I use a Google Customized Search Engine (CSE) configured to promote StackOverflow and block ExpertSexchange. Here, you can try it out: www.google.com/cse/home?cx=007350804174195462206:7etfz1pyl-s . I've set it as my default search engine in Chrome and never have to think about it again.
A good campaign of email virus inoculation should do the trick. Start a series of spam which looks exactly like a virus, but just puts up a "If this were a virus, you'd have just infected yourself!" message, thus training users to just don't open it!
Possibly add a link or button (perhaps labeled "Click Me!") which puts up a follow-up message for the especially thick user: "For heaven's sake, you're just making it worse. Quit clicking these things!"
The MacHeist organizer took on _all_ the risk in this venture. The developers got a flat fee, apparently regardless of how well the bundle sold. MacHeist stood to lose everything they put into the deal or gain in proportion to sales if it did well.
I would not be surprised to learn that some developers who turned down an offer to participate in MacHeist did so because they would not receive a percentage of the profits.
Can you explain how heat (infrared photons, right?) is different in this regard...
I'm afraid that heat is not "infrared photons". Heat is a measurement of the Brownian motion. Useful energy is available from temperature differentials.
Many people have responded to this article discussing the practicality of including or installing a HD larger than 1.5 Gb in a device like this. Most have expressed doubt concerning the reliability as well as the gyroscopic effect.
So, my question is, if I can go jogging with a 20 Gb iPod, why can't I shoot video with a 20 Gb "iCam?"
A new filing system needs to appear to be very similar to our existing socument filing system in order to gain acceptance among the bulk of users.
The primary element lacking in today's HFS is the a good interface to soft links (or aliases).
When I hit "Save", I want to be prompted to save my document in several different folders at once.
Also, I do not want to be bothered with any distinction of one "copy" of the document being a primary copy; the same document filed in many different folders should all be equivalent.
When I am saving a document, I want the application to suggest the folder where I may want to file my document.
The suggestions should be based on
content and should be compared to contents of other documents, even documents from other applications.
This is my 2nd-generation HFS wishlist. Don't take my "Save" or "Open" dialogs away (just yet).
My experience with Macintosh only goes back as far as System 7, but ven then, the "Monitors" control panel consisted of a picture of the monitors you had attached to your system and the ability to drag them around until the represented the physical arrangement of your monitors. Also, you dragged a picture of the menu bar from one monitor to another to represent where your menu bar should be.
This practice seems to have a lot in common with the "scare tactics" of the average dead-tree magazine, e.g.
"Subscribe now or you may miss the next 3 issues!" 1 year before your subscription runs out.
Is the main difference here merely that the average domain name subscriber is less informed/knowledgeable about the nature of their subscription?
How many more times to I have to read the word 'loosing' where an author meant 'losing' before I am legally released from all obligations against torturing said authors? They're even pronounced differently, thus causing me to mentally trip on a conversational rock and fall in a pit of grammatical despair.
There is a reason, similar to reasons stated here before comparing companies' willingness to invest in cheap, effective software vs. expensive, bug-ridden software.
A significant portion of purchasers tie price directly to quality. I.E. If it costs a fraction of the price, it's probably not worth my time to read it.
I think your analysis is wrong. Instead of studying how it is done today and improving that, we should be researching how it can be done better from the ground up. Ask yourself questions like:
what does a program represent?
how do developers visualize their programs/ideas?
what will enable a developer to most efficiently transcribe his ideas into a complete and distributable representation?
Regarding an editor which enforces contextual rules, that sounds like a set of training wheels. Such a "feature" would last about 1 week into my initial study and experimentation with a language. An application that needs to infer or guess what I meant to type in order to auto-complete must be very, very smart, or it will be turned off. It is more likely a source of hard-to-find errors.
He proposed subsystems for handling the different parts of the building process. At the point in the story we encounter this, the characters are helping to put in the walls. They wear smart gloves and wrap tape (with embedded sensors and speakers) around pre-fab blocks. The blocks then tell them where to go and what to do according to the master plan. Sample: "I am a corner block. Put me in the northwest wall."
The agenda behind this system was to enable cheap labor to put up cheap buildings quickly.
...though Redemption was a little bit of a break and a nice historical piece...
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus really stands out among Card's titles. I really enjoyed the fresh plot which felt like such a change from his other books, which, when compared to Pastwatch, seem all to similar to each other.
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You want a Google "Custom Search Engine". Works great for me. Mine omits anything from Experts Exchange and prefers anything from Stack Overflow.
I don't know what everyone's complaining about, Verizon were being completely truthy!
Did you know there's an xkcd panel about you?
A good campaign of email virus inoculation should do the trick. Start a series of spam which looks exactly like a virus, but just puts up a "If this were a virus, you'd have just infected yourself!" message, thus training users to just don't open it!
Possibly add a link or button (perhaps labeled "Click Me!") which puts up a follow-up message for the especially thick user: "For heaven's sake, you're just making it worse. Quit clicking these things!"
The MacHeist organizer took on _all_ the risk in this venture. The developers got a flat fee, apparently regardless of how well the bundle sold. MacHeist stood to lose everything they put into the deal or gain in proportion to sales if it did well. I would not be surprised to learn that some developers who turned down an offer to participate in MacHeist did so because they would not receive a percentage of the profits.
Many people have responded to this article discussing the practicality of including or installing a HD larger than 1.5 Gb in a device like this. Most have expressed doubt concerning the reliability as well as the gyroscopic effect.
So, my question is, if I can go jogging with a 20 Gb iPod, why can't I shoot video with a 20 Gb "iCam?"
A new filing system needs to appear to be very similar to our existing socument filing system in order to gain acceptance among the bulk of users.
The primary element lacking in today's HFS is the a good interface to soft links (or aliases).
This is my 2nd-generation HFS wishlist. Don't take my "Save" or "Open" dialogs away (just yet).
My experience with Macintosh only goes back as far as System 7, but ven then, the "Monitors" control panel consisted of a picture of the monitors you had attached to your system and the ability to drag them around until the represented the physical arrangement of your monitors. Also, you dragged a picture of the menu bar from one monitor to another to represent where your menu bar should be.
This practice seems to have a lot in common with the "scare tactics" of the average dead-tree magazine, e.g. "Subscribe now or you may miss the next 3 issues!" 1 year before your subscription runs out.
Is the main difference here merely that the average domain name subscriber is less informed/knowledgeable about the nature of their subscription?
How many more times to I have to read the word 'loosing' where an author meant 'losing' before I am legally released from all obligations against torturing said authors? They're even pronounced differently, thus causing me to mentally trip on a conversational rock and fall in a pit of grammatical despair.
There is a reason, similar to reasons stated here before comparing companies' willingness to invest in cheap, effective software vs. expensive, bug-ridden software.
A significant portion of purchasers tie price directly to quality. I.E. If it costs a fraction of the price, it's probably not worth my time to read it.
I think your analysis is wrong. Instead of studying how it is done today and improving that, we should be researching how it can be done better from the ground up. Ask yourself questions like:
Regarding an editor which enforces contextual rules, that sounds like a set of training wheels. Such a "feature" would last about 1 week into my initial study and experimentation with a language. An application that needs to infer or guess what I meant to type in order to auto-complete must be very, very smart, or it will be turned off. It is more likely a source of hard-to-find errors.
...in "Distraction" by Bruce Sterling.
He proposed subsystems for handling the different parts of the building process. At the point in the story we encounter this, the characters are helping to put in the walls. They wear smart gloves and wrap tape (with embedded sensors and speakers) around pre-fab blocks. The blocks then tell them where to go and what to do according to the master plan. Sample: "I am a corner block. Put me in the northwest wall."
The agenda behind this system was to enable cheap labor to put up cheap buildings quickly.
- Pirates stealing DirecTV content by circumventing the content-protection hardware & software present in the satellite receiver
- Pirates stealing DVD-authors' content by circumventing the content-protection hardware & software present in the DVD player
Why do most of this community applaud DirecTV while comdemning SDMI? When did the principle become worse than the practice?Major Graff != Mazer Rackham
Major Graff does not have a surprise identity in Ender's Game (the book).