again, a setting to burn the bread isn't a feature; its just the result of lazy designers. Making something work well, is the result of good design.
It is a pain that cap touch screens don't work through gloves, or even with wet fingers...
As for reality distortion; take a look at what people chose, overwhelmingly to pay for. It isn't an accident, mass hypnosis, or some grand conspiracy. People simply chose the better product, and grumbling in a state of denial that they are all clowns and you are part of the exclusive club that knows better is childish at best.
I doubt coherent thought has had a cloudier day...
An iPOD isn't an MP3 player, although it does happen to play MP3s amongst other things. It is a portable music device, carefully crafted to be convenient, useful, and unobtrusive. For example, with little effort, I was able to operate the control wheel of a 2nd gen ipod through my ski jacket with my hand in a ski glove.
That isn't to say there isn't a place for toasters with a setting to burn the fucking bread. But simply exposing every capability of an underlying device should not be confused with usability. That is really just a lack of design, and directly sends the message "we can't be bothered to make it good, but at least its cheap".
I know it is bourgeois to mention, but your province also has the lowest cost ( to the consumer ) of electricity in Canada [ possibly North America ]; and the second lowest cost in Canada is British Columbia. Both of these provinces made substantial investments in renewable power decades ago, and as the price of fossil fuels spiralled upwards, the price of electricity in these provinces didn't.
That kind of economic model doesn't sit well with some, so it is best to view them as abominations. Trumpeting them will only lead to armed conflict.
I believe that the point is to undermine any advances that don't conform to the way the person would like the world to be. In short, the worst kind of shill; the kind that doesn't get paid for it, but who does it out of a misguided sense of duty.
Real shills quote false statistics. Wanna-bees just lash out.
[ love the vitrolic you managed to have unleashed at you; hope it was fun ].
I'm not a scientist, but I just took a five minute wikipedia course on this subject. According to the great Wiki; the greenhouse effect contributors are roughly: h2o 36 - 70 % co2 9- 26 % methane 4 - 9 % ozone 3 - 7 %
I don't know what the S/N ratio is, but at 9% it would seem to be part of the signal.
A hunch tells me, however, that the atmosphere doesn't retain water in the same way it retains co2. It seems that on a periodic basis, h2o is dumped from the sky in large volumes, which presumably establishes a sort of equilibrium in the big picture. While I haven't travelled the whole earth, I've never seen a co2 rain shower or fog outside of a Pink Floyd cover band (which was really quite good). Co2 fog might be quite nice if it induced flashbacks the way that evening did.
Keeling, presumably a disciple of the great Wiki, shows a rather alarming curve of the growth of co2 in the atmosphere. It looks a bit like an upside down graph of Suns share price from 2001-2010. I don't know if such a steep change is a cause for alarm; but in Suns case it certainly was.
Canadas federal ballots only have a single question: choose one of N candidates. Provincial ones are similar. Rarely you may get handed two ballots, one with a question of some burning issue. Municipal have more; often three ballots. Federal, Provincial and Municipal elections are always held on separate days.
It is a lot easier to count these than the questionnaire that US voters are to fill out. I know you can just hit "party ticket", but they still have to be looked at.
I don't know how the post-XP world of malware attraction works. At least in the XP-and-before world, the major goal wasn't your data. The windows kernel put a user modifiable, and kernel-used data structure in place. In this situation, anything that could manipulate the user space could manipulate the kernel space, thus spread itself in addition to stealing all of your data.
This is what is so disingenuous about then 'we are the target because so many people run us' crap. W/(95,98,2000,NT,XP) were the target because it was so easy that anybody could do it.
The real question is whether Vista/7/8 has abandoned this brain damaged VMS inspired model, or is just waiting for the malware bomb to hit.
wtf? Haven't you been reading/.? Developers have decided, far and wide, that getting money for their efforts is wrong, and would rather contribute to the android malware space. That damned Apple Tax is pushing them in droves to the Android *(licensed by MicroSoft) ecosystem, where they can make nothing, but feel really really good about it.
There is no other platform than android. There have been no other platforms before me. [the other 8 you've probably seen].
There is a history lesson alright: it was an idiotic fight picked by a bunch of paranoid lunatics. It killed, maimed and harmed a huge number of people for no reason at all.
Don't try to paint war-success stories from what is, at best, a cluster fuck of people that should know so much better.
At best, it is yet another lesson in how using weapons solves nothing. If I count correctly, the "using weapons group" is losing 30 to 1. When Afghanistan is over, it will be 31 to 1.
I'm a very big supporter of bringing back a favourable climate for dinosaurs and such.
I saw a documentary once where they experimented with genetically reviving dinosaur DNA; and it looked pretty cool. If we made a more hospitable climate for them, maybe it could work in the future.
In the past, people used to keep them as pets, and bbq'd brontosauruses; that would be cool too. This time round, we would still have the oil from the 1st Gen Dino's; so we wouldn't need those foot powered cars.
I took apart a 5yr old imac to replace a dead hard drive; it was far from a simple task to dis and re assemble without breaking bits, etc... Kinda easy to see why the drive isn't more accessible....
Anti-Competitive needn't be limited to sleazy back room dealings to prevent competitors access to the market.
Apple's devices, in particular, have been unassailable; which puts other CE manufacturers in an awkward position. If Apple could be counted on to add a little "Redmond design" to each product, there would be a more competitive landscape.
That said, I wouldn't want a TV with a slick user interface or less than 40 buttons on the remote control. I'd spend too much time watching it. Go Sony!
Yes, that innovative fuel source has been just around the corner for some time now. I'm still waiting for my flying car.
Increased agricultural yields are of questionable sustainability. In that, they might be another form of debt, as in borrowing from the future.
Mostly, you can't effectively eat computers, burn computers for energy, or build things with computers, so they are not a basis for expansion.
Limitless imagination was where the debt spiral began; sadly it isn't panning out so well. Knowledge economy will be a nice matching bookend to Tulip economy; leaving people scratching their heads and saying ' were they really that stupid ?'
What exactly do you want it to be based on? The number of Jesus' hairs in the shroud?
Drowning in debt is a wonderful horror story, but anybody who tries to collect on it will be facing a horde of nuke-equipped "non-hostile" drones.
Its not like it is a cancer that increasing destroys everything in its path, its just a paltry concern to be taken care of when we can afford it. Clinton nearly destroyed the US by actually reducing it; and thus transferring power back to the people. Thankfully the clear thinking people of Florida put an end to that loser strategy.
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again, a setting to burn the bread isn't a feature; its just the result of lazy designers.
Making something work well, is the result of good design.
It is a pain that cap touch screens don't work through gloves, or even with wet fingers...
As for reality distortion; take a look at what people chose, overwhelmingly to pay for. It isn't an accident, mass hypnosis, or some grand conspiracy. People simply chose the better product, and grumbling in a state of denial that they are all clowns and you are part of the exclusive club that knows better is childish at best.
I doubt coherent thought has had a cloudier day...
An iPOD isn't an MP3 player, although it does happen to play MP3s amongst other things. It is a portable music device, carefully crafted to be convenient, useful, and unobtrusive. For example, with little effort, I was able to operate the control wheel of a 2nd gen ipod through my ski jacket with my hand in a ski glove.
That isn't to say there isn't a place for toasters with a setting to burn the fucking bread. But simply exposing every capability of an underlying device should not be confused with usability. That is really just a lack of design, and directly sends the message "we can't be bothered to make it good, but at least its cheap".
The delicious food is always the first taken from the buffet. Not a surprise.
| Why should Samsung help Apple with the iPad3? They got their own tablets to sell.
Maybe to recoup the losses they accumulate attempting to sell their own tablets?
I know it is bourgeois to mention, but your province also has the lowest cost ( to the consumer ) of electricity in Canada [ possibly North America ]; and the second lowest cost in Canada is British Columbia.
Both of these provinces made substantial investments in renewable power decades ago, and as the price of fossil fuels spiralled upwards, the price of electricity in these provinces didn't.
That kind of economic model doesn't sit well with some, so it is best to view them as abominations. Trumpeting them will only lead to armed conflict.
I believe that the point is to undermine any advances that don't conform to the way the person would like the world to be. In short, the worst kind of shill; the kind that doesn't get paid for it, but who does it out of a misguided sense of duty.
Real shills quote false statistics. Wanna-bees just lash out.
If I had known there was a discipline of SCIENCTITS; I might have made some different choices :)
| What's wrong with Detroit?
Even toxic waste doesn't want to be there? ouch.
[ love the vitrolic you managed to have unleashed at you; hope it was fun ].
I'm not a scientist, but I just took a five minute wikipedia course on this subject.
According to the great Wiki; the greenhouse effect contributors are roughly:
h2o 36 - 70 %
co2 9- 26 %
methane 4 - 9 %
ozone 3 - 7 %
I don't know what the S/N ratio is, but at 9% it would seem to be part of the signal.
A hunch tells me, however, that the atmosphere doesn't retain water in the same way it retains co2. It seems that on a periodic basis, h2o is dumped from the sky in large volumes, which presumably establishes a sort of equilibrium in the big picture.
While I haven't travelled the whole earth, I've never seen a co2 rain shower or fog outside of a Pink Floyd cover band (which was really quite good). Co2 fog might be quite nice if it induced flashbacks the way that evening did.
Keeling, presumably a disciple of the great Wiki, shows a rather alarming curve of the growth of co2 in the atmosphere. It looks a bit like an upside down graph of Suns share price from 2001-2010. I don't know if such a steep change is a cause for alarm; but in Suns case it certainly was.
| Environmental regulations hurt jobs and business! | ...
Not just that! Environmental regulations cause global warming!
I wish we could just go back to using Ohio as the great toxic waste dump.
Canadas federal ballots only have a single question: choose one of N candidates. Provincial ones are similar. Rarely you may get handed two ballots, one with a question of some burning issue. Municipal have more; often three ballots. Federal, Provincial and Municipal elections are always held on separate days.
It is a lot easier to count these than the questionnaire that US voters are to fill out. I know you can just hit "party ticket", but they still have to be looked at.
I don't know how the post-XP world of malware attraction works. At least in the XP-and-before world, the major goal wasn't your data. The windows kernel put a user modifiable, and kernel-used data structure in place. In this situation, anything that could manipulate the user space could manipulate the kernel space, thus spread itself in addition to stealing all of your data.
This is what is so disingenuous about then 'we are the target because so many people run us' crap. W/(95,98,2000,NT,XP) were the target because it was so easy that anybody could do it.
The real question is whether Vista/7/8 has abandoned this brain damaged VMS inspired model, or is just waiting for the malware bomb to hit.
wtf? Haven't you been reading /.? Developers have decided, far and wide, that getting money for their efforts is wrong, and would rather contribute to the android malware space. That damned Apple Tax is pushing them in droves to the Android *(licensed by MicroSoft) ecosystem, where they can make nothing, but feel really really good about it.
There is no other platform than android.
There have been no other platforms before me.
[the other 8 you've probably seen].
For gods sake, let it heal.
There is a history lesson alright: it was an idiotic fight picked by a bunch of paranoid lunatics. It killed, maimed and harmed a huge number of people for no reason at all.
Don't try to paint war-success stories from what is, at best, a cluster fuck of people that should know so much better.
At best, it is yet another lesson in how using weapons solves nothing. If I count correctly, the "using weapons group" is losing 30 to 1. When Afghanistan is over, it will be 31 to 1.
Would injest be a prefix?
I'm a very big supporter of bringing back a favourable climate for dinosaurs and such.
I saw a documentary once where they experimented with genetically reviving dinosaur DNA; and it looked pretty cool. If we made a more hospitable climate for them, maybe it could work in the future.
In the past, people used to keep them as pets, and bbq'd brontosauruses; that would be cool too. This time round, we would still have the oil from the 1st Gen Dino's; so we wouldn't need those foot powered cars.
Lets get burning everything we can.
"in-" is a negative prefix.
I was going to mod you in-sightful ; but I doubt anyone would get the joke.
Are you in genius, in competent, in capable... - BB.
I took apart a 5yr old imac to replace a dead hard drive; it was far from a simple task to dis and re assemble without breaking bits, etc... Kinda easy to see why the drive isn't more accessible....
Anti-Competitive needn't be limited to sleazy back room dealings to prevent competitors access to the market.
Apple's devices, in particular, have been unassailable; which puts other CE manufacturers in an awkward position. If Apple could be counted on to add a little "Redmond design" to each product, there would be a more competitive landscape.
That said, I wouldn't want a TV with a slick user interface or less than 40 buttons on the remote control. I'd spend too much time watching it. Go Sony!
640K cores is enough for anyone.
Yes, that innovative fuel source has been just around the corner for some time now. I'm still waiting for my flying car.
Increased agricultural yields are of questionable sustainability. In that, they might be another form of debt, as in borrowing from the future.
Mostly, you can't effectively eat computers, burn computers for energy, or build things with computers, so they are not a basis for expansion.
Limitless imagination was where the debt spiral began; sadly it isn't panning out so well. Knowledge economy will be a nice matching bookend to Tulip economy; leaving people scratching their heads and saying ' were they really that stupid ?'
What exactly do you want it to be based on? The number of Jesus' hairs in the shroud?
Drowning in debt is a wonderful horror story, but anybody who tries to collect on it will be facing a horde of nuke-equipped "non-hostile" drones.
Its not like it is a cancer that increasing destroys everything in its path, its just a paltry concern to be taken care of when we can afford it. Clinton nearly destroyed the US by actually reducing it; and thus transferring power back to the people. Thankfully the clear thinking people of Florida put an end to that loser strategy.
We have freedom, and the love and admiration of the surviving family members of the bombed. We are bombing the Love into them.
Not sure that is actually a word, but have a peek at:
http://www.qnx.com/company/30ways
QNX has been around, and literally around you, for a long time.
disclaimer: former employee.