Re:When users attack... Themselves
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I think I read or saw in a comic a similar phenomenon. This old woman's dog, who was tied up outside, would bark every time her phone rang. (I don't know for sure it was an old woman, but we'll assume so for the purposes of this story) Anyhow, it turned out that the dog was tied by a metal chain to a metal pipe, which also happened to be the ground of the telephone circuit. So everytime the phone rang, the dog would get a nasty little shock and of course would start barking like crazy...
Re:you know there WAS a windows 97
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Wasn't Windows 97 what Windows 98 was supposed to be, had it been released on schedule?
Technically, the menubar is the the UI element at the top of the screenshot with all the drop-down menus, and the other UI elements you are referring to are toolbars. So there is only a single menubar, but there is a ton of UI cruft as well.
Admittedly, that screenshot is an example of many bad UI practices...
The really interesting thing about your scenario is that the increased risk of getting in an accident while talking on a cell phone is comparable to the increased risk of getting in an accident while driving with a blood alcohol level above the legal limit. See this study published in the New England Journal of Medicine for details.
I took it as a serious lesson. Before, I had "kept the talking/driving to a minimum." Now I won't EVER talk while I drive. Do cell phones make people stupid? No, but it's most certainly a distraction, "hands-free" or not, and those little details that slip one's preoccupied mind are often the most important ones.
Amsterdam Avenue and 93rd Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a lazy summer midday. Young woman in belly shirt, standing at the southwest corner, steps off sidewalk to cross against the light. A massive truck, speeding, turns the corner, just narrowly averting squishing her like a bug. Young woman doesn't flinch or even seem to notice; she's yapping on her cell phone like it was the most important conversation in the world.
There is a study that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine (N Engl J Med 1997 Feb 13;336(7):453-8) which pretty convincingly links cell phone usage while driving with an fourfold increase in the risk of getting into a car accident. This increase in risk is comparable to that of driving with a blood alcohol level above the legal limit. The researchers also found that the increased rick does not change significantly depending on whether or not the cell phone being used is a hand-free unit, so they believe that the distraction of talking on a cell phone, instead of worrying about keeping your car between the lines or from hitting the car/person/inanimate object directly in front of you, is responsible for the increase in risk. The fact that many people navigate their own bodies about as well as if they were drunk when talking on their cell phone also supports this argument.
I was on a train recently when the cellphone in my pocket started vibrating ("is that a cell phone in your pocket...") an alert to me. Anyways, as I was pulling it to read the display (which ended up being a voicemail indication) I noticed the man in the opposing seat wagging his head back and forth in utter disgust, apparently, that I was using a cellphone. Other times I've spoken to my wife as I approached the station to see if she's waiting, and again I've noticed the moral superiors wagging their heads at the use of a cellphone. Note that I am a _very_ quiet cell phone talker (I long ago realized that the compression technology in modern cell phones make whispering functionally equal to yelling, and hence the latter is just a sign of a low intelligence ignorant brute), and me lightly talking to my wife is absolutely eclipsed by the sounds of shuffing newspapers, people clearing their throats, and just general conversations going on throughout the train.
I am okay with cell phone users who understand proper cell phone ettiquete, as you seem to. I save my headwagging for the morons who forget to turn their cell phones off during class or a meeting or a movie or at church. I've heard someone's cell phone ring at its highest volume setting in the middle of Sunday mass at St. Peter's Basilica!
The iBook isn't available with the Mobility Radeon 7500 (comparable to a GF4 Go), it comes with the Mobility Radeon, which is comparable to a GF2 Go. The Mobility Radeon 7500 does come with the Powerbook, but those start at $2500.
I'm typing this on a Sony VAIO laptop with a Radeon 7500 which was ~$1700 at Fry's Electronics.
So, if I create something that resembles a CD, but really just uses the CD format to carry a harmful digital payload to damage your system, I'm just an artist protecting my rights.
Don't blame the artists, it's the intellectual property "owners" who are to blame...
Actually, CPU houses have, AFAIK, always written compilers optimized for their chips, because a) they have a vested interest in the performance of their chips compared to competitors chips, b) a lot of CPU performance depends on the compiler and optimizing it for the chip, and c) if you're not the industry standard (like Intel currently is), then if you don't write a compiler for your chip, no one will, and then no one will use your chip. It's much more difficult to optimize a chip for a compiler, and the performance gains are less, than doing it the other way around.
Also, chip vendor compilers aren't necessarily for people to use, but also to show Microsoft or Watcom or Metrowerks or the GCC team how they can write compilers to take advantage of the chip's architecture.
I thought that one of the key features of Mozilla was "Chrome" which would allow a web site to modify the look and feel of the browser to fit the web site.
The point of Chrome is to allow the user to modify the look&feel of the browser to suit his/her/its own tastes...
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I think I read or saw in a comic a similar phenomenon. This old woman's dog, who was tied up outside, would bark every time her phone rang. (I don't know for sure it was an old woman, but we'll assume so for the purposes of this story) Anyhow, it turned out that the dog was tied by a metal chain to a metal pipe, which also happened to be the ground of the telephone circuit. So everytime the phone rang, the dog would get a nasty little shock and of course would start barking like crazy...
Wasn't Windows 97 what Windows 98 was supposed to be, had it been released on schedule?
- Try to not split infinitives.
- No fragments.
- When dangling, you should avoid participle phrases.
- A preposition is not acceptable to end a sentence with.
I think I saw a poster with these, and more, tongue-in-cheek grammatical rules, but I don't remember them all...You drive a RX-7?
Usually the Service Packs are also available on CD, but I think you have to pay for the media and for shipping.
What do MP3 artifacts sound like? I imagine I would notice if I knew what to listen for, but since I don't...
Technically, the menubar is the the UI element at the top of the screenshot with all the drop-down menus, and the other UI elements you are referring to are toolbars. So there is only a single menubar, but there is a ton of UI cruft as well.
Admittedly, that screenshot is an example of many bad UI practices...
The really interesting thing about your scenario is that the increased risk of getting in an accident while talking on a cell phone is comparable to the increased risk of getting in an accident while driving with a blood alcohol level above the legal limit. See this study published in the New England Journal of Medicine for details.
Yes it is. :-)
s/Gravitational pull/Force/g and he's got it right. F = ma and all that...
So don't buy Dell... :-p
The iBook isn't available with the Mobility Radeon 7500 (comparable to a GF4 Go), it comes with the Mobility Radeon, which is comparable to a GF2 Go. The Mobility Radeon 7500 does come with the Powerbook, but those start at $2500.
I'm typing this on a Sony VAIO laptop with a Radeon 7500 which was ~$1700 at Fry's Electronics.
...Slashdot hacks Yale Daily News to death. :-p
They're here
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That buys you 6 more orders of magnitude...good enough for government work!
Actually, CPU houses have, AFAIK, always written compilers optimized for their chips, because a) they have a vested interest in the performance of their chips compared to competitors chips, b) a lot of CPU performance depends on the compiler and optimizing it for the chip, and c) if you're not the industry standard (like Intel currently is), then if you don't write a compiler for your chip, no one will, and then no one will use your chip. It's much more difficult to optimize a chip for a compiler, and the performance gains are less, than doing it the other way around.
Also, chip vendor compilers aren't necessarily for people to use, but also to show Microsoft or Watcom or Metrowerks or the GCC team how they can write compilers to take advantage of the chip's architecture.