Adding shadows and other indicators becomes tricky when scaling, given different potential backgrounds and contexts, so they went to the lowest common denominator.
How so? Gradients, shadows, and overlapping objects easily scale. Gradients are just a simple single or multi-variable algebraic equation which looks the same at any scale. Shadows are just creating a penumbra, which is done with a simple unsharp formula, which is less than trivial for modern CPUs to calculate in real-time. Overlapping objects is simple clipping.
Even doing these at an absurdly high resolution, such as 16k, is rather simple. And there's no need whatsoever to customize them on a per-DPI basis.
Not exactly. Microsoft's "theme" now is flat UI. A lot of people think that means it just looks clean and simple (like what Google has been doing since...forever,) which is wrong. Flat meaning there's no sense of depth. So no shadows, no overlapping, no gradients, no sense of 3d whatsoever. The only differentiation between UI objects is a solid color change.
Having a flat UI is easy to scale. But IMO it is very uninspired.
GP says it's a hipster design that Google and Apple have been doing. Apple yes, Google no. Apple did copy Microsoft, however that was after Microsoft really badly learned from (but did not copy) Google. Microsoft dropped the skeumorphs Google doesn't use flat UI's. For example, open up chrome, and notice a gradient over the button bar, notice how the tab corners overlap, etc.
Google's new Material Design specifically includes both overlapping objects and shadows. Simple in appearance? Yes. Flat? No. But it still scales to different resolutions just as easily as a flat UI.
Following Microsoft's usual pattern, you can expect RTM to be at least 6 months prior to general availability. So yeah, I think mid July is a likely time period.
There never was a middle class. Never has been. It's always just been a line that politicians and pundits have artificially drawn in order to make talking points in order to name and shame their enemies so that they can rally more followers, but there's no mathematical or any other basis for it.
Watch this commentary on it by a physics professor at 18:12
Having rich and poor is an inevitable feature of any civilization that has ever existed or ever will exist. The societies that try to eliminate it (namely, communists) end up destabilizing quickly.
Finally, claiming that it is the POOR that pay for these subsidies is a joke. Right now, in America, the bottom 50% pay NOTHING in the federal taxes. So, like the rest of your post, total BS.
I don't think that's the argument. I think the argument is that it could be feeding poor people instead, or giving poor people a home, or something like that. Because, you know, we must be giving all of the money to the poor.
Though in reality the poor people are already fed and already have a place to live if they even put in a tiny amount of effort to get one. I was just talking to a recovering addict who told me that he knows of homeless people that get $1,200 disability checks for drug induced schizophrenia, and then just use the money to buy more drugs, and couldn't care less about paying rent.
A big screen TV is no longer a rich man's luxury. The best displays are about $2,000. If you pay more, either you're paying for a brand, or you are buying a jumbo screen that's 65" or higher. Which even then, it isn't going to exceed $10,000 unless either you buy snake oil shit (think the 'monster cable' of TVs) or you buy something that's so big it can't even fit into the living room of a typical mansion.
The rich man's luxury these days depends on the kind of rich man you are. Some like coke and sex parties, some like menageries, some like exotic car collections, some like Learjets, some like live-in sushi chefs, and some like to own one of every kind of weapon in existence.
John Mcafee for example loves coke and sex parties.
And going with Google means you lose that one when Google goes out of business. Which, I promise you, it will eventually.
If you're worried about changing ISPs a lot, then pay a few bucks a year and get one with a dedicated email hosting company, of which there are many. The price is negligible, roughly the price of a cup or two of coffee per year.
Dedicated email hosting companies, including those you pay actual money for, would go out of business much easier than Google would. Google's size and reach is vast. Google would have to be sitting on a net operating loss of several million per year for a few decades before they'd ever go out of business.
Meanwhile, a single recession could potentially kill a dedicated email company.
Actually to be honest, this entire year I've had my AC off during the day. I only turn it on at night because I'm one of those people who feel hot when they sleep, even when it isn't hot in the room. (Which is an annoying problem to have by the way, I've lost so much good quality sleep time over it.)
I'm still not sure what the big deal is. The description sounds like a typical summer afternoon here in Phoenix. I don't mind riding my bike for a few hours at a time in direct sunlight when its 115F and in the middle of the afternoon. The hottest it has gotten here was I believe 123F, which was some time during the 90's.
Our average daily humidity is about 37%, though it runs about 10% in the afternoon most of the time, I can recall at least a few times where it was 35% humidity at 110F in the afternoon, and it didn't bother me.
However not this year. This year has had one of the coldest winters I can remember, and so far this summer it has rarely exceeded the triple digits, which is a little unusual for a non-monsoon year, but it's by far not the first time either.
BTW that post sounds kind of mean spirited to the OP in retrospect, which isn't intended, I'm just poking fun at creationist websites claiming that dinosaurs espousing the idea that "god let lizards live a long time so they grew big" which isn't supported by the fossil record.
I'm sorry, what? We're too busy laughing at the USA! USA! stuff we see on TV.
Exactly, because where you come from, the proof for every answer to every question can be backed with "I saw it on TV" and everybody instantly knows its true, making your country the smartest in the world. And every time somebody mentions something that Americans do, you reply with "well in the rest of the world, we do it this way" as if your country itself is the rest of the world, and that combined with the knowledge that you're better than Americans in every way instantly makes you proud to be from wherever it is you're from.
Probably because we don't want to spend 7 days going from LA to NY with 19th century technology when we can do it in less than 0.5 days using 20th century technology.
Or if it's only 300 miles away we still prefer a car because we can depart and return on whatever schedule we want, and when we get there we have our own self provided means of transportation that we can use on-demand instead of paying up the ass for a taxi or a rental car.
It's called being practical, and that's why we don't give a shit about passenger rails.
I have a better idea: Just use Android, only write a drop in replacement for Play Services. Pull an Amazon, only invite other OEMs to the party so that they sell your devices, and no walled garden.
Either that or Microsoft is sick and tired of competing with blackberry for the ass end of the smartphone market, and hopes to grow from 2.3% market share to 3.3% again.
Yes because everybody loves listening to a monotone voice for hours on end, as monotone means proper unbiasedness. And we get great gems of news stories like "Ottawa just began increasing the number of bike lanes throughout the city" because news stories like these are so heartwarming, even if you don't live in the same country as Ottawa.
I was a huge gamer as a kid (still do, when I have time) but the best programming I ever got into was scripting.
Though I think gaming did get me into my current career. Basically I used to spend a lot of time on IRC for the express purpose of pirating games when I was about 15, and basically learned about the innards of TCP/IP after learning about the back and forth hacking attacks different groups would use to take over each other's IRC channels. There was that, and trying to troubleshoot network issues for multiplayer gaming.
Of course, having a PC for gaming also motivated me to learn how to be a PC technician just for my own uses, which I did in my early 20s.
However I wouldn't say gaming in general is a good path to a technology-based career. Console gaming will never motivate you to learn anything at all about technology. Seriously, it won't, if you're going to learn about technology from gaming, it would HAVE to be on a PC where you have room to experiment.
"Black Lives Matter" isn't simply about the lives of Black people. It is specifically about how Black people are treated by law enforcement and the System in general. It is different from how White people are treated. I don't think that's really controversial. I'm not sure where your statistic about the fresh-off-the-boat African comes from, but he did not grow up in the same environment as the African American. It is about culture, as you say. But you can't critique that culture divorced from the context within which it formed.
Sure, black lives matter, but American blacks really need to clean up their act more than everybody else needs to give them a hand up. By constantly saying it's everybody else's fault, we're reinforcing their ideas about how they themselves deserve the world for free, which is the underlying cause of their problems.
And I can prove to you, without a shadow of a doubt, that the police, or even "the white man" are NOT the cause of it all. First, let's start here:
Anybody remember the big media shitstorm crying racism when Anthony Stokes was denied a heart transplant because of his long criminal record? Essentially he was given something so profoundly good, which would NEVER be given to a white person in the same situation: Even though the transplant team knew he wouldn't last long post transplant, he got it anyways because they were forced to feel sorry about black history. Not less than 18 months after his transplant, he dies in a criminal rampage after he shot an elderly lady and ran over a pedestrian.
Now, who do we blame for that one? Well, look at the photos he took of himself. He fancied himself a thug, plain and simple. You can tell that's what he wanted to be when he grew up, because he thought it was cool. That is something he learned from black culture, (think like hip-hop music that always glorifies that) not from the white man, not from police.
Most call girls, especially black call girls, refuse to take calls from black men. The black call girls indicate the same reason as the white ones, and that reason is very interesting: Black men have a cultural mindset that they are god's gift of masculinity to the world and can just do whatever the hell they want, and are really rough during sex to the point of it being painful, and they also try to short them on money because they have the attitude that they were so good that they get to pay less.
They do often make exceptions for men who don't sound black on the phone, because they say that usually those ones aren't tainted by "black culture" and will actually behave like gentlemen. That and they'll often accept blacks who are current or ex-military (as I myself can attest, the military will take that shit culture out of anybody) or older blacks who tend to have a better sense of humility.
These are the kind of black men who escaped the disaster that is black culture.
Basically, we as humans are naturally driven to associate with people who look like ourselves. When people tend to stick around one another, they tend to develop similar mannerisms and cultural traits that are different from others. That said, it makes perfect sense why blacks in America would act differently than any other ethnic group in America, and also why they would act different from blacks in other countries (there's a geographical separation.)
That said, very often it occurs that blacks reinforce to themselves that they, as human beings, deserve more than they are given, so they have to take it by whatever means necessary.
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Adding shadows and other indicators becomes tricky when scaling, given different potential backgrounds and contexts, so they went to the lowest common denominator.
How so? Gradients, shadows, and overlapping objects easily scale. Gradients are just a simple single or multi-variable algebraic equation which looks the same at any scale. Shadows are just creating a penumbra, which is done with a simple unsharp formula, which is less than trivial for modern CPUs to calculate in real-time. Overlapping objects is simple clipping.
Even doing these at an absurdly high resolution, such as 16k, is rather simple. And there's no need whatsoever to customize them on a per-DPI basis.
Oops made an editing mistake in that second paragraph. Oh well.
Not exactly. Microsoft's "theme" now is flat UI. A lot of people think that means it just looks clean and simple (like what Google has been doing since...forever,) which is wrong. Flat meaning there's no sense of depth. So no shadows, no overlapping, no gradients, no sense of 3d whatsoever. The only differentiation between UI objects is a solid color change.
Having a flat UI is easy to scale. But IMO it is very uninspired.
GP says it's a hipster design that Google and Apple have been doing. Apple yes, Google no. Apple did copy Microsoft, however that was after Microsoft really badly learned from (but did not copy) Google. Microsoft dropped the skeumorphs Google doesn't use flat UI's. For example, open up chrome, and notice a gradient over the button bar, notice how the tab corners overlap, etc.
Google's new Material Design specifically includes both overlapping objects and shadows. Simple in appearance? Yes. Flat? No. But it still scales to different resolutions just as easily as a flat UI.
Newegg has it available for pre-order and set for an August 31 release date.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...
Following Microsoft's usual pattern, you can expect RTM to be at least 6 months prior to general availability. So yeah, I think mid July is a likely time period.
There never was a middle class. Never has been. It's always just been a line that politicians and pundits have artificially drawn in order to make talking points in order to name and shame their enemies so that they can rally more followers, but there's no mathematical or any other basis for it.
Watch this commentary on it by a physics professor at 18:12
http://www.dailymotion.com/vid...
Having rich and poor is an inevitable feature of any civilization that has ever existed or ever will exist. The societies that try to eliminate it (namely, communists) end up destabilizing quickly.
Finally, claiming that it is the POOR that pay for these subsidies is a joke. Right now, in America, the bottom 50% pay NOTHING in the federal taxes. So, like the rest of your post, total BS.
I don't think that's the argument. I think the argument is that it could be feeding poor people instead, or giving poor people a home, or something like that. Because, you know, we must be giving all of the money to the poor.
Though in reality the poor people are already fed and already have a place to live if they even put in a tiny amount of effort to get one. I was just talking to a recovering addict who told me that he knows of homeless people that get $1,200 disability checks for drug induced schizophrenia, and then just use the money to buy more drugs, and couldn't care less about paying rent.
A big screen TV is no longer a rich man's luxury. The best displays are about $2,000. If you pay more, either you're paying for a brand, or you are buying a jumbo screen that's 65" or higher. Which even then, it isn't going to exceed $10,000 unless either you buy snake oil shit (think the 'monster cable' of TVs) or you buy something that's so big it can't even fit into the living room of a typical mansion.
The rich man's luxury these days depends on the kind of rich man you are. Some like coke and sex parties, some like menageries, some like exotic car collections, some like Learjets, some like live-in sushi chefs, and some like to own one of every kind of weapon in existence.
John Mcafee for example loves coke and sex parties.
Until they're bought by BiggerCableCo who then converts it to an @biggercableco domain, and you lose all of your contacts.
And going with Google means you lose that one when Google goes out of business. Which, I promise you, it will eventually.
If you're worried about changing ISPs a lot, then pay a few bucks a year and get one with a dedicated email hosting company, of which there are many. The price is negligible, roughly the price of a cup or two of coffee per year.
Dedicated email hosting companies, including those you pay actual money for, would go out of business much easier than Google would. Google's size and reach is vast. Google would have to be sitting on a net operating loss of several million per year for a few decades before they'd ever go out of business.
Meanwhile, a single recession could potentially kill a dedicated email company.
Actually to be honest, this entire year I've had my AC off during the day. I only turn it on at night because I'm one of those people who feel hot when they sleep, even when it isn't hot in the room. (Which is an annoying problem to have by the way, I've lost so much good quality sleep time over it.)
I'm still not sure what the big deal is. The description sounds like a typical summer afternoon here in Phoenix. I don't mind riding my bike for a few hours at a time in direct sunlight when its 115F and in the middle of the afternoon. The hottest it has gotten here was I believe 123F, which was some time during the 90's.
Our average daily humidity is about 37%, though it runs about 10% in the afternoon most of the time, I can recall at least a few times where it was 35% humidity at 110F in the afternoon, and it didn't bother me.
However not this year. This year has had one of the coldest winters I can remember, and so far this summer it has rarely exceeded the triple digits, which is a little unusual for a non-monsoon year, but it's by far not the first time either.
That does not mean that T-Rex had them or that triceratops had them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
While the triceratops may not have had them, they also have three digits and a proto beak, two traits I've never heard of in any lizard.
Well, some of them actually do look like lizards.
A dead giveaway that it's not a dinosaur is (among other things) its 5 digits. All dinosaurs had 3 digits.
At first I read that as "What if you empty a patent attorney" and was thinking: Is it possible to make a patent attorney poor right now?
BTW that post sounds kind of mean spirited to the OP in retrospect, which isn't intended, I'm just poking fun at creationist websites claiming that dinosaurs espousing the idea that "god let lizards live a long time so they grew big" which isn't supported by the fossil record.
Dinosaurs, the ones related to lizards
Uhh...wut? Just because they looked like overgrown lizards in Jurassic Park, doesn't mean they're related to lizards.
Here's Jur ass has had it Park's raptor:
http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/...
Here's what a raptor probably looked like IRL:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Now what modern animal does the likely IRL version of a raptor resemble? If you guessed lizard, then I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, what? We're too busy laughing at the USA! USA! stuff we see on TV.
Exactly, because where you come from, the proof for every answer to every question can be backed with "I saw it on TV" and everybody instantly knows its true, making your country the smartest in the world. And every time somebody mentions something that Americans do, you reply with "well in the rest of the world, we do it this way" as if your country itself is the rest of the world, and that combined with the knowledge that you're better than Americans in every way instantly makes you proud to be from wherever it is you're from.
Probably because we don't want to spend 7 days going from LA to NY with 19th century technology when we can do it in less than 0.5 days using 20th century technology.
Or if it's only 300 miles away we still prefer a car because we can depart and return on whatever schedule we want, and when we get there we have our own self provided means of transportation that we can use on-demand instead of paying up the ass for a taxi or a rental car.
It's called being practical, and that's why we don't give a shit about passenger rails.
I have a better idea: Just use Android, only write a drop in replacement for Play Services. Pull an Amazon, only invite other OEMs to the party so that they sell your devices, and no walled garden.
Either that or Microsoft is sick and tired of competing with blackberry for the ass end of the smartphone market, and hopes to grow from 2.3% market share to 3.3% again.
Look Bro, you may want to take some time listening, watching, or even reading these two sources
I have.
In other words, confederations don't work. Federations and empires do however.
Yes because everybody loves listening to a monotone voice for hours on end, as monotone means proper unbiasedness. And we get great gems of news stories like "Ottawa just began increasing the number of bike lanes throughout the city" because news stories like these are so heartwarming, even if you don't live in the same country as Ottawa.
I was a huge gamer as a kid (still do, when I have time) but the best programming I ever got into was scripting.
Though I think gaming did get me into my current career. Basically I used to spend a lot of time on IRC for the express purpose of pirating games when I was about 15, and basically learned about the innards of TCP/IP after learning about the back and forth hacking attacks different groups would use to take over each other's IRC channels. There was that, and trying to troubleshoot network issues for multiplayer gaming.
Of course, having a PC for gaming also motivated me to learn how to be a PC technician just for my own uses, which I did in my early 20s.
However I wouldn't say gaming in general is a good path to a technology-based career. Console gaming will never motivate you to learn anything at all about technology. Seriously, it won't, if you're going to learn about technology from gaming, it would HAVE to be on a PC where you have room to experiment.
"Black Lives Matter" isn't simply about the lives of Black people. It is specifically about how Black people are treated by law enforcement and the System in general. It is different from how White people are treated. I don't think that's really controversial. I'm not sure where your statistic about the fresh-off-the-boat African comes from, but he did not grow up in the same environment as the African American. It is about culture, as you say. But you can't critique that culture divorced from the context within which it formed.
Sure, black lives matter, but American blacks really need to clean up their act more than everybody else needs to give them a hand up. By constantly saying it's everybody else's fault, we're reinforcing their ideas about how they themselves deserve the world for free, which is the underlying cause of their problems.
And I can prove to you, without a shadow of a doubt, that the police, or even "the white man" are NOT the cause of it all. First, let's start here:
http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/...
Anybody remember the big media shitstorm crying racism when Anthony Stokes was denied a heart transplant because of his long criminal record? Essentially he was given something so profoundly good, which would NEVER be given to a white person in the same situation: Even though the transplant team knew he wouldn't last long post transplant, he got it anyways because they were forced to feel sorry about black history. Not less than 18 months after his transplant, he dies in a criminal rampage after he shot an elderly lady and ran over a pedestrian.
Now, who do we blame for that one? Well, look at the photos he took of himself. He fancied himself a thug, plain and simple. You can tell that's what he wanted to be when he grew up, because he thought it was cool. That is something he learned from black culture, (think like hip-hop music that always glorifies that) not from the white man, not from police.
Now let's look here: https://maggiemcneill.wordpres...
Most call girls, especially black call girls, refuse to take calls from black men. The black call girls indicate the same reason as the white ones, and that reason is very interesting: Black men have a cultural mindset that they are god's gift of masculinity to the world and can just do whatever the hell they want, and are really rough during sex to the point of it being painful, and they also try to short them on money because they have the attitude that they were so good that they get to pay less.
They do often make exceptions for men who don't sound black on the phone, because they say that usually those ones aren't tainted by "black culture" and will actually behave like gentlemen. That and they'll often accept blacks who are current or ex-military (as I myself can attest, the military will take that shit culture out of anybody) or older blacks who tend to have a better sense of humility.
These are the kind of black men who escaped the disaster that is black culture.
As for why a lot of American blacks tend to behave the same way, look here: http://science.slashdot.org/st...
Basically, we as humans are naturally driven to associate with people who look like ourselves. When people tend to stick around one another, they tend to develop similar mannerisms and cultural traits that are different from others. That said, it makes perfect sense why blacks in America would act differently than any other ethnic group in America, and also why they would act different from blacks in other countries (there's a geographical separation.)
That said, very often it occurs that blacks reinforce to themselves that they, as human beings, deserve more than they are given, so they have to take it by whatever means necessary.