You didn't actually RTFA, did you? No, reading before spouting an opinion is apparently forbidden for people who pooh-pooh globabl warming.
The could be bad because a climate shift will cause the most classic reason for war to happen world-wide (i.e. resource starvation). People will squabble and war -- first economically, then militarily -- over control of the world's arable land and fresh water supply if a new Ice Age happens.
What, have you never head of HDCP before? You haven't been shopping for an HDTV lately, I take it. In fact, the new HDTV tuner cards from ATI and others all have HDCP support to prevent you from bypassing the damned digital broadcast flag.
Wheany's right. After all, how do you think your browser knows what image to download? How does the Junkbusters proxy know what ads to block? It's all done through the simple magic of HTML parsing.
Remember, all you have to do is keep a tie between the session cookie and the image that you rehost. Then you submit the answer the person provided via the form on the website which will ask for that session cookie (or use some session ID in a URL which is also easily stored). Viola! Free, registered spam account. Keeping data persistent like this is a no-brainer, especially when you just fetch it live everytime that someone brings up the porn account registration page.
Well, not that there isn't prior art for this out there somewhere, but are you sure that both that domain and that address existed before the patent was filed in 2000?
No, but you can download the image, rehost it, and keep the session open until the user enters its meaning in. Writing a proxy server isn't exactly rocket science.
No, what's poetic is that the cresses mean Stability and "Always Reliable" in the Victorian language of flowers. That's a pretty good meaning for a hardy weed meant to save lives. Though there is no specific meaning attached to the Thale Cress that I can find online, the Indian Cress is the flower of Warlike Trophies, which would be quite an ironic match.
The flaw in the Pinto was that a single bolt was a tad too long. When a rear-impact occured, it drove this metal bolt in through the wall of the tank, shedding sparks on the way in and igniting the gas. This is NOT common in better car designs.
One of her former trademarks was "The girl who don't take off clothes or let boys do naughty stuff with her body".
This was well understood by cynics of the day to be nothing more than a well-planned tease. By being the girl who was supposedly above all that, she actually created more desire for herself from the kind of people who put her up on a pedastal. The phenomena of web pages that counted down until she was "legal" was a natural outcome of this.
Once she had capitalized on repressed sex appeal, she was better able to flaunt it. If she had started flaunting it from the beginning, she wouldn't have been able to build the kind of buzz around her name that she had thanks to America's double-standard about the sexuality of teens before and after turning 18. It was a very well-orchastrated media campaign. Just now look at her.
Of course, she'll be yesterday's news in a few more years -- you can only ride that kind of wave so far without actual talent.
We'll, it's close to the history such things -- the use of a foot as the standard of measurement dates back to prehistory. Sometime in the 13th century, King Edward I of England ordered a permanent yardstick of iron to be made for use as a standard by the whole kingdom and declared the foot to be 1/3 of that length and the inch to be 1/36. That yardstick is pretty close to today's measure of a yard. However, King Edward II reverted back to the more primative measure of an inch as "three barleycorns, round and dry."
I pulled this from an article that I found via Google. From the same article:
In spite of repeated requests in Congress, there was no legal length standard in the U.S. until 1832. More or less authentic copies of the British copies of the yard were used as length prototypes. In 1832, the Treasury Department decided to admit as a legal Yard the distance between the lines 27 and 63 of a certain bronze bar, 82 inches in length, bought in 1813 in England for the Federal Survey Department. When the British yard bar, which was destroyed in 1834, was replaced in 1855, a new bronze copy No. 11 was sent to the United States which became the legal American Yard Standard.
Also from the timeline:
"1959 - Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States adopted common standards for the inch-pound system in metric terms. One inch was made equivalent to 2.54 centimetres and 1 pound was made equivalent to 0.453 592 37 kilograms. (The Coast and Geodetic Survey, which had used a slightly different conversion factor previously, retained their established relationship of 1 inch equaling 2.540.005 centimetres because of the extensive revisions which would be necessary to their charts and measurement records. The resulting foot based on this retained conversion is known as the U.S. Survey foot)."
You've completely missed the entire point of the test. This has nothing to do with your next purchase decision -- it's purely designed to test whether or not the common claim that using 64-bit values decreases performance due to memory latency is true. This test makes no claims whatsoever that it has anything to do with whether or not you should be using a 64-bit setup. RTFA.
The "obsolete architecture" is one of the few where 64-bit and 32-bit operations have no inherent performance advantage on the processor, unlike the Opteron and Itanium processors where 64-bit mode has several advantages over 32-bit mode (extra registers or not being emulated). This makes it a perfect testbed for evaluating this claim. The speed of the processor has absolutely no relevance to the question at hand (with the exception of testing memory access starvation on system with a greater CPU to bus clock difference).
It's a shame you're too wrapped up in a "buy, buy, buy" mindset to consider the value of curiosity and of testing commonly held beliefs.
Mr. Pot? Hi, I'm Mr. Pan. I represent a Mr. Kettle who alleges that you have called him black. I am here to serve you notice of the slander suit that we are bringing against you. Here are the papers, and have a nice day.
UGH! For the *last* time, people, it's "one Linus, two Lini"!
No, I'm afraid not.
Writers searching for a fancy plural in Linus decided incorrectly that the Latin word "linus," which means humble philosophy/math, should be pluralized in "lini," ignoring the existance of "lini" elsewhere as the plural of the Latin word "linum" which means flax or linen. While "linus" is a 2nd declension noun ending in -us, there doesn't seem to be any recorded use of its plural. Furthermore, it's a neuter, which is somewhat rare, but none of few the other 2nd declension neuter words (e.g. pelagus, the sea, or vulgus, the crowd) can be found with a plural ending. That's because these are all mass nouns, not count nouns.
Some people argue that it should be pluralized with an -ora ending like a 3rd declension neuters' plurals as for tempus or corpus, but there is little merit for the argument. There is even less merit for "linii" which is just silly because there is no "linius" to derive this from.
Therefore, as the noun is a modern English and Finnish loanword from the ancient Latin which has taken on new meaning, it is most appropriate to pluralize it in modern English as "Linuses."
Does anyone still believe that the USA Patriot Act will be used exclusively for criminal investigations?
Of course not! Why, didn't our President just say in his State of the Union address...
"I know that some people question if America is really in a war at all. They view terrorism more as a crime - a problem to be solved mainly with law enforcement and indictments.
"After the World Trade Center was first attacked in 1993, some of the guilty were indicted, tried, convicted and sent to prison.
"But the matter was not settled. The terrorists were still training and plotting in other nations, and drawing up more ambitious plans. After the chaos and carnage of Sept. 11, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.
"The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got."
See, the Patriot Act will only be used for naughty, naughty terrorists. We wouldn't want to use it on people who might actually have the protection of the Constitution to defend them -- only "unlawful combatants."
[We see Mark on a table, with two strange white "lights" folded down near his head. A sequined blanket is draped over him, and he lies down with his knees curled up into his chest. We see two aliens stand around him. One alien holds a strange device that looks kind of like a lightsaber, but with a solid white plastic piece where the beam would be.] Kevin: Ready the anal probe.
[Dave switches the device on as it begins to glow. It looks like a lightsaber with a small white beam] Dave: Anal probe is ready. Kevin: [nods] Commence anal probing.
[Mark screams loud and long as Dave sticks it where the sun don't shine. He pulls it out, after two seconds and pulls off the white plastic part [to sterilize it?] Dave: Quick, erase his memory!
[Kevin waves a hand over Mark as the two lighted "paddles" come up. Mark stops yelling and gets a calm look on his face] Kevin: Memory's erased. Get him out of here.
[Two other aliens come and start to wheel Mark off] Dave: Move it. [pauses as he moves closer to Kevin] Ah, boy. Kevin: Something wrong? Dave: Ah.. it's nothing really.... Kevin: I think you could use a cup of coffee. Dave: Yeah. [sighs]
[They move to a lounge where Kevin pours two cups of coffee. They keep talking as Dave sits down] Kevin: So what's bothering you? Dave: Ahhhh.... Lately I just keep wondering... what's the point? Kevin: The point? Dave: Yeah. What's the point of what we do? Kevin: Sorry, I don't follow you
[Kevin sits down] Dave: Well, I mean, we travel 250,000 light years across the universe, abduct humans, probe the anally and release them. Kevin: Yeah... AND? Dave: Well, doesn't it seem kind of point-LESS? Kevin: I really don't think about it. Dave: Well don't you think you should? Kevin: No, I don't think I should. I don't think I should question the leadership of our Great Leader Dave: Oh, come on! I mean, we've been coming here for 50 years and performing anal probes and all that we have learned is that 1 in 10 doesn't really seem to mind. Kevin: Well, do you have a better plan than our Great Leader? Dave: Yes I do, I do have a better plan. My plan is that we DON'T travel 250,000 light years, we DON'T abduct any humans and, this is the best part, we DON'T do any anal probing. Kevin: [sarcastic] Oh, great plan! Do you realize how many people Intergalactic Anal-Probing employees?
[They see that the next victim is ready. They put down the coffee and do the same motions as before, except Dave is very reluctant this time.] Kevin: Well back to work. Dave: Awww.. Kevin: Ready the anal probe. Dave: [unenthusiastic]Anal probe is ready. Kevin: Commence anal probing Dave:[rolling eyes, exasperated] Couldn't we at least abduct their political or religious leaders instead of just any idiot in a pickup truck?!?! Kevin: I'm sure the Great Leader has his reasons Dave: [sarcastic] Well, I'm sure the Great Leader is just some sort of twisted ass freak! Kevin: [calmly] All right. I am now officially ignoring you. Commence anal probing.
[Dave inserts the probe. This victim doesn't scream. Rather, he smiles and looks happy.] Dave: Well, that's a relief anyway. Erase his memory. Kevin [going through motions] Memory is erased. Dave: Get him out of here. Kevin: [to interns wheeling victim out.] Come on, kid. Move it. Move it!
[They move to the window and look out on the moon and the Earth] Kevin: You know what you need? A hobby. I know it helps me. Dave: Yeah? What do you do? Kevin: Well, I don't like to toot my own horn, but I'm a pretty good amateur rectal photographer. Would you like to see my portfolio? Dave: No. I would hate to. Kevin: Fine. Screw you. Dave: Well, Screw you.
[Kevin moves off, leaving Dave staring at the Earth]
Who literally cannot under any circumstances? I am not SPEWS, but I've never seen one.
You're also not a businessman. First of all, even if there are no riders on the contract for paying penalties for ending it early, there is the serious cost in time, manpower, and physical resources in moving a server farm from one co-lo to another. This cost is non-negligible and can range from a few paltry hundreds of dollars to millions depending on the size of your business. This is of course a crisis which the business hasn't had prior warning of and must do last minute planning for which is means being without revenue for long periods of time until the block is lifted.
It's the explicit goal of organizations like this to hurt innocent businesses so that they'll complain to their ISP or just stop doing business with them. Does SPEWS offer to help cover the cost of the economic damage they do to these deliberately targetted innocent people? Hell, no! They give lame excuses like...
[This] is exactly why you ought to do your damn homework and perform due diligence when researching your "very important" internet connection.
Oh, that's a really great justification. Blame the victim. (You sure you're not with SPEWS?)
After all, all "pink" ISPs are very up front about the fact that they host spam on their network to prospective customers, right? What great, omniscient lookup service would let a business know that an ISP is allowing spammers when said ISP has never been put on a spam list before? How do you really know you're safe from spam vigillantes when a business has had a clean record so far? You can't, but people like you will continue to blame the businesses that you ruin for not knowing better.
My roommate's starting up a small webhosting site soon, and I'm really worried for him that some jackass like you will come along and destroy everything he's worked for an all the money he's invested because we can't know with certainty whether or not his co-lo is tainted, but hey -- thanks for making the internet a safer place to do business in anyway.
Considering that they have yet to get power to so many of these areas, wouldn't it be wise to run fiber optic at the same time as they run new powerlines?
Oh, how Insightful. I mean, when wiring the third world, obviously money is no problem!
Reality check -- the reason why this is suggested as a solution for the third world is that all they have to do is just run the power cables instead of running the power cables and some other cabling system for phone, TV, and internet. We are talking about people who current can't even afford to run the power cables, much less fiber optic cables too.
The responses you see here aren't really negativism and pessimism. They're anti-Bush hysteria. If Howard Dean had announced the same plan...
Well, Howard Dean didn't do it, so until Dean announces something as irritating as this for national policy, we'll just have to wait on that prediction. Let's not fall into the Republican propoganda that anyone who disagrees with the President must be doing in out of a lack of patriotism or an irrational and petty hatred of the man. That's a very disingenuous attempt to label all who disagree with him as unthinking rubes, and it smacks of insulting intellectual dishonesty.
I've been pretty skeptical about the whole Mars mission thing since it was announced, though I was much happier over the Moon base idea. I've been of the opinion that a Moon base is a good idea for a while while a manned Mars mission is a huge waste of money right now until we can build the infrastructure and propulsion to better support it.
On the other hand, this is exactly the sort of thing I was dreading about the whole repurposing of NASA. Many valuable science projects are being killed for a "feel good", "bread and circuses" mission that will waste massive amounts of money when we're already $500 billion over budget and that relies on Presidents long after Bush to actually pull off. In essence, it isn't a vision so much as a cheap political stunt to try to look good while shifting 90% of the burden of carrying it through to another administration even if he gets reelected.
Frankly, I think the clerk who let this be filed should honestly be fired. What ever happened to "obvious to a practicioner of the art?" I just wish there was some sort of law that this incompitent idiot could be prosecuted or civilly sued for.
9. It is possible to do the same things as the Dock with less screen real-estate taken up. Take a look at the Windows task bar. Wasting space in the Dock only compounds the problem of wasted space in larger widgets for all apps and widely spaced Finder windows.
7 & 8. A single data point to distinguish files from one another is bad. More information can be presented there, but Apple doesn't take advantage of it. This forces users to hunt and peck for seemingly randomly reordered documents in the Dock which is inherently bad because it forces them to waste time mousing over icons. With more information, they could zero in on the proper target with a glance. Minimal action by the user to accomplish any task is the number one goal of UI design. The Dock violates this by making people hunt.
6. Actually, this is only one solution to 7-8, and it's not a complete one since Mac OS X only allows a handful of colors. This doesn't help distinguish between similar documents (which should often be labelled the same color if you're using a sane classification scheme). His point, really, is that they didn't fully implement a new feature like they should've.
5. The purpose of putting the Trash in the corner instead of the Dock is twofold. First, you want to have it in a consistent place so that you always know how to perform a common operation without a need for hunting as on the ever-shifting dock. This allows you to do it unconsciously without having to devote attention to it -- another good UI goal. Second, you want to use the corner because it's one of the easiest points on the screen to get to. You can't overshoot it easily since two edges of the screen act as a guide to direct your movement towards it.
Using Command-Delete shows that you are dependent on a keyboard/mouse interface rather than a purely mouse-based one. A system with multiple redundant ways of accomplishing the same task is more useful, and a system that allows a task to be done quickly using only a single input device is more useable because it does not require your hands to travel from one input device to another. Apple should've had a keyboard method for doing the Trash a long time ago, but having one now does not excuse making the purely mouse-based navigation system more difficult.
4. That's good if you are only having to deal with a mental stack size of 1. However, as you work with minimizing and maximizing multiple documents, you constantly reorder the Dock. Unless you have perfect memory of what order you last touched all the documents, you have to go hunting. Also, the documents and applications do not consistently follow the same order between different work session. This prevents you from unconsciously taking advantage of "muscle memory" to navigate to the icons without looking at them. This slows one down and is thusly bad UI design.
3. Wait -- you use the Dock in hidden mode all the time, and you never ever have to deal with it popping up when you drag your mouse down towards the bottom of an app that you're working with? I call BS. That or else you work with a far larger desktop than my pitiful 1280 X 1024. The Dock could accomplish the auto-hide feature the same way the Windows task bar does -- it could provide a small, visible zone to hover over to get access to. That would accomplish the same goal with far less irritation and far less screen real estate walled-off by its pop-up behavior.
2. I honestly can't see how tabbed folders were harder to work with than the dock. They were drag-and-drop just like any other folder window and just like the Dock. Plus, by being static, you could once again take advantage of muscle memory. The fixed, alphabetical order of the Apple menu was a flaw, but it was at least CONSISTENT. All the icons were where they were the last time you used them, irregardless of what apps you currently have open. This allowed people to effectively memorize their locations and not have to hunt. Your common apps in th
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You didn't actually RTFA, did you? No, reading before spouting an opinion is apparently forbidden for people who pooh-pooh globabl warming.
The could be bad because a climate shift will cause the most classic reason for war to happen world-wide (i.e. resource starvation). People will squabble and war -- first economically, then militarily -- over control of the world's arable land and fresh water supply if a new Ice Age happens.
However, this time, the hominids have nukes.
What, have you never head of HDCP before? You haven't been shopping for an HDTV lately, I take it. In fact, the new HDTV tuner cards from ATI and others all have HDCP support to prevent you from bypassing the damned digital broadcast flag.
just brainless male bushido
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Perhaps, you meant machismo instead of bushido?
Are you giving Darl McBride credit for doing something NICE for the internet?
Wheany's right. After all, how do you think your browser knows what image to download? How does the Junkbusters proxy know what ads to block? It's all done through the simple magic of HTML parsing.
Remember, all you have to do is keep a tie between the session cookie and the image that you rehost. Then you submit the answer the person provided via the form on the website which will ask for that session cookie (or use some session ID in a URL which is also easily stored). Viola! Free, registered spam account. Keeping data persistent like this is a no-brainer, especially when you just fetch it live everytime that someone brings up the porn account registration page.
It's really dirt simple.
Well, not that there isn't prior art for this out there somewhere, but are you sure that both that domain and that address existed before the patent was filed in 2000?
With enough of these, the feds will be forced to re-examine the system.
*sniff* [Wipes tear from eye] Man, you're such a kidder.
The government will never reign in one of its few offices that actually has a positive revenue flow.
No, but you can download the image, rehost it, and keep the session open until the user enters its meaning in. Writing a proxy server isn't exactly rocket science.
No, what's poetic is that the cresses mean Stability and "Always Reliable" in the Victorian language of flowers. That's a pretty good meaning for a hardy weed meant to save lives. Though there is no specific meaning attached to the Thale Cress that I can find online, the Indian Cress is the flower of Warlike Trophies, which would be quite an ironic match.
The flaw in the Pinto was that a single bolt was a tad too long. When a rear-impact occured, it drove this metal bolt in through the wall of the tank, shedding sparks on the way in and igniting the gas. This is NOT common in better car designs.
One of her former trademarks was "The girl who don't take off clothes or let boys do naughty stuff with her body".
This was well understood by cynics of the day to be nothing more than a well-planned tease. By being the girl who was supposedly above all that, she actually created more desire for herself from the kind of people who put her up on a pedastal. The phenomena of web pages that counted down until she was "legal" was a natural outcome of this.
Once she had capitalized on repressed sex appeal, she was better able to flaunt it. If she had started flaunting it from the beginning, she wouldn't have been able to build the kind of buzz around her name that she had thanks to America's double-standard about the sexuality of teens before and after turning 18. It was a very well-orchastrated media campaign. Just now look at her.
Of course, she'll be yesterday's news in a few more years -- you can only ride that kind of wave so far without actual talent.
I pulled this from an article that I found via Google. From the same article:Also from the timeline:
This is modded Insightful?
You've completely missed the entire point of the test. This has nothing to do with your next purchase decision -- it's purely designed to test whether or not the common claim that using 64-bit values decreases performance due to memory latency is true. This test makes no claims whatsoever that it has anything to do with whether or not you should be using a 64-bit setup. RTFA.
The "obsolete architecture" is one of the few where 64-bit and 32-bit operations have no inherent performance advantage on the processor, unlike the Opteron and Itanium processors where 64-bit mode has several advantages over 32-bit mode (extra registers or not being emulated). This makes it a perfect testbed for evaluating this claim. The speed of the processor has absolutely no relevance to the question at hand (with the exception of testing memory access starvation on system with a greater CPU to bus clock difference).
It's a shame you're too wrapped up in a "buy, buy, buy" mindset to consider the value of curiosity and of testing commonly held beliefs.
There's no step three! There's no step three!
Oh, and you need a sense of the funny.
Mr. Pot? Hi, I'm Mr. Pan. I represent a Mr. Kettle who alleges that you have called him black. I am here to serve you notice of the slander suit that we are bringing against you. Here are the papers, and have a nice day.
UGH! For the *last* time, people, it's "one Linus, two Lini"!
No, I'm afraid not.
Writers searching for a fancy plural in Linus decided incorrectly that the Latin word "linus," which means humble philosophy/math, should be pluralized in "lini," ignoring the existance of "lini" elsewhere as the plural of the Latin word "linum" which means flax or linen. While "linus" is a 2nd declension noun ending in -us, there doesn't seem to be any recorded use of its plural. Furthermore, it's a neuter, which is somewhat rare, but none of few the other 2nd declension neuter words (e.g. pelagus, the sea, or vulgus, the crowd) can be found with a plural ending. That's because these are all mass nouns, not count nouns.
Some people argue that it should be pluralized with an -ora ending like a 3rd declension neuters' plurals as for tempus or corpus, but there is little merit for the argument. There is even less merit for "linii" which is just silly because there is no "linius" to derive this from.
Therefore, as the noun is a modern English and Finnish loanword from the ancient Latin which has taken on new meaning, it is most appropriate to pluralize it in modern English as "Linuses."
Of course not! Why, didn't our President just say in his State of the Union address...
See, the Patriot Act will only be used for naughty, naughty terrorists. We wouldn't want to use it on people who might actually have the protection of the Constitution to defend them -- only "unlawful combatants."
I prefer something catchier, something that people can hear as a difference...
How about Watergate XP?
I love that routine...
[We see Mark on a table, with two strange white "lights" folded down near his head. A sequined blanket is draped over him, and he lies down with his knees curled up into his chest. We see two aliens stand around him. One alien holds a strange device that looks kind of like a lightsaber, but with a solid white plastic piece where the beam would be.]
Kevin: Ready the anal probe.
[Dave switches the device on as it begins to glow. It looks like a lightsaber with a small white beam]
Dave: Anal probe is ready.
Kevin: [nods] Commence anal probing.
[Mark screams loud and long as Dave sticks it where the sun don't shine. He pulls it out, after two seconds and pulls off the white plastic part [to sterilize it?]
Dave: Quick, erase his memory!
[Kevin waves a hand over Mark as the two lighted "paddles" come up. Mark stops yelling and gets a calm look on his face]
Kevin: Memory's erased. Get him out of here.
[Two other aliens come and start to wheel Mark off]
Dave: Move it. [pauses as he moves closer to Kevin] Ah, boy.
Kevin: Something wrong?
Dave: Ah.. it's nothing really....
Kevin: I think you could use a cup of coffee.
Dave: Yeah. [sighs]
[They move to a lounge where Kevin pours two cups of coffee. They keep talking as Dave sits down]
Kevin: So what's bothering you?
Dave: Ahhhh.... Lately I just keep wondering... what's the point?
Kevin: The point?
Dave: Yeah. What's the point of what we do?
Kevin: Sorry, I don't follow you
[Kevin sits down]
Dave: Well, I mean, we travel 250,000 light years across the universe, abduct humans, probe the anally and release them.
Kevin: Yeah... AND?
Dave: Well, doesn't it seem kind of point-LESS?
Kevin: I really don't think about it.
Dave: Well don't you think you should?
Kevin: No, I don't think I should. I don't think I should question the leadership of our Great Leader
Dave: Oh, come on! I mean, we've been coming here for 50 years and performing anal probes and all that we have learned is that 1 in 10 doesn't really seem to mind.
Kevin: Well, do you have a better plan than our Great Leader?
Dave: Yes I do, I do have a better plan. My plan is that we DON'T travel 250,000 light years, we DON'T abduct any humans and, this is the best part, we DON'T do any anal probing.
Kevin: [sarcastic] Oh, great plan! Do you realize how many people Intergalactic Anal-Probing employees?
[They see that the next victim is ready. They put down the coffee and do the same motions as before, except Dave is very reluctant this time.]
Kevin: Well back to work.
Dave: Awww..
Kevin: Ready the anal probe.
Dave: [unenthusiastic]Anal probe is ready.
Kevin: Commence anal probing
Dave:[rolling eyes, exasperated] Couldn't we at least abduct their political or religious leaders instead of just any idiot in a pickup truck?!?!
Kevin: I'm sure the Great Leader has his reasons
Dave: [sarcastic] Well, I'm sure the Great Leader is just some sort of twisted ass freak!
Kevin: [calmly] All right. I am now officially ignoring you. Commence anal probing.
[Dave inserts the probe. This victim doesn't scream. Rather, he smiles and looks happy.]
Dave: Well, that's a relief anyway. Erase his memory.
Kevin [going through motions] Memory is erased.
Dave: Get him out of here.
Kevin: [to interns wheeling victim out.] Come on, kid. Move it. Move it!
[They move to the window and look out on the moon and the Earth]
Kevin: You know what you need? A hobby. I know it helps me.
Dave: Yeah? What do you do?
Kevin: Well, I don't like to toot my own horn, but I'm a pretty good amateur rectal photographer. Would you like to see my portfolio?
Dave: No. I would hate to.
Kevin: Fine. Screw you.
Dave: Well, Screw you.
[Kevin moves off, leaving Dave staring at the Earth]
Who literally cannot under any circumstances? I am not SPEWS, but I've never seen one.
You're also not a businessman. First of all, even if there are no riders on the contract for paying penalties for ending it early, there is the serious cost in time, manpower, and physical resources in moving a server farm from one co-lo to another. This cost is non-negligible and can range from a few paltry hundreds of dollars to millions depending on the size of your business. This is of course a crisis which the business hasn't had prior warning of and must do last minute planning for which is means being without revenue for long periods of time until the block is lifted.
It's the explicit goal of organizations like this to hurt innocent businesses so that they'll complain to their ISP or just stop doing business with them. Does SPEWS offer to help cover the cost of the economic damage they do to these deliberately targetted innocent people? Hell, no! They give lame excuses like...
[This] is exactly why you ought to do your damn homework and perform due diligence when researching your "very important" internet connection.
Oh, that's a really great justification. Blame the victim. (You sure you're not with SPEWS?)
After all, all "pink" ISPs are very up front about the fact that they host spam on their network to prospective customers, right? What great, omniscient lookup service would let a business know that an ISP is allowing spammers when said ISP has never been put on a spam list before? How do you really know you're safe from spam vigillantes when a business has had a clean record so far? You can't, but people like you will continue to blame the businesses that you ruin for not knowing better.
My roommate's starting up a small webhosting site soon, and I'm really worried for him that some jackass like you will come along and destroy everything he's worked for an all the money he's invested because we can't know with certainty whether or not his co-lo is tainted, but hey -- thanks for making the internet a safer place to do business in anyway.
Considering that they have yet to get power to so many of these areas, wouldn't it be wise to run fiber optic at the same time as they run new powerlines?
Oh, how Insightful. I mean, when wiring the third world, obviously money is no problem!
Reality check -- the reason why this is suggested as a solution for the third world is that all they have to do is just run the power cables instead of running the power cables and some other cabling system for phone, TV, and internet. We are talking about people who current can't even afford to run the power cables, much less fiber optic cables too.
The responses you see here aren't really negativism and pessimism. They're anti-Bush hysteria. If Howard Dean had announced the same plan...
Well, Howard Dean didn't do it, so until Dean announces something as irritating as this for national policy, we'll just have to wait on that prediction. Let's not fall into the Republican propoganda that anyone who disagrees with the President must be doing in out of a lack of patriotism or an irrational and petty hatred of the man. That's a very disingenuous attempt to label all who disagree with him as unthinking rubes, and it smacks of insulting intellectual dishonesty.
I've been pretty skeptical about the whole Mars mission thing since it was announced, though I was much happier over the Moon base idea. I've been of the opinion that a Moon base is a good idea for a while while a manned Mars mission is a huge waste of money right now until we can build the infrastructure and propulsion to better support it.
On the other hand, this is exactly the sort of thing I was dreading about the whole repurposing of NASA. Many valuable science projects are being killed for a "feel good", "bread and circuses" mission that will waste massive amounts of money when we're already $500 billion over budget and that relies on Presidents long after Bush to actually pull off. In essence, it isn't a vision so much as a cheap political stunt to try to look good while shifting 90% of the burden of carrying it through to another administration even if he gets reelected.
Frankly, I think the clerk who let this be filed should honestly be fired. What ever happened to "obvious to a practicioner of the art?" I just wish there was some sort of law that this incompitent idiot could be prosecuted or civilly sued for.
Is that the new term for "mutant commie traitors"?
Well, I thought it was funny.
Too bad you got mod-robbed.
Point by point:
9. It is possible to do the same things as the Dock with less screen real-estate taken up. Take a look at the Windows task bar. Wasting space in the Dock only compounds the problem of wasted space in larger widgets for all apps and widely spaced Finder windows.
7 & 8. A single data point to distinguish files from one another is bad. More information can be presented there, but Apple doesn't take advantage of it. This forces users to hunt and peck for seemingly randomly reordered documents in the Dock which is inherently bad because it forces them to waste time mousing over icons. With more information, they could zero in on the proper target with a glance. Minimal action by the user to accomplish any task is the number one goal of UI design. The Dock violates this by making people hunt.
6. Actually, this is only one solution to 7-8, and it's not a complete one since Mac OS X only allows a handful of colors. This doesn't help distinguish between similar documents (which should often be labelled the same color if you're using a sane classification scheme). His point, really, is that they didn't fully implement a new feature like they should've.
5. The purpose of putting the Trash in the corner instead of the Dock is twofold. First, you want to have it in a consistent place so that you always know how to perform a common operation without a need for hunting as on the ever-shifting dock. This allows you to do it unconsciously without having to devote attention to it -- another good UI goal. Second, you want to use the corner because it's one of the easiest points on the screen to get to. You can't overshoot it easily since two edges of the screen act as a guide to direct your movement towards it.
Using Command-Delete shows that you are dependent on a keyboard/mouse interface rather than a purely mouse-based one. A system with multiple redundant ways of accomplishing the same task is more useful, and a system that allows a task to be done quickly using only a single input device is more useable because it does not require your hands to travel from one input device to another. Apple should've had a keyboard method for doing the Trash a long time ago, but having one now does not excuse making the purely mouse-based navigation system more difficult.
4. That's good if you are only having to deal with a mental stack size of 1. However, as you work with minimizing and maximizing multiple documents, you constantly reorder the Dock. Unless you have perfect memory of what order you last touched all the documents, you have to go hunting. Also, the documents and applications do not consistently follow the same order between different work session. This prevents you from unconsciously taking advantage of "muscle memory" to navigate to the icons without looking at them. This slows one down and is thusly bad UI design.
3. Wait -- you use the Dock in hidden mode all the time, and you never ever have to deal with it popping up when you drag your mouse down towards the bottom of an app that you're working with? I call BS. That or else you work with a far larger desktop than my pitiful 1280 X 1024. The Dock could accomplish the auto-hide feature the same way the Windows task bar does -- it could provide a small, visible zone to hover over to get access to. That would accomplish the same goal with far less irritation and far less screen real estate walled-off by its pop-up behavior.
2. I honestly can't see how tabbed folders were harder to work with than the dock. They were drag-and-drop just like any other folder window and just like the Dock. Plus, by being static, you could once again take advantage of muscle memory. The fixed, alphabetical order of the Apple menu was a flaw, but it was at least CONSISTENT. All the icons were where they were the last time you used them, irregardless of what apps you currently have open. This allowed people to effectively memorize their locations and not have to hunt. Your common apps in th