Sure, you can just force the user to do everything with keyboard shortcuts, and just get rid of menus and buttons altogether. It will make an expert at the software fast as hell, after the months/years it will take to learn every shortcut. But that's *NOT* a GUI. And you're pretty much handicapping any software designed that way to forever remain obscure.
A good GUI lets even a newbie begin using software to do basic stuff right off the bat. You can keep the shortcuts for the pros. But a good GUI doesn't put up a roadblock for new users, it provides a path for new users to learn.
Second this question. If this is just duplicating information we already have, then it's nothing but a novelty project (and a job program for Skycorp).
If corporations were really people, we could send them to prison.
Corporate "personhood" is a laughable fiction, embraced only by our insane Supreme Court and business conservatives, Though, granted, it would be nice to think we could have lead Enron away in handcuffs the way we could have a real person.
No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation, an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as “the right to enslave.”
You can mod the AC down if you like, but it's true. NASA basically does just enough to justify its budget each year. But it's really more of an employment program and funnel for government leech contractors than anything resembling what it was during the Space Race. So they play along with whatever fictional promises the latest President makes, send up some probes, and piddle around on ISS. But they know damn well that they aren't ever going to put a man on Mars (probably not ever even the moon again). Shit, they can't even put a man in LEO right now.
So every President makes his obligatory "We're going to Mars!!" speech. And every year we not only don't get any closer to that goal, we get further away.
A man may one day set foot on Mars, but he won't be wearing a NASA patch on his spacesuit.
I agree. Normally I disagree with the Court on its obvious conservative bent, but I'm with them on this one. There is no excuse for factoring race into admissions for any university. This was true in 1950, and it's true today.
And, as a practical matter, it only fuels resentment and suspicion on all sides of the equation, and it puts a permanent taint on those who many who have earned their way in, but who are perceived as having only gotten in by virtue of their race or ethnicity.
IIRC, Google has so far only rolled out fiber in cities that already had "dark fiber" in place to begin with. Their deployment so far has been every bit as much a dog-and-pony show as AT&T and Verizon.
I actually would be very surprised if something were not found in the next few years that gave a similar high to alcohol but without the nasty hangover.
I agree such a chemical would be sweet. But from the general description usually given in the series, that's not what synthehol was. It basically removed the high altogether (or at least made it impossible to actually get intoxicated).
I think they're probably going the right way in producing their own content.
Not if it means cutting their existing content of shows and movies (that they didn't produce). I'm not paying $7-$9 a month just to watch Netflix series.
Synthehol was one of those dumbass things that can only exist in Star Trek fantasy land (like a communist society where everyone just works for the common good, there is no money, and no crewmember ever complains that the captain is the only one getting laid). Who the fuck likes the "taste" of ethanol?? We drink it specifically for its EFFECTS. Take those away and you had may as well just drink a regular fruit drink.
I don't mind paying and extra buck or two, if you can improve the content. I'm getting a little tired of movies dropping out of my queue, not to mention multiples seasons of TV shows (some of my TV shows have went from having every season available to just a few in the last year). I'm glad you got House and Cards and all, but what you really need to focus on is your meat-and-potatoes movie and TV show content.
Animal rights hippies have some fantasy that once cattle-farming and private horse ownership are outlawed, the cows and horsies will be set free to gallop on the plains (perhaps in slow motion to swelling music). In reality, they would just be either slaughtered or set free in the wild to mostly starve to death.
Basically, in this case, it likely means that he was fucking some underling. Consensual or not, that's a liability nightmare. At any point, said underling could become pissed and sue, saying she/he was pressured into banging the boss by the fact that he was her/his boss. So the company isn't thinking "harassment" in terms of a criminal act. They're likely thinking more in terms of civil liability.
Yeah, I know Whedon always creates some thin excuse in an attempt to give this ridiculousness the veneer of plausibility. But even his excuses are pretty weak. I doubt there is anything you can "do to the brain" of someone who's 5'1" and 100 lbs. to give them the punching and kicking strength of Ivan Drago mixed with Superman. It's just takes me out of the story.
I can suspend my disbelief for some stuff, but when something is ostensibly set in the real world, I expect to it be somewhat believable. It's like the scene in Die Hard 3, when Bruce Willis and Samuel Jackson fall off a bridge and drop about 50-ft. onto a solid metal barge deck--without injury. That was the moment I realized that the Die Hard franchise had finally gone too far. It crossed the line from EXTREMELY unlikely to flat-out fucking impossible.
It also doesn't help that the beautiful ass-kicking waif is a recurring Whedon character in almost everything he does, leading to the disturbing conclusion that this is some sort of weird fetish thing for him. Or maybe he's just too lazy to write real strong females, and falls back on the easy out of just taking the standard bimbo and giving her superpowers.
Yeah, and if SCOTUS rules against it they can use their many SCOTUS investigators to make sure the administration is complying, and the legendary SCOTUS army to stop them if they're not.
Acting and lighting are what usually really give the no-budget indies away these days, not the FX. The acting, in particular, in most of these homemade movies is fucking godawful. Some things you just have to spend real money on. You can pirate a copy of After Effects, but you can't pirate a real actor.
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My local government doesn't have that option. My state actually outlawed municipal ownership of ISP's. So did a lot of other states.
Good old lobbyists, always thinking several steps ahead.
Sure, you can just force the user to do everything with keyboard shortcuts, and just get rid of menus and buttons altogether. It will make an expert at the software fast as hell, after the months/years it will take to learn every shortcut. But that's *NOT* a GUI. And you're pretty much handicapping any software designed that way to forever remain obscure.
A good GUI lets even a newbie begin using software to do basic stuff right off the bat. You can keep the shortcuts for the pros. But a good GUI doesn't put up a roadblock for new users, it provides a path for new users to learn.
IIRC, only the knockoffs had stickers. The real Rubik's Cube had the colors painted on.
Second this question. If this is just duplicating information we already have, then it's nothing but a novelty project (and a job program for Skycorp).
If corporations were really people, we could send them to prison.
Corporate "personhood" is a laughable fiction, embraced only by our insane Supreme Court and business conservatives, Though, granted, it would be nice to think we could have lead Enron away in handcuffs the way we could have a real person.
Sorry, I flunked Weed Philosophy 101.
No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation, an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as “the right to enslave.”
So, jails and prisons are out, then?
It's not an innocent employment move. It's retroactive bribery.
I would call this "ghetto glass." You have to spend real $ to move up to full glasshole.
You can mod the AC down if you like, but it's true. NASA basically does just enough to justify its budget each year. But it's really more of an employment program and funnel for government leech contractors than anything resembling what it was during the Space Race. So they play along with whatever fictional promises the latest President makes, send up some probes, and piddle around on ISS. But they know damn well that they aren't ever going to put a man on Mars (probably not ever even the moon again). Shit, they can't even put a man in LEO right now.
So every President makes his obligatory "We're going to Mars!!" speech. And every year we not only don't get any closer to that goal, we get further away.
A man may one day set foot on Mars, but he won't be wearing a NASA patch on his spacesuit.
I agree. Normally I disagree with the Court on its obvious conservative bent, but I'm with them on this one. There is no excuse for factoring race into admissions for any university. This was true in 1950, and it's true today.
And, as a practical matter, it only fuels resentment and suspicion on all sides of the equation, and it puts a permanent taint on those who many who have earned their way in, but who are perceived as having only gotten in by virtue of their race or ethnicity.
Sure, if you're an Australian Cattle Rancher crossing the route from Perth to Adelaide, maybe you care about having range.
That's the Lord Humungus' road. If you're going to take it, range will be the least of your worries.
IIRC, Google has so far only rolled out fiber in cities that already had "dark fiber" in place to begin with. Their deployment so far has been every bit as much a dog-and-pony show as AT&T and Verizon.
I actually would be very surprised if something were not found in the next few years that gave a similar high to alcohol but without the nasty hangover.
I agree such a chemical would be sweet. But from the general description usually given in the series, that's not what synthehol was. It basically removed the high altogether (or at least made it impossible to actually get intoxicated).
I think they're probably going the right way in producing their own content.
Not if it means cutting their existing content of shows and movies (that they didn't produce). I'm not paying $7-$9 a month just to watch Netflix series.
You mean you don't like Generic Superhero Movie 2?? I thought it was even better than the original!!
No one is leaving Netflix over a fucking $2 price hike.
Synthehol was one of those dumbass things that can only exist in Star Trek fantasy land (like a communist society where everyone just works for the common good, there is no money, and no crewmember ever complains that the captain is the only one getting laid). Who the fuck likes the "taste" of ethanol?? We drink it specifically for its EFFECTS. Take those away and you had may as well just drink a regular fruit drink.
I don't mind paying and extra buck or two, if you can improve the content. I'm getting a little tired of movies dropping out of my queue, not to mention multiples seasons of TV shows (some of my TV shows have went from having every season available to just a few in the last year). I'm glad you got House and Cards and all, but what you really need to focus on is your meat-and-potatoes movie and TV show content.
I knew a guy in Capitan who taught his pig to bark at strangers.
Animal rights hippies have some fantasy that once cattle-farming and private horse ownership are outlawed, the cows and horsies will be set free to gallop on the plains (perhaps in slow motion to swelling music). In reality, they would just be either slaughtered or set free in the wild to mostly starve to death.
Basically, in this case, it likely means that he was fucking some underling. Consensual or not, that's a liability nightmare. At any point, said underling could become pissed and sue, saying she/he was pressured into banging the boss by the fact that he was her/his boss. So the company isn't thinking "harassment" in terms of a criminal act. They're likely thinking more in terms of civil liability.
Yeah, I know Whedon always creates some thin excuse in an attempt to give this ridiculousness the veneer of plausibility. But even his excuses are pretty weak. I doubt there is anything you can "do to the brain" of someone who's 5'1" and 100 lbs. to give them the punching and kicking strength of Ivan Drago mixed with Superman. It's just takes me out of the story.
I can suspend my disbelief for some stuff, but when something is ostensibly set in the real world, I expect to it be somewhat believable. It's like the scene in Die Hard 3, when Bruce Willis and Samuel Jackson fall off a bridge and drop about 50-ft. onto a solid metal barge deck--without injury. That was the moment I realized that the Die Hard franchise had finally gone too far. It crossed the line from EXTREMELY unlikely to flat-out fucking impossible.
It also doesn't help that the beautiful ass-kicking waif is a recurring Whedon character in almost everything he does, leading to the disturbing conclusion that this is some sort of weird fetish thing for him. Or maybe he's just too lazy to write real strong females, and falls back on the easy out of just taking the standard bimbo and giving her superpowers.
Yeah, and if SCOTUS rules against it they can use their many SCOTUS investigators to make sure the administration is complying, and the legendary SCOTUS army to stop them if they're not.
Acting and lighting are what usually really give the no-budget indies away these days, not the FX. The acting, in particular, in most of these homemade movies is fucking godawful. Some things you just have to spend real money on. You can pirate a copy of After Effects, but you can't pirate a real actor.