...or in with locking blades, again depending on the model. The Swisstool is a widespread knife/tool with a locking blade that would be illegal to carry.
Or you could just, you know, let people pass through the metal detectors.
You know, how all airports used to do, and smaller ones STILL do?
Smaller ones? Heathrow does the simple metal detector routine and they let you keep your shoes on. Not a small airport by my definition.
Yes, Heathrow in London/UK - the paranoid place with omnipresent CCTV that outlawed carrying a swiss army knife in public and where it's illegal to sell razor blades to minors.
I am no expert on machine learning, but isn't this whole approach flawed to begin with because we don't have enough terrorists? To verify your algorithms, you'd need sufficiently large training, validation and test sets, and I highly doubt that there are enough terrorists to build those sets.
What is it that makes everyone think that airplanes must become flying fortresses instead of just being as secure/dangerous as the rest of our lives already is? I can visit any government building, including courts and parliaments with less security theatre than I can board a plane. Nobody does a background check on you before you can walk in front of the white house. Nobody screens your luggage when you board a train, enter a subway station or stand in line at the museum.
The idea that there is something so special about airports and airplanes that nobody must be allowed to bring a container with more than 100ml of liquid in them is ridiculous.
Oh, 9/11 you say? Reinforced cockpit doors, handguns for pilots. Done.
Frankly, I think that plain text is a terrible format for source code. It unites content and presentation instead of separating them. I'd much more prefer to use a system similar to HTML/CSS where one file dictates the actual code, and the other part how I want to look at it. This way, I can have a custom CSS that uses tabs and places opening curly brackets on a new line, and my coworker can have a CSS that uses spaces and puts the curly brackets at the end of a line.
Source code formats could furthermore be in a hierarchical XML structure, making loops child nodes of functions which are child nodes of class nodes. This would save all the guesswork and black magic that currently goes into syntax highlighting and code folding.
No more will my SVN logs and diffs be messed up by a supid text editor insisting on changing all line feeds. No longer will there be any discussions about code formatting guidelines.
This is 2010, why are we sill saving code in dumb text files like in 1960?
1. Alan Dix, Janet Finlay, Gregory D. Abowd, and Russell Beale: Human-Computer Interaction 2. Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant: Designing The User Interface 3. Donald A. Norman, The Design Of Everyday Things 4. Jenny Preece, Yvonne Rogers, and Helen Sharp: Interaction Design 5. Jef Raskin, The Humane Interface 6. Terry Winograd (ed.): Bringing Design to Software 7. Brenda Laurel (ed.): The Art of Human-Computer Interaction 8. Apple Computer: The Apple Software Design Guidelines
I still wonder who or what that mythical power-user is, because I don't think I ever met one in person. The skript kiddie that spends 6 hours per day hunting themes and posting screen shots to forums? Some of the most knowledgeable and experienced developers I know barely change anything in their computer's configuration, even keeping the default OS X desktop image.
"So here's the solution: Figure out how to change the sensory data you want -- the electromagnetic fields, the ultrasound, the infrared -- into something that the human brain is already wired to accept, like touch or sight.'"
Converting electromagnetic fields to sight? We have that already, it's called a TV!
From what I was told, a passport is still valid even when the RFID chip is unreadable (as long as the rest of the passport is OK, of course). Maybe we should simply microwave our new passports for 10 seconds.
Giving the software out at zero charge and asking money for service or selling the software and giving free tech support for customers is the same to me - I don't quite see why certain authorities *cough*FSF*cough* call one of them "Free" and the other evil.
It's like vi: Once you learnt how to use it, you're convinced that it's better than anything else. Or you give up two years before you reach that point.
In the opposite direction, Zygote, Sixus 1 and e Frontier have released "open source" 3d figures under the name of "project: human", which is more or less competition for DAZ' core business.
These business models may work fine for large companies that sell consulting services (IBM comes to mind), but I haven't seen any example of how this would a apply to a company in the 5-30 employee range whose focus is producing software.
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Depends on the jurisdiction. In Germany, for example, a EULA is only valid if it was presented to the user before she bought a license.
...or in with locking blades, again depending on the model. The Swisstool is a widespread knife/tool with a locking blade that would be illegal to carry.
Swiss Army Knives come with blades > 3 inches, depending on the model.
Or you could just, you know, let people pass through the metal detectors.
You know, how all airports used to do, and smaller ones STILL do?
Smaller ones? Heathrow does the simple metal detector routine and they let you keep your shoes on. Not a small airport by my definition.
Yes, Heathrow in London/UK - the paranoid place with omnipresent CCTV that outlawed carrying a swiss army knife in public and where it's illegal to sell razor blades to minors.
Most scary thing about air travel? The food.
*drumroll*
I am no expert on machine learning, but isn't this whole approach flawed to begin with because we don't have enough terrorists? To verify your algorithms, you'd need sufficiently large training, validation and test sets, and I highly doubt that there are enough terrorists to build those sets.
What is it that makes everyone think that airplanes must become flying fortresses instead of just being as secure/dangerous as the rest of our lives already is? I can visit any government building, including courts and parliaments with less security theatre than I can board a plane. Nobody does a background check on you before you can walk in front of the white house. Nobody screens your luggage when you board a train, enter a subway station or stand in line at the museum.
The idea that there is something so special about airports and airplanes that nobody must be allowed to bring a container with more than 100ml of liquid in them is ridiculous.
Oh, 9/11 you say? Reinforced cockpit doors, handguns for pilots. Done.
Structured text formats with standard parsers and writer like XML are arguably smarter than than a dumb .c file.
Frankly, I think that plain text is a terrible format for source code. It unites content and presentation instead of separating them. I'd much more prefer to use a system similar to HTML/CSS where one file dictates the actual code, and the other part how I want to look at it. This way, I can have a custom CSS that uses tabs and places opening curly brackets on a new line, and my coworker can have a CSS that uses spaces and puts the curly brackets at the end of a line.
Source code formats could furthermore be in a hierarchical XML structure, making loops child nodes of functions which are child nodes of class nodes. This would save all the guesswork and black magic that currently goes into syntax highlighting and code folding.
No more will my SVN logs and diffs be messed up by a supid text editor insisting on changing all line feeds. No longer will there be any discussions about code formatting guidelines.
This is 2010, why are we sill saving code in dumb text files like in 1960?
Here's a list my former professor compiled:
1. Alan Dix, Janet Finlay, Gregory D. Abowd, and Russell Beale: Human-Computer Interaction
2. Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant: Designing The User Interface
3. Donald A. Norman, The Design Of Everyday Things
4. Jenny Preece, Yvonne Rogers, and Helen Sharp: Interaction Design
5. Jef Raskin, The Humane Interface
6. Terry Winograd (ed.): Bringing Design to Software
7. Brenda Laurel (ed.): The Art of Human-Computer Interaction
8. Apple Computer: The Apple Software Design Guidelines
http://media.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/HCIBooks
Keep in mind that testing your UI on real users is very important. Just because you think it's a good UI doesn't make it a good UI.
I still wonder who or what that mythical power-user is, because I don't think I ever met one in person. The skript kiddie that spends 6 hours per day hunting themes and posting screen shots to forums? Some of the most knowledgeable and experienced developers I know barely change anything in their computer's configuration, even keeping the default OS X desktop image.
"So here's the solution: Figure out how to change the sensory data you want -- the electromagnetic fields, the ultrasound, the infrared -- into something that the human brain is already wired to accept, like touch or sight.'"
Converting electromagnetic fields to sight? We have that already, it's called a TV!
I also tell him that iTunes would lose every cent of our business if someone started selling unDRMed mp3s for the same (or lower price).
It's called eMusic.
From what I was told, a passport is still valid even when the RFID chip is unreadable (as long as the rest of the passport is OK, of course). Maybe we should simply microwave our new passports for 10 seconds.
Studios often need large development teams--usually 40 or more people--to meet their tight deadlines.
And Napoleon Dynamite was shot by 3 guys?
http://www.emusic.com/ has a pretty sweet deal on non-DRM mp3s as well, using a subscription model. They have a focus on minor labels.
So it's about being cheap, hence free as in beer and not speech? I don't want to pay anything but still profit from your work?
Blender is free as in speech, but the language is ancient suomi.
Giving the software out at zero charge and asking money for service or selling the software and giving free tech support for customers is the same to me - I don't quite see why certain authorities *cough*FSF*cough* call one of them "Free" and the other evil.
It's like vi:
Once you learnt how to use it, you're convinced that it's better than anything else. Or you give up two years before you reach that point.
In the opposite direction, Zygote, Sixus 1 and e Frontier have released "open source" 3d figures under the name of "project: human", which is more or less competition for DAZ' core business.
Project human figures can be found here:
female
male
and here:
http://www.project-human.com/
Feel free to have a flamewar about whether or not the license is GPL compatible...
These business models may work fine for large companies that sell consulting services (IBM comes to mind), but I haven't seen any example of how this would a apply to a company in the 5-30 employee range whose focus is producing software.
Finder is Carbon, so this should be proof enough that Carbon is supported.
So you want to impress me with a fanless computer? Hah! My C=64 doesn't even need heat sinks. That's what I call progress!
The true reason? :)
Power comsumption! Burning iBooks just drain the battery too fast