing this all day, no emergencies, relaxed volunteer donors, etcetera) the success rate is 99% at best.
I received this email on both accounts (work and private) that I have access to, so I guess they did indeed send it to developers with a paid membership. At the time, I was wondering if I wasn't being too paranoid to pay using a virtual prepaid credit card for my own account, but now I'm glad I did...
With such a sensible comment in general, I must assume that you are mixing up version numbers regarding Word for the Mac. I've used several versions, including 1.0 (unusable), 3.x (pretty good), 5.1 (even better) and then version 6. This version was, if I remember correctly, a full rewrite, brining the code more in line with the Windows version. It was was a bug-infested nightmare. It is one of the few times I deliberately and voluntarily downgraded an application. They did get their act together, eventually - but version 6 was not a promising start.
Talking about morons with mod points - I just wanted to moderate your posting but mis-clicked, moderating it as 'redundant'.... Oops. Only thing I can now do is make a post in this discussion too, eliminating my own moderation.
Like any country, or rather any unit that has multiple areas they need to work on, everything gets its fair share of resources. One doesn't "prioritise" one thing in neglect of other things. Defence gets its share.
There is no such thing as a 'fair share'. This is all about making (political) choices.
By choosing to spend money on nukes that could have been spent elsewhere, Indian politicians do prioritize. The Indian defence spending may be relatively low, but one may still have the point of view that a part of it should have been spent differently. Assuming there is a 'fair share' for defence is assuming that whatever the outcome of a political debate is, is inherently the right outcome.
We assume that the players learn their strategies x via a form of reinforcement learning called experience weighted attraction. This has been extensively studied by experimental economists who have shown that it provides a reasonable approximation for how real people learn in games.
I just read that analysis of the genetic differences between Denisova man and primates have been found, and are restricted to 23 genes only. This means that, theoretically, with some advances in techology, we could bring them back, and even all evolutionary steps inbetween. Apart from the zillion of ethical issues, this would be an interesting way to settle the discussion about human evolution once and for all.
True, if they could send light down the same route, this would make sense. However, from the lab's website: The average 1400 m rock coverage gives a reduction factor of one million in the cosmic ray flux... So they'd have to dig through somewhere between 1.4 and 732 km of rock to do this, which probably makes this impractical.
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Most Mac users are using touchpads (laptops), where it is more natural.
And for the Mac users with a desktop, most of those will use Apple's Magic Mouse, the top of which is basically a trackpad.
You can still scroll the old-fashioned way by doing mouse stuff in the scrollbar, but it's not what most people typically seem to using anymore.
Same here.
After being thoroughly conditioned to be used to think of scrolling as something you do by dragging the thumb of a scrollbar for many years, I decided to give this a chance nevertheless, knowing the brain can be pretty quick in 'rewiring' itself to changes like this. It's even possible to get used to seeing the world upside down within a few days: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/nov/12/improbable-research-seeing-upside-down - or maybe right side up, as the image on the retina is normally inverted.
I now think of scrolling like: finger drags content up or down. Simple. No inbetween stuff like screens, mouses, trackpads, scrollbars - just my finger moving around content.
I agree it's an awesome but highly speculative idea.
There's no need for the piece of rock having to fly around for thousands, millions, maybe even billions of years before landing on Earth, though. Since we're talking about probabilities in the order of once in the lifetime of the universe, we may just as well assume that this particular rock happened to be flying in a 'lucky' trajectory.
In this case, a few years or decades should be enough.
Not so sure about there being no environmental issues...
This is exactly backwards....a human will be aware enough to never jab the needle all the way through your arm. If there's a bug, the computer will do that happily and quickly.
True. However, humans make mistakes too, and their error rate won't decrease below a certain level. You could keep improving robots until they're near perfect.
I've been a blood donor for many years, and have donated blood over 100 times. I have pretty 'easy' veins, and yet one time the needle was not inserted correctly, and went through the vein. From what I've seen happening to other donors during those donations, I can assure you that even under these near ideal conditions (experienced medical personal doing this all day, no emergencies, relaxed volunteer donors, etcetera) the success rate is 99% at best.
I received this email on both accounts (work and private) that I have access to, so I guess they did indeed send it to developers with a paid membership.
At the time, I was wondering if I wasn't being too paranoid to pay using a virtual prepaid credit card for my own account, but now I'm glad I did...
With such a sensible comment in general, I must assume that you are mixing up version numbers regarding Word for the Mac. I've used several versions, including 1.0 (unusable), 3.x (pretty good), 5.1 (even better) and then version 6.
This version was, if I remember correctly, a full rewrite, brining the code more in line with the Windows version. It was was a bug-infested nightmare. It is one of the few times I deliberately and voluntarily downgraded an application. They did get their act together, eventually - but version 6 was not a promising start.
Surely you mean the moron with Insightful mod?
Talking about morons with mod points - I just wanted to moderate your posting but mis-clicked, moderating it as 'redundant'.... Oops.
Only thing I can now do is make a post in this discussion too, eliminating my own moderation.
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Like any country, or rather any unit that has multiple areas they need to work on, everything gets its fair share of resources. One doesn't "prioritise" one thing in neglect of other things. Defence gets its share.
There is no such thing as a 'fair share'. This is all about making (political) choices.
By choosing to spend money on nukes that could have been spent elsewhere, Indian politicians do prioritize. The Indian defence spending may be relatively low, but one may still have the point of view that a part of it should have been spent differently. Assuming there is a 'fair share' for defence is assuming that whatever the outcome of a political debate is, is inherently the right outcome.
As for the title, they simply copypasted it, so whatever there's wrong with it, should primarily be blamed on the writer of the article.
You don't invite Yuri Geller into the lab then let him set up the spoon-bending experiment.
On behalf of all those Yuri's out there: his name is Uri Geller.
When folks don't use their own products it's because the product is shit. Do you think Microsoft compiles Windows with Visual Studio?
Firstly, regardless of what I think of Windows, I actually believe they do use Visual Studio, see the discussion here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7381392/compiler-used-to-build-windows-7
Secondly, Visual Studio is a quite acceptable IDE, and could very well be the best software product they ever made.
From TFA:
We assume that the players learn their strategies x via a form of reinforcement learning called experience weighted attraction. This has been extensively studied by experimental economists who have shown that it provides a reasonable approximation for how real people learn in games.
I just read that analysis of the genetic differences between Denisova man and primates have been found, and are restricted to 23 genes only.
This means that, theoretically, with some advances in techology, we could bring them back, and even all evolutionary steps inbetween.
Apart from the zillion of ethical issues, this would be an interesting way to settle the discussion about human evolution once and for all.
Just how much humiliation is the general American public willing to tolerate in the name of 'security'?"
Well, more than this, it seems. Poll: Americans Like the TSA.
Sorry about the mistyped title.
They're probably using something like a Bayes classifier and not having an FB account is just one of many features.
I don't know how reassuring this is, given that I neither have a Facebook account nor a mobile phone, and don't twitter either...
The new external Apple 27" monitor is thunderbolt too.
Yeah, but: this standard is Universal!
This time it can't possibly go wrong, with such a beautiful website!
Can't these things even carry a small torpedo, then?
Indeed it does. A blind watchmaker, to be precise.
Dead, then not dead, then officially dead... Sounds like zunebies to me.
True, if they could send light down the same route, this would make sense. However, from the lab's website:
The average 1400 m rock coverage gives a reduction factor of one million in the cosmic ray flux...
So they'd have to dig through somewhere between 1.4 and 732 km of rock to do this, which probably makes this impractical.