Yes, because we all know UIs should be designed around the least frequent occurrence, not the most frequent. It's *absolutely critical* that if someone cannot figure out how to use the brakes or shift into neutral that they instead be familiar with the antiquated paradigm of removing a key from a lock to turn a switch.
Because operating systems can't yet do DPI scaling that works 100% perfectly on all applications. Windows 7 is much better at this than XP was, but there are still lots of rogue applications which won't behave themselves properly at anything but the standard DPI setting.
If you build it, they will come. Get the sh...stuff out there in the market and if it doesn't work, people will demand solutions. It's true with anything else, from hard drive size limits to 64-bit drivers. The stuff that doesn't add support will wither and die as it should.
To be fair, if vaccines caused autism, I would probably opt out of most vaccines, because most kids don't die of whooping cough or scarlet fever, but autism is forever.
Wow, talk about a fitting pseudonym, that's the most myopic thing I've read all day. The *reason* these diseases are rare is because most people are vaccinated and thus not susceptible, not because the root causes are gone. Most astronaut deaths also aren't from lack of oxygen or boiling blood in a vacuum, but I'm pretty sure they're going to continue to protect themselves from those things all the same.
Google didn't spend decades ignoring security, stability, quality, and performance all while strong-arming providers into using their product. They didn't start a "software alliance" that focuses almost exclusively on piracy of MS products and provides incentives for people frame their employers for fun and profit. Apple didn't file lawsuits against open source projects trying to give people viable options.
While MS is somewhat better behaved these days, and arguably focusing more on delivering a quality product than using questionable methods to achieve and maintain dominance, they still have a long and sordid history that doesn't just magically go away because they decided to start playing a bit nicer. Google has plenty of faults, but those who would compare it to MS in its heyday are either ignorant of the facts, or viewing history through rose colored glasses.
Monitors. To get something approaching the quality of the printed word, you need a pixel density of ~300ppi, which is 7680x4800 for a 30" screen. Current 30" monitors have a pixel density of ~100ppi, so we're not even at half that.
Also, there's the issue of real estate. It would be great to have monitors larger than 30", but without increasing pixel count, a 40" monitor at 2560x1600 would look like a 20" monitor at 640x400.
I am sure my children would thank me when we are no longer tied to fossil fuels.
Ha! I'm sure they'll be just as ungrateful and entitled as any other kids and find something to complain about. Doesn't mean it's the wrong thing to do though.
Well in all "honesty" apple's own webpage says "it doesn't get PC viruses". Technically, it doesn't; it gets Mac malware.
Technically Macs are Personal Computers, so yes, they get PC viruses (or malware). They may not be subject to *Windows* viruses (if they're not running Windows in a dual-boot or VM configuration), but Windows isn't a PC anyway, it's an OS.
I (and a few others) find parallel programming easy
Of course you do, which is why you know that not all tasks lend themselves to parallelization, and that even tasks which can be parallelized generally have a point after which the overhead adds more work than time saved. Parallel processing is a great tool to have, but that doesn't make it the right tool for every job.
AFAIK the Apple II did well in educational and early business markets, but the C64 was *the* home computer in the US.
My elementary schools both had C64s, with which we learned LOGO (2nd-4th grade) and, later, some BASIC (5th grade). The library of my high school had Apple ][s and IBM PCs that were intended and used mostly for writing papers, and the drafting and science classrooms had Macs that we never really used, but the teachers loved to fawn over them.
Fast forward 20 years, my kids' elementary school has iMacs which they've used to make funhouse mirror-style pictures in Photobooth, take online reading assessment tests, and finally, in the 5th grade, design some WYSIWYG HTML in Dreamweaver. With any luck, in another 20 years my grandkids' will be using their Mac-Zed's to draw 3D rainbows and unicorns that look like dogs. Sigh.
I accept that cocaine/crack laws disproportionately affect blacks, but that's not what people are protesting in the streets (though I would argue that maybe it should be).
It doesn't matter what I consider evidence to the contrary; it only matters (for the purpose of determining whether the police acted appropriately) what the law says. And for the record, I believe the police actually did arrest him (hence the booking videos), but the prosecutor declined to press charges.
Again, I'm not saying this law is great or not -- that's a separate argument -- just that there's no evidence that this case is either an isolated example of institutional racism OR part of a larger trend. Yes, those things surely exist in some contexts, such as you described, but that doesn't automatically mean that this event is related to racism, and the speculation of the GP does nothing to further that argument.
Since we're making broad judgments, it's because women are a more valuable resource than men. Men can and do procreate prolifically while women are physically limited to a set rate of reproduction. Women's burden is, in large part, to wade through a score of potential mates to find one worthy of their extremely taxing reproductive role, while men's burden is to stand out from the competition and try to mate with anyone they can find, if they can find anyone. You will seldom hear a woman complain that she can't find a date; only that she can't find a man (mate). And like most other mammalian species, men who are unsuccessful are ostracized and shunned from the social group and relegated to fighting for resources amongst themselves, including, perhaps especially, females. Men are compelled by evolution to secure a mate by any means necessary, because if they don't, another man will. Prison's main function is arguably to try to put an upper limit on the behavior men are willing to engage in to secure that mate, for the good of both the men who already have mates, but more importantly to preserve the valuable resource of women.
You can bet your sorry ass that if a black watch volunteer would have killed a white kid, he would have been in prison post-haste.
Can I? How many times has this happened? What's our sample size? I'd bet my sorry ass that people believe that's what would have happened, but I haven't seen anything to actually back that up.
the police didn't bother to do anything but to take the shooter at his word that it was self-defense.
Without evidence to the contrary, the police were legally prohibited from doing anything but taking the shooter at his word. How many times have they done differently in similar circumstances? Is there anything other than speculation to even suggest that the law is being applied differently for blacks than for other races? Not prove mind you, I'm not asking for proof, just some sort of data that even hints at it? How often have blacks claimed self defense under the same statute and been prosecuted in the absence of conflicting evidence?
I'm not trying to be insensitive, and I'm not saying this case wasn't racially motivated, but my sorry ass weighs facts more heavily than opinion.
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Not to mention we've had these things called "dictation machines" for over a century now.
Yes, because we all know UIs should be designed around the least frequent occurrence, not the most frequent. It's *absolutely critical* that if someone cannot figure out how to use the brakes or shift into neutral that they instead be familiar with the antiquated paradigm of removing a key from a lock to turn a switch.
Just turn the wheel all the way in one direction before you remove the keys, that way you'll only go in a nice, safe circle, like this: http://www.examiner.com/strange-news-in-national/elderly-south-florida-woman-run-over-by-her-own-car-1
From my experience of Kinect's voice recognition, it would go something like this:
You: XBOX EQUIP FEEBLE DAGGER! XBOX EQUIP FEEBLE DAGGER! EQUIP...
Friend: [Punch to the face.]
You: OW!!!
XBox: Are you sure you want to save?
My bad. I was thrown off by the name: Hanns-G HZ281HPB 27.5'' 3ms Full HD 1080P HDMI
WTF Hanns-G?
Isn't most of the noise from a properly maintained modern car from the tires anyway? I think this calls for some testing.
That's 1080 vertical. The parent was specifically asking about 1200 vertical.
Because operating systems can't yet do DPI scaling that works 100% perfectly on all applications. Windows 7 is much better at this than XP was, but there are still lots of rogue applications which won't behave themselves properly at anything but the standard DPI setting.
If you build it, they will come. Get the sh...stuff out there in the market and if it doesn't work, people will demand solutions. It's true with anything else, from hard drive size limits to 64-bit drivers. The stuff that doesn't add support will wither and die as it should.
Fair enough. I failed to read your post in its entirety, and I actually agree with your conclusion, but I still disagree with your hypothetical.
Well that argument should work well as long as people are not selfish or irrational.
What's that, imaginary voice in my ear? People are overwhelmingly selfish and irrational? Well shit.
To be fair, if vaccines caused autism, I would probably opt out of most vaccines, because most kids don't die of whooping cough or scarlet fever, but autism is forever.
Wow, talk about a fitting pseudonym, that's the most myopic thing I've read all day. The *reason* these diseases are rare is because most people are vaccinated and thus not susceptible, not because the root causes are gone. Most astronaut deaths also aren't from lack of oxygen or boiling blood in a vacuum, but I'm pretty sure they're going to continue to protect themselves from those things all the same.
No, mom has one 3.5-billionth of the pussy.
It's true. In Japan, even the ATMs wear surgical masks.
Malaysia car thieves steal finger
Google didn't spend decades ignoring security, stability, quality, and performance all while strong-arming providers into using their product. They didn't start a "software alliance" that focuses almost exclusively on piracy of MS products and provides incentives for people frame their employers for fun and profit. Apple didn't file lawsuits against open source projects trying to give people viable options.
While MS is somewhat better behaved these days, and arguably focusing more on delivering a quality product than using questionable methods to achieve and maintain dominance, they still have a long and sordid history that doesn't just magically go away because they decided to start playing a bit nicer. Google has plenty of faults, but those who would compare it to MS in its heyday are either ignorant of the facts, or viewing history through rose colored glasses.
If he pulls this off, expect tougher laws on data collection requirements for ISPs.
Monitors. To get something approaching the quality of the printed word, you need a pixel density of ~300ppi, which is 7680x4800 for a 30" screen. Current 30" monitors have a pixel density of ~100ppi, so we're not even at half that.
Also, there's the issue of real estate. It would be great to have monitors larger than 30", but without increasing pixel count, a 40" monitor at 2560x1600 would look like a 20" monitor at 640x400.
I am sure my children would thank me when we are no longer tied to fossil fuels.
Ha! I'm sure they'll be just as ungrateful and entitled as any other kids and find something to complain about. Doesn't mean it's the wrong thing to do though.
Who cares? We're awesome now!!!
Well in all "honesty" apple's own webpage says "it doesn't get PC viruses". Technically, it doesn't; it gets Mac malware.
Technically Macs are Personal Computers, so yes, they get PC viruses (or malware). They may not be subject to *Windows* viruses (if they're not running Windows in a dual-boot or VM configuration), but Windows isn't a PC anyway, it's an OS.
I (and a few others) find parallel programming easy
Of course you do, which is why you know that not all tasks lend themselves to parallelization, and that even tasks which can be parallelized generally have a point after which the overhead adds more work than time saved. Parallel processing is a great tool to have, but that doesn't make it the right tool for every job.
AFAIK the Apple II did well in educational and early business markets, but the C64 was *the* home computer in the US.
My elementary schools both had C64s, with which we learned LOGO (2nd-4th grade) and, later, some BASIC (5th grade). The library of my high school had Apple ][s and IBM PCs that were intended and used mostly for writing papers, and the drafting and science classrooms had Macs that we never really used, but the teachers loved to fawn over them.
Fast forward 20 years, my kids' elementary school has iMacs which they've used to make funhouse mirror-style pictures in Photobooth, take online reading assessment tests, and finally, in the 5th grade, design some WYSIWYG HTML in Dreamweaver. With any luck, in another 20 years my grandkids' will be using their Mac-Zed's to draw 3D rainbows and unicorns that look like dogs. Sigh.
I accept that cocaine/crack laws disproportionately affect blacks, but that's not what people are protesting in the streets (though I would argue that maybe it should be).
It doesn't matter what I consider evidence to the contrary; it only matters (for the purpose of determining whether the police acted appropriately) what the law says. And for the record, I believe the police actually did arrest him (hence the booking videos), but the prosecutor declined to press charges.
Again, I'm not saying this law is great or not -- that's a separate argument -- just that there's no evidence that this case is either an isolated example of institutional racism OR part of a larger trend. Yes, those things surely exist in some contexts, such as you described, but that doesn't automatically mean that this event is related to racism, and the speculation of the GP does nothing to further that argument.
Since we're making broad judgments, it's because women are a more valuable resource than men. Men can and do procreate prolifically while women are physically limited to a set rate of reproduction. Women's burden is, in large part, to wade through a score of potential mates to find one worthy of their extremely taxing reproductive role, while men's burden is to stand out from the competition and try to mate with anyone they can find, if they can find anyone. You will seldom hear a woman complain that she can't find a date; only that she can't find a man (mate). And like most other mammalian species, men who are unsuccessful are ostracized and shunned from the social group and relegated to fighting for resources amongst themselves, including, perhaps especially, females. Men are compelled by evolution to secure a mate by any means necessary, because if they don't, another man will. Prison's main function is arguably to try to put an upper limit on the behavior men are willing to engage in to secure that mate, for the good of both the men who already have mates, but more importantly to preserve the valuable resource of women.
You can bet your sorry ass that if a black watch volunteer would have killed a white kid, he would have been in prison post-haste.
Can I? How many times has this happened? What's our sample size? I'd bet my sorry ass that people believe that's what would have happened, but I haven't seen anything to actually back that up.
the police didn't bother to do anything but to take the shooter at his word that it was self-defense.
Without evidence to the contrary, the police were legally prohibited from doing anything but taking the shooter at his word. How many times have they done differently in similar circumstances? Is there anything other than speculation to even suggest that the law is being applied differently for blacks than for other races? Not prove mind you, I'm not asking for proof, just some sort of data that even hints at it? How often have blacks claimed self defense under the same statute and been prosecuted in the absence of conflicting evidence?
I'm not trying to be insensitive, and I'm not saying this case wasn't racially motivated, but my sorry ass weighs facts more heavily than opinion.