If they would just add the.pdf booklets... I guess at least Apple realized that this is an issue, but true to form, they had to invent a new locked-in proprietary format even though a perfectly adequate solution already exists.
You can get pdf booklets with some iTunes purchases. I have pdf booklets with a few of my iTunes albums. As this article states,
The iTunes Store offers a "digital booklet" with the purchase of many complete albums. The booklet provides a PDF version of the paper booklet insert you would receive if you bought the album as a CD.... Most digital booklets from iTunes are available in PDF format.... Double-clicking the booklet will activate your default PDF reader, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader on a PC or Preview on a Mac, and open the file.... You will then be able to view the contents of the booklet on your computer and even print it if desired.
Can I make a request? If someone down-votes a post, I'd like the down-voter's user id to be added to a list of down-voters for that post. Then if you move your mouse over the post's score (ex: "Score:0"), I'd like the list of that post's down-voters to appear in a small pop-up window.
Hopefully listing the down-voters for a post would discourage people from down-voting it because they don't agree with it (vs. because the down-voter thought the post was useless or harmful).
Ha! That reminds me of the Johnny Carson skit, where he plays Pres. Reagan:
(to Reagan) Mr. President, Hu's on the phone. Reagan: Well, now, Jim, I don't know. Who's on the phone? Baker: That is correct. Reagan: What's correct? Baker: No, he's your Secretary of the Interior. Reagan: Now Jim, let's just start all over here, very quietly. Just tell me, Jim, who is on the phone? Baker: Hu is on the phone.
No, what you get is design firms convincing management that this is the right thing to do, and how happy they'll feel, and how empowered and collaborative and cross-project-discipline-y their workplace will be, and management eventually swallows the kool-aid and starts believing it.
Either that, or some managers in some companies want their buildings to be beautiful, without regard to the effect on the employees.
Management's goal should not be to have beautiful buildings. Their goal should be to make great products. Having established that goal, management should set up the building in a way that helps achieve that goal. If people are more productive and less distracted with individual offices and solid walls, then so be it.
You can be both intelligent and tactful. General Norman Schwarzkopf ("Stormin' Normin") had an IQ of 170. According to Wikipedia, "A hard-driving military commander with a strong temper, Schwarzkopf was considered an exceptional leader by biographers and was noted for his abilities as a military diplomat and in dealing with the press."
As for willingness to follow someone whose IQ was way higher than mine - I'd rather have my leader be super intelligent and experienced, especially if my life depended on it. An intelligent and experienced general would say, "Plan A looks good, but in fact, it would be a disaster. We'll do Plan B instead."
US Ambassador to Panama John Feeley stated on December 27, 2017 that he wanted to resign. MSNBC put out a tweet that incorrectly implied that Feeley had resigned because of Trump's s*hole comment. They later removed the incorrect tweet, and put out a correct one.
The police found Barriss fast, when they tried hard to find him. kansas.com says,
He had been held at the 77th Street Precinct Jail in South Los Angeles following his arrest Friday afternoon – less than 24 hours after the call was made.
I try not to buy anything made in China, even if it costs more to buy things made elsewhere.
The sad reality is that globalisation has made this really difficult to do. Even if it doesn't say "made in China" on the box, the odds are that at least some of the component parts come from there.
You're right about most electronics being assembled in China. And good point about where the components were made.
Raspberry Pis are "made in a Sony factory in Pencoed, Wales." And some computers, like the Mac Pro, are assembled in the US.
There are also some non-computer items assembled in the US:
- Speed Queen clothes washers and dryers.
- Some Amana dryers.
- Austin Air air filters.
- Some brands of cars.
- Not many clothes are made in the US. But a lot are made in countries whose governments are not repressive. I don't mind buying clothes made in those countries.
Tim Cook didn't want to help the FBI find possible accomplices to Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik. But Apple will help the Chinese government have "more aggressive government involvement online to combat terrorism and criminals".
If there were enough profit for Apple, I wonder if Cook would help the Chinese government track down peaceful protesters like Liu Xiaobo. I hope not. RIP, Liu Xiaobo. 1955-2017.
Proof that no one at apple reads their own forums.
Apple should read them. Lots of bugs and workarounds are discussed there. Apple should hire people to read the forums, figure out the steps to duplicate the problems mentioned in the forums, and submit bug reports that include those steps.
I've found that the best way to get a bug resolved was to call their help desk, and tell that person about it.
Businesses should always be prepared for a system failure or power outage. I was in a local shop recently when the power failed. It took them less than a minute to get a box of paper based "kerchunkers" from the manager's office and put one at each register. Sales lost: $0.
Last summer on a hot day, I was in a Target store when the power failed. Backup lights went on immediately. People who looked like managers went quickly from one checkout station to another, doing something. Everything at the checkout stations worked except the conveyer belts; you had to move the stuff towards the checker by hand.
When I drove away, the signal lights in the area weren't working, so the power loss wasn't the store's fault.
When the managers were going from one checkout station to the next, I don't know if they were enabling an override or what. But whatever they were doing, it looked like they knew what to do, and that they had practiced getting the checkout stations back online; they were prepared.
1) Add $50K per year, per worker, to the employer's cost of hiring an H-1B. That money would go into a national "Train America" fund.
2) Use the "Train America" fund money for two reasons:
a) Train American citizens in skills that are in short supply in the US, and
b) Pay the salaries of these trained people for the first year of their employment (internship, apprenticeship, entry-level employee, whatever).
The extra $50K charge of per year, per worker would discourage employers from hiring H-1Bs. And the training and subsidized salaries from the Train America funds would help build a pool of Americans who had training and experience in skills that are in short supply in the US.
Isaac Asimov said that the biggest threats to humanity were 1) overpopulation and 2) humanity's habit of splitting itself into groups, and deciding that you are or are not a part of their group. I agree with him.
I did a Google on 5 asteroids "hubble space telescope" 2017 "frontier fields"
then picked the link News - HubbleSite: Images hubblesite.org/images/news - Cached Compass Image for Asteroids in Hubble Frontier Fields. Nov 2, 2017. Compass Image for Asteroids in Hubble Frontier Fields...
That web page has three images dated Nov 2, 2017, whose captions include the word "Asteroids". I'm guessing those images show the newly-discovered asteroids.
Instead of "I believe this person or set of data", what is your experience?
I live in the southeast part of the San Francisco Bay area. Last summer (a few months ago), it got up to 108 degrees one day. It's never been that hot since I moved here in 1989. Also last summer we had more hot days that usual.
I don't know if the temperatures have been gradually increasing here, but last summer was a record breaker for me.
However, the increasing ability of machines to read minds is getting a little scary. Some day we'll be able to read someone's emotions without hooking the person up to a machine - just point a reader at their head.
Government employee: What do you think of our dear leader?
The person's brain shows the emotion of revulsion.
Government employee: Off to a re-education camp, for you and your family!
Of course having good parents makes a huge difference. But just talking about money - how would I spend $1.7 billion on education?
1) Buy the rights to highly-regarded educational books, and release the books freely over the internet.
2) Set up some private schools that teach as they do in Finland. This imitating Finland would include hiring outstanding teachers, and paying them well.
3) Open private schools for students who want to learn, putting them in areas with bad schools. The students in the good schools don't have to be geniuses, but they do have to work hard and behave well. Make these schools low-tuition or free, for students whose parents can't afford the cost. I hate reading articles like this one, about students who were physically attacked by other students for the "crime" of studying hard.
4) For students who are fighting peer pressure to not study and to behave badly - if they don't have an alternate good physical school to attend, then set up a free, high-quality online school for them to attend.
My wife teaches them... These kids want everything crippled in the same way that they have been crippled by their parents
That's something that I've been wondering. When students protest speeches that they don't like, claiming to feel threatened, do they really feel threatened? I thought they just used that as an excuse to shut down speakers, whose politics they don't like.
1) Write code that solves a problem. In your job, you must have thought a few times, "Someone should write code to that does such-and-such." Ok, for your project, write that code. The interviewer will be more interested in your code, if they want to use it themselves.
2) Make sure that your code is secure. Don't tell the interviewer, "This code assumes that the input data has previously been checked." No - your code should check the input, and reject any bad input.
3) Before the interview, make sure that you're very familiar with your code. If the interviewer asks you why you did such-and-such, you should be able to tell them why. If you're told to change the logic or messages or whatever, make sure that you know how to change it.
Apparently Slashdot removed the second of those two articles, since the second one was pretty much a duplicate of the first. But Google cached it, and the cached article is here.
So now you know where to look, to read the "discovered" article that the summary references.
Rather than clear positivity, language used on Twitter "reflected that a very negatively viewed character [bin Laden] met a very negative end," according to the researcher's website.
I don't know the politics of people who use Twitter. But the pictures that I saw showed Americans happy that bin Laden been killed.
One of the things that made Apple great was Steve Jobs' ability to design something for style and ease of use that was practical for the technology, and ram the vision through intact despite objections.
This story tells how Steve Jobs told the iDVD team to make a simple UI:
"He [Steve] picks up a marker and goes over to the whiteboard. He draws a rectangle. 'Here's the new application,' he says. 'It's got one window. You drag your video into the window. Then you click the button that says BURN....' "
Regarding ramming "the vision through intact despite objections", the first story in the same web page says the team that designed the original iPod said they couldn't make the iPod any smaller. Jobs then dropped the iPod prototype into an aquarium.
After it touched bottom, bubbles floated to the top.
"Those are air bubbles," he snapped. "That means there's space in there. Make it smaller."
Have a "basic mode" for beginners, and also an "expert mode". In the expert mode, you see buttons and menus that let you fine tune the app's behavior. (The expert mode's buttons and menus would confuse a beginner, and clutter up the beginner's screen.)
Also include a button that resets all preferences to their defaults.
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If they would just add the .pdf booklets ... I guess at least Apple realized that this is an issue, but true to form, they had to invent a new locked-in proprietary format even though a perfectly adequate solution already exists.
You can get pdf booklets with some iTunes purchases. I have pdf booklets with a few of my iTunes albums. As this article states,
The iTunes Store offers a "digital booklet" with the purchase of many complete albums. The booklet provides a PDF version of the paper booklet insert you would receive if you bought the album as a CD. ... ... Double-clicking the booklet will activate your default PDF reader, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader on a PC or Preview on a Mac, and open the file. ... You will then be able to view the contents of the booklet on your computer and even print it if desired.
Most digital booklets from iTunes are available in PDF format.
Whipslash and Slashdot, welcome back.
Can I make a request? If someone down-votes a post, I'd like the down-voter's user id to be added to a list of down-voters for that post. Then if you move your mouse over the post's score (ex: "Score:0"), I'd like the list of that post's down-voters to appear in a small pop-up window.
Hopefully listing the down-voters for a post would discourage people from down-voting it because they don't agree with it (vs. because the down-voter thought the post was useless or harmful).
Ha! That reminds me of the Johnny Carson skit, where he plays Pres. Reagan:
(to Reagan) Mr. President, Hu's on the phone.
Reagan: Well, now, Jim, I don't know. Who's on the phone?
Baker: That is correct.
Reagan: What's correct?
Baker: No, he's your Secretary of the Interior.
Reagan: Now Jim, let's just start all over here, very quietly. Just tell me,
Jim, who is on the phone?
Baker: Hu is on the phone.
No, what you get is design firms convincing management that this is the right thing to do, and how happy they'll feel, and how empowered and collaborative and cross-project-discipline-y their workplace will be, and management eventually swallows the kool-aid and starts believing it.
Either that, or some managers in some companies want their buildings to be beautiful, without regard to the effect on the employees.
Management's goal should not be to have beautiful buildings. Their goal should be to make great products. Having established that goal, management should set up the building in a way that helps achieve that goal. If people are more productive and less distracted with individual offices and solid walls, then so be it.
You can be both intelligent and tactful. General Norman Schwarzkopf ("Stormin' Normin") had an IQ of 170. According to Wikipedia, "A hard-driving military commander with a strong temper, Schwarzkopf was considered an exceptional leader by biographers and was noted for his abilities as a military diplomat and in dealing with the press."
As for willingness to follow someone whose IQ was way higher than mine - I'd rather have my leader be super intelligent and experienced, especially if my life depended on it. An intelligent and experienced general would say, "Plan A looks good, but in fact, it would be a disaster. We'll do Plan B instead."
US Ambassador to Panama John Feeley stated on December 27, 2017 that he wanted to resign. MSNBC put out a tweet that incorrectly implied that Feeley had resigned because of Trump's s*hole comment. They later removed the incorrect tweet, and put out a correct one.
The police found Barriss fast, when they tried hard to find him. kansas.com says,
He had been held at the 77th Street Precinct Jail in South Los Angeles following his arrest Friday afternoon – less than 24 hours after the call was made.
I try not to buy anything made in China, even if it costs more to buy things made elsewhere.
The sad reality is that globalisation has made this really difficult to do. Even if it doesn't say "made in China" on the box, the odds are that at least some of the component parts come from there.
You're right about most electronics being assembled in China. And good point about where the components were made.
Raspberry Pis are "made in a Sony factory in Pencoed, Wales." And some computers, like the Mac Pro, are assembled in the US.
There are also some non-computer items assembled in the US:
- Speed Queen clothes washers and dryers.
- Some Amana dryers.
- Austin Air air filters.
- Some brands of cars.
- Not many clothes are made in the US. But a lot are made in countries whose governments are not repressive. I don't mind buying clothes made in those countries.
- Also see http://www.usalovelist.com/ame....
I try not to buy anything made in China, even if it costs more to buy things made elsewhere.
May I ask why? Serious question
I don't want to help China's economy. I don't want to support the economy of countries that have repressive governments.
I try not to buy anything made in China, even if it costs more to buy things made elsewhere.
Tim Cook didn't want to help the FBI find possible accomplices to Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik. But Apple will help the Chinese government have "more aggressive government involvement online to combat terrorism and criminals".
If there were enough profit for Apple, I wonder if Cook would help the Chinese government track down peaceful protesters like Liu Xiaobo. I hope not. RIP, Liu Xiaobo. 1955-2017.
Proof that no one at apple reads their own forums.
Apple should read them. Lots of bugs and workarounds are discussed there. Apple should hire people to read the forums, figure out the steps to duplicate the problems mentioned in the forums, and submit bug reports that include those steps.
I've found that the best way to get a bug resolved was to call their help desk, and tell that person about it.
Businesses should always be prepared for a system failure or power outage. I was in a local shop recently when the power failed. It took them less than a minute to get a box of paper based "kerchunkers" from the manager's office and put one at each register. Sales lost: $0.
Last summer on a hot day, I was in a Target store when the power failed. Backup lights went on immediately. People who looked like managers went quickly from one checkout station to another, doing something. Everything at the checkout stations worked except the conveyer belts; you had to move the stuff towards the checker by hand.
When I drove away, the signal lights in the area weren't working, so the power loss wasn't the store's fault.
When the managers were going from one checkout station to the next, I don't know if they were enabling an override or what. But whatever they were doing, it looked like they knew what to do, and that they had practiced getting the checkout stations back online; they were prepared.
The federal government should do two things:
1) Add $50K per year, per worker, to the employer's cost of hiring an H-1B. That money would go into a national "Train America" fund.
2) Use the "Train America" fund money for two reasons:
a) Train American citizens in skills that are in short supply in the US, and
b) Pay the salaries of these trained people for the first year of their employment (internship, apprenticeship, entry-level employee, whatever).
The extra $50K charge of per year, per worker would discourage employers from hiring H-1Bs. And the training and subsidized salaries from the Train America funds would help build a pool of Americans who had training and experience in skills that are in short supply in the US.
Isaac Asimov said that the biggest threats to humanity were 1) overpopulation and 2) humanity's habit of splitting itself into groups, and deciding that you are or are not a part of their group. I agree with him.
Here are an Asimov interview and speech on overpopulation and human unity.
The story sounds neat and all, but I can't actually see the purported images.
This, this and this might be the images.
I did a Google on
5 asteroids "hubble space telescope" 2017 "frontier fields"
then picked the link ...
News - HubbleSite: Images
hubblesite.org/images/news - Cached
Compass Image for Asteroids in Hubble Frontier Fields. Nov 2, 2017.
Compass Image for Asteroids in Hubble Frontier Fields
That web page has three images dated Nov 2, 2017, whose captions include the word "Asteroids". I'm guessing those images show the newly-discovered asteroids.
Instead of "I believe this person or set of data", what is your experience?
I live in the southeast part of the San Francisco Bay area. Last summer (a few months ago), it got up to 108 degrees one day. It's never been that hot since I moved here in 1989. Also last summer we had more hot days that usual.
I don't know if the temperatures have been gradually increasing here, but last summer was a record breaker for me.
What's everyone else's experience?
An abstract of the nature.com article is here.
I hope this algorithm will help prevent suicides.
However, the increasing ability of machines to read minds is getting a little scary. Some day we'll be able to read someone's emotions without hooking the person up to a machine - just point a reader at their head.
Government employee: What do you think of our dear leader?
The person's brain shows the emotion of revulsion.
Government employee: Off to a re-education camp, for you and your family!
Of course having good parents makes a huge difference. But just talking about money - how would I spend $1.7 billion on education?
1) Buy the rights to highly-regarded educational books, and release the books freely over the internet.
2) Set up some private schools that teach as they do in Finland. This imitating Finland would include hiring outstanding teachers, and paying them well.
3) Open private schools for students who want to learn, putting them in areas with bad schools. The students in the good schools don't have to be geniuses, but they do have to work hard and behave well. Make these schools low-tuition or free, for students whose parents can't afford the cost. I hate reading articles like this one, about students who were physically attacked by other students for the "crime" of studying hard.
4) For students who are fighting peer pressure to not study and to behave badly - if they don't have an alternate good physical school to attend, then set up a free, high-quality online school for them to attend.
My wife teaches them ... These kids want everything crippled in the same way that they have been crippled by their parents
That's something that I've been wondering. When students protest speeches that they don't like, claiming to feel threatened, do they really feel threatened? I thought they just used that as an excuse to shut down speakers, whose politics they don't like.
1) Write code that solves a problem. In your job, you must have thought a few times, "Someone should write code to that does such-and-such." Ok, for your project, write that code. The interviewer will be more interested in your code, if they want to use it themselves.
2) Make sure that your code is secure. Don't tell the interviewer, "This code assumes that the input data has previously been checked." No - your code should check the input, and reject any bad input.
3) Before the interview, make sure that you're very familiar with your code. If the interviewer asks you why you did such-and-such, you should be able to tell them why. If you're told to change the logic or messages or whatever, make sure that you know how to change it.
The summary for this article contains a dead link labeled "discovered".
Yesterday, Slashdot had these two articles:
First at 11:21 AM, this first article.
Then at 12:39 PM, this second article.
Apparently Slashdot removed the second of those two articles, since the second one was pretty much a duplicate of the first. But Google cached it, and the cached article is here.
So now you know where to look, to read the "discovered" article that the summary references.
Rather than clear positivity, language used on Twitter "reflected that a very negatively viewed character [bin Laden] met a very negative end," according to the researcher's website.
I don't know the politics of people who use Twitter. But the pictures that I saw showed Americans happy that bin Laden been killed.
One of the things that made Apple great was Steve Jobs' ability to design something for style and ease of use that was practical for the technology, and ram the vision through intact despite objections.
This story tells how Steve Jobs told the iDVD team to make a simple UI:
"He [Steve] picks up a marker and goes over to the whiteboard. He draws a rectangle. 'Here's the new application,' he says. 'It's got one window. You drag your video into the window. Then you click the button that says BURN. ...' "
Regarding ramming "the vision through intact despite objections", the first story in the same web page says the team that designed the original iPod said they couldn't make the iPod any smaller. Jobs then dropped the iPod prototype into an aquarium.
After it touched bottom, bubbles floated to the top.
"Those are air bubbles," he snapped. "That means there's space in there. Make it smaller."
Have a "basic mode" for beginners, and also an "expert mode". In the expert mode, you see buttons and menus that let you fine tune the app's behavior. (The expert mode's buttons and menus would confuse a beginner, and clutter up the beginner's screen.)
Also include a button that resets all preferences to their defaults.