You know, currently Apple is famous for products which don't have a keyboard at all.
Ever since the Apple Extended Keyboard II, Apple has shown a passive-aggressive hate towards good keyboards. Yeah, I understood the Performa mentality, but even their highest end gear has come with cheap tiring keyboards for twenty years.
The touch interface is just the logical conclusion of that antipathy.
One of the things John Jay (US Supreme Court Justice) is known for is telling jurors that they are responsible for judging the law (the rules as handed down).
It may not be amiss, here, Gentlemen, to remind you of the good old rule, that on questions of fact, it is the province of the jury, on questions of law, it is the province of the court to decide. But it must be observed that by the same law, which recognizes this reasonable distribution of jurisdiction, you have nevertheless a right to take upon yourselves to judge of both, and to determine the law as well as the fact in controversy.
I suspect he'd be proud of the student for deciding that this particular school rule is unjust and standing up for herself.
Little Change in Global Drought in the past 60 Years [nature.com]
If only the current cold period hadn't locked up atmospheric water in three miles of ice on Antarctica....
Despite the scorched-earthers' Hell stories, warmer Earths are wetter Earths.
But, hey, that's on average and would most strongly benefit the poor equatorial regions - the monied interests in Europe might stand to lose quite a bit from from a change in the thermohaline circulation.
If Gaza wanted to deploy something militarily useful, a democratic, peaceful government would be far more effective than a missile defense that would blow up the moment it became militarily inconvenient for Israel.
With the state of the society over there, any government is going to attract the type of people who seek to make war. Their best option is to disband their government and engage in a non-violent revolution, the same way that worked in most of Eastern Europe.
What they stand no chance of doing is making any progress by fighting Israel on Israel's terms. I hold little hope for either side.
I guess JPEG should have been more careful, then. Was I the only one who read the readme that came with CSHOW.COM? Bob Berry was quite explicit. It's said that their in-house catch-phrase was "Choosy developers choose GIF".
Private corporate interests disguised as political parties?
Nope, the private corporate interests can't do this without a government.
Take government out of the equation - can private corporate interests do this without government? (ignore for now that corporations are government fictions; call it 'companies'). No.
Now take private corporate interests out of the equation: can government do this without corporations? Yes.
Government is the essential part of the equation. They may be spurred on by private corporate interests, but the power to do such stupid things lies entirely with the State.
Many more people will complain about offences to their Victorian sensibilities than will complain about removing cartoon nipples. So, these policies keep their administrative costs lower. If you want this to change, attack their cost assumptions. Complain about their intolerance. I'm not typically one to advocate for being a complainer, but if these companies are putting in systems based on complainers, then those are the rules as constructed. Worst case: the rules about complainers are decommissioned.
The main problem with that strategy is that tolerant people tend to not be complainers. You won't find a Million Moms against Intolerance marching on the Capitol. But as the saying goes, "only be intolerant of intolerance."
The other approach is to accept that these services will reflect the Xth percentile opinion and the only way to change that is to change the X position in society. I can't see kids raised on today's Internet being particularly offended by cartoon nipples when they're in their 50's.
My hope is that we can move to a society where posting a war photo of a blown up baby isn't more socially acceptable than posting a picture a baby being born.
that's the nintendo way. which device from them had a complicated board or cutting edge performance?
I know the hot GPU consoles are popular with the boys trying to bring on puberty, but from my vantage (grew up on 8-bit games and arcades, rarely play one now) the Nintendo model is to achieve the highest fun/$ ratio and to provide entertainment.
I've watched friends play some of the most successful FPS games, and frankly the game play is monotonous and boring. They sit intent with their thumbs flying and not much else going on, largely isolated. If they're communicating it's with mostly unknowns on a headset (yes there have been a few WoW marriages, I know). The "Level too easy? Make everything darker" design mocks the past generations' attention to level complexity. They hire big-name actors to attach videos to the game when the story lines make Sierra games look like Hamlet. I really don't get this, since a well-constructed game ought to have quite a market advantage.
Conversely, I've watched other friends play, say, Wi Bowling, and they were legitimately having a fun time. The game was kind of stupid, but it was an enabler of social interaction, not a substitute for it. This becomes a much richer experience because the game is just a focal point, not the entirety of the experience. Not entirely unlike a dart-board in tavern in that way.
I guess there's a market for both, and if you're trying to train a future drone operator then 360 might be a better platform, but given a choice, I'd much rather get my kids a Nintendo (right now they still think coolmath-games.com is the cat's pyjamas).
where profit means little, and the freedy people (Ferengi) are forbidden interlopers
Profit is just a price signal, it sends information. The problem with IP is that it gives governments an excuse to oppress the freedoms of the masses to reward the few.
Besides, Star Trek governments execute people who build robots. It's not all sunshine and roses there.
All it would take is a static warp bubble at the destination, which could then be relaxed under more controlled circumstances to recover the high-energy particles.
quoting from WP:
The origin of the technology is unknown; all races learned to make jumpgates by examining already-existing jumpgates. For example, humans got jumpgate technology by buying it from the Centauri. Some ships are large enough to contain a jumpgate device, enabling them to enter and exit hyperspace at will. Minbari warships have been known to exit hyperspace right next to enemy ships, destroying them in the backlash.
I doubt blame has anything to do with it. It cost them too much money/time to use OO. They're switching. It doesn't matter to them why OO costs more to use, just that it does.
I wonder how much cheaper it is for the city to send money to Redmond for licenses than it is to hire a German to fix the file format problem.
Or... does this city get "whatever you want to pay" pricing because it's an OpenOffice user?
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You know, currently Apple is famous for products which don't have a keyboard at all.
Ever since the Apple Extended Keyboard II, Apple has shown a passive-aggressive hate towards good keyboards. Yeah, I understood the Performa mentality, but even their highest end gear has come with cheap tiring keyboards for twenty years.
The touch interface is just the logical conclusion of that antipathy.
If I may translate: "you don't mess with our military industrial complex or we WILL HURT YOU."
if you misused it your boss would sit you down and tell you never to do it again
"If you left the vehicle in drive when you got out and it rolled down a hill, your boss would sit you down and tell you never to do it again."
OK, but shift-interlock on key-removal is still a good idea. Any system that can be designed to reduce errors without reducing productivity should be.
The only 64-bit browsers are Opera, IE and (up until now) FireFox.
$ rpm -q chromium
chromium-21.0.1180.89-1.fc17.x86_64
(thought I prefer Firefox except for Google Apps)
One of the things John Jay (US Supreme Court Justice) is known for is telling jurors that they are responsible for judging the law (the rules as handed down).
I suspect he'd be proud of the student for deciding that this particular school rule is unjust and standing up for herself.
Bands don't necessarily have any say in how their music is distributed if they want a record deal. Sad but true.
So ... why this story?
were selling 45s
Looks like they released a new one last year.
But we don't really take their protests at face value - most likely album sales have taken a downturn, so it's time to unleash the 'digital' machine.
As always, Opera did it first.
Oh, did Opera implement a feature in 2010 that Flashblocker for Firefox implemented in 2002? How innovative.
Simply because we use electrons instead of ink and paper doesn't mean we lose the protection of the 4th amendment.
No, it's simply because we tolerate an out-of-control fascist/socalist/totalitarian government.
People: "you may not do this."
Government: "we're doing it anyway."
People: "oh."
all those bugs will just love eating food crops and trees
Yes, it's unfortunate that points south of Canada cannot grow crops due to all the insects that live there.
Little Change in Global Drought in the past 60 Years [nature.com]
If only the current cold period hadn't locked up atmospheric water in three miles of ice on Antarctica....
Despite the scorched-earthers' Hell stories, warmer Earths are wetter Earths.
But, hey, that's on average and would most strongly benefit the poor equatorial regions - the monied interests in Europe might stand to lose quite a bit from from a change in the thermohaline circulation.
I suppose they'll be forced to finally support their app on HTTPS, like they should have done two years ago.
If Gaza wanted to deploy something militarily useful, a democratic, peaceful government would be far more effective than a missile defense that would blow up the moment it became militarily inconvenient for Israel.
With the state of the society over there, any government is going to attract the type of people who seek to make war. Their best option is to disband their government and engage in a non-violent revolution, the same way that worked in most of Eastern Europe.
What they stand no chance of doing is making any progress by fighting Israel on Israel's terms. I hold little hope for either side.
people were rounded up and jailed with out charges for years
Oh, that's old-school. Now their children are assassinated by drone-strike.
To keep us safe.
Unless a person is being framed, an innocent person has no reason to flee law enforcement because they are suspected of a crime.
False.
Pronounce it like "gift" but without the "t"
No, don't.
I guess JPEG should have been more careful, then. Was I the only one who read the readme that came with CSHOW.COM? Bob Berry was quite explicit. It's said that their in-house catch-phrase was "Choosy developers choose GIF".
Private corporate interests disguised as political parties?
Nope, the private corporate interests can't do this without a government.
Take government out of the equation - can private corporate interests do this without government? (ignore for now that corporations are government fictions; call it 'companies'). No.
Now take private corporate interests out of the equation: can government do this without corporations? Yes.
Government is the essential part of the equation. They may be spurred on by private corporate interests, but the power to do such stupid things lies entirely with the State.
Many more people will complain about offences to their Victorian sensibilities than will complain about removing cartoon nipples. So, these policies keep their administrative costs lower. If you want this to change, attack their cost assumptions. Complain about their intolerance. I'm not typically one to advocate for being a complainer, but if these companies are putting in systems based on complainers, then those are the rules as constructed. Worst case: the rules about complainers are decommissioned.
The main problem with that strategy is that tolerant people tend to not be complainers. You won't find a Million Moms against Intolerance marching on the Capitol. But as the saying goes, "only be intolerant of intolerance."
The other approach is to accept that these services will reflect the Xth percentile opinion and the only way to change that is to change the X position in society. I can't see kids raised on today's Internet being particularly offended by cartoon nipples when they're in their 50's.
My hope is that we can move to a society where posting a war photo of a blown up baby isn't more socially acceptable than posting a picture a baby being born.
that's the nintendo way. which device from them had a complicated board or cutting edge performance?
I know the hot GPU consoles are popular with the boys trying to bring on puberty, but from my vantage (grew up on 8-bit games and arcades, rarely play one now) the Nintendo model is to achieve the highest fun/$ ratio and to provide entertainment.
I've watched friends play some of the most successful FPS games, and frankly the game play is monotonous and boring. They sit intent with their thumbs flying and not much else going on, largely isolated. If they're communicating it's with mostly unknowns on a headset (yes there have been a few WoW marriages, I know). The "Level too easy? Make everything darker" design mocks the past generations' attention to level complexity. They hire big-name actors to attach videos to the game when the story lines make Sierra games look like Hamlet. I really don't get this, since a well-constructed game ought to have quite a market advantage.
Conversely, I've watched other friends play, say, Wi Bowling, and they were legitimately having a fun time. The game was kind of stupid, but it was an enabler of social interaction, not a substitute for it. This becomes a much richer experience because the game is just a focal point, not the entirety of the experience. Not entirely unlike a dart-board in tavern in that way.
I guess there's a market for both, and if you're trying to train a future drone operator then 360 might be a better platform, but given a choice, I'd much rather get my kids a Nintendo (right now they still think coolmath-games.com is the cat's pyjamas).
where profit means little, and the freedy people (Ferengi) are forbidden interlopers
Profit is just a price signal, it sends information. The problem with IP is that it gives governments an excuse to oppress the freedoms of the masses to reward the few.
Besides, Star Trek governments execute people who build robots. It's not all sunshine and roses there.
All it would take is a static warp bubble at the destination, which could then be relaxed under more controlled circumstances to recover the high-energy particles.
quoting from WP:
oh sure, the math works out if you assume it can exist, but that doesn't mean that it is physically possible
If it can't actually exist, then the math is lacking. Some day we'll get this figured out.
I doubt blame has anything to do with it. It cost them too much money/time to use OO. They're switching. It doesn't matter to them why OO costs more to use, just that it does.
I wonder how much cheaper it is for the city to send money to Redmond for licenses than it is to hire a German to fix the file format problem.
Or ... does this city get "whatever you want to pay" pricing because it's an OpenOffice user?
Fewer stamps = fewer letters = less cost.
hey, you used 'fewer' and 'less' correctly on Slashdot. They should make that one of the 'achievements' on here. ;)