OSX was created with an API where you had to program each keyboard shortcut. Macs introduced the mouse to the general population so they made everything rely on the mouse. Windows got created later when keyboard shortcuts was automatically built into the API because they didn't require or expect a user to buy a mouse. I'm not sure of the development of X, other than they weren't as good at designing UI in their spare time.
HAHAHAHAHAHAAA! Funniest thing I've heard all day. Will anyone who thinks our government is working for us speak up?
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Thought so...
So what are you doing to change that? The government is working for us in a way, but you need to speak up. The squeaky wheel gets the grease and the smaller wheels need to squeak louder to get heard.
Benihana once hired talented chefs. I remember ages ago, their chefs juggled food with their spatulas and really put on a show with how quickly they cut the food. The food was decent, but you went there to see the chefs perform. Now, they hire just any plain old chef. They just bang their spatulas together and fake it. Entirely obvious to my kids at 6 years old, who asked me why they were just banging their spatulas together. It's no longer worth the price of admission.
I guess it's expected since there aren't that many chefs that can do that, and the number of Benihana's branches have grown.
If you want a good disposable razor and happen to travel to Asia, or even Waikiki, grab all the single blade Bic razors you can find. The disposable safety razor blades for sale everywhere else I've been in the US are unnaturally dull when brand new.
I was recently out of the country and forgot to pack some razors and bought some single blade Bic Razors that gave me a better shave than the double or triple blade I've been using. On a previous trip, a friend even grabbed all the extra complimentary hotel no name single blade razors from all our rooms. I hadn't realized then exactly what he had found out. The Bics were extremely sharp, and after nearly a week of use, it finally felt like what I normally got with the expensive double or triple blades. I even tried some single blade Bics in the US as comparison and found them to be tremendously dull in comparison.
Are we just getting all the shoddiest made materials shipped into this country? Next time I travel, I'm stocking up on the better razors. There's nothing like a good sharp razor for a really comfortable close shave.
Many beginning CS students today actually fall under the category of normal end user. These days, a lot more people come to college to learn a trade, not to advance their knowledge. I've seen many come into CS with absolutely no background in computers, other than running a web browser, word processor, or game. Too many fall into this category now so they've started offering even more remedial computer classes that include taking apart a computer to see what's inside, a first for many of these CS students. They've added an even more remedial "programming class" that involves drag & drop programming. I guess they don't teach "computer literacy" in elementary school anymore.
science and physics course work you can copy much easier by yourself as it's "absolute truth" from the course material(that's been running in any given university for couple of decades with the same problems and assigments). it's much harder to prove that you copied 1+1=2 than to prove that you copied sentences directly from someone else.
You've probably never graded any assignments. For something as simple as 1+1=2, what you've stated is true. For complex math, science and engineering equations that require multiple steps, there are enough variations in arriving at a correct answer that you can easily spot the lazy cheaters. People indent differently. People start different parts of the problem first. In a class of 30, I easily spotted the obvious duplicates, even when I saw the 2nd student's paper hours later. Except for the obvious duplicate, no two papers in that class of 30 had the same organizational structure to arriving at the final correct answer. There were a few that had similar structures, but still varied enough to be different. Of course a single duplicate isn't necessarily a sign of cheating, but if you notice someone duplicating several problems and several assignments, it's obvious they're just copying. The answers may be absolute truths, but the process at arriving at the answers differs quite a bit from person to person.
http://www.cement.org/homes/brief09.asp According to the cement site, materials cost seem to not be that much more. Labor cost is almost double for normal concrete construction, but the pre-fab modular homes are not that much more. It seems quite feasable to shell out a bit more just so the home doesn't blow away each year. Why won't they do it in the hurricane and tornado prone areas?
When you add in insulation costs, it seems closer in price: http://www.cement.org/homes/ch_sb_solidinvest.asp Since it's a cement site that did their own study, I doubt that it's that cheap. Even if it was 25% more, it's still a reasonable investment in hurricane & tornado zones. Something seems amiss in the mainland US mindset. It's probably why there's so many low quality Made in China junk in Walmart. I'd rather get something higher, quality and not have it break frequently.
Sure wood is definitely cheaper short term, but look at it long term. How often do you have to replace them each year. If the insurance companies were smart, they'd analyze the cost of concrete for those areas and the amount they'd pay long term. They already know the short term costs of constantly replacing homes during a hurricane. Maybe they have analyzed it and just make so much more short term money with the wooden structures and allowing the devastation and loss of life, that they wish to continue.
On the island of Guam, they get both 8.0+ earthquakes and up to Category 5 Typhoons(Hurricanes for non-US mainland pacific). After SuperTyphoon Pamela hit in 1976, homes were replaced with concrete. By the early 1980s they were pretty much all concrete. New homes there are all concrete and each new generation of new construction has better and easier to operate earthquake shutters. The buildings survive typhoons and earthquakes with minor, mostly cosmetic damage these days. No evacuations are required anymore. Everyone just rides out the typhoon in their homes. Granted, both wood and concrete have to be shipped to the island, but the heavier cement & gravel for concrete would still be a quite a bit more expensive to ship.
To make a concrete house look new, you just need to paint it and fix up the landscaping. I really don't see people tear down their house just to make it look new. For the internal walls, you can still use wood and reconfigure them quite easily. Only the exterior and load bearing interior structure has to be concrete. It's probably better, since some DIYer goof won't accidentally remove a load bearing wall and bring his own house down. The excuse for building with wood is just that, an excuse. There's lots of solidly built buildings that don't look old.
Many people don't want to waste time with 120 single image per page slideshows. A list to point to each slideshow can easily work as well, or I'd rather see it on a single page that I can quickly scroll up or down. Why must I turn on javascript to view a png or jpg. I prefer that my javascript be kept off.
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I had both OS/2 & Windows 95 on my NCR 486dx2 PC that I upgraded to a Pentium 60. I did like the features of OS/2, but it crashed & froze much more for me on that system for some reason, probably because of that P60 CPU socket upgrade. I also worked for a year at IBM and OS/2 ran solidly and much better there. They did a lot more than Windows 95 without the daily reboots or weekly reboots of NT4. The GUI was actually quite fast and responsive on those IBM Pentium systems. It wasn't until Windows 2000, 5 years later, that Microsoft started having that same stability.
Most of that stuff was invented independently in Europe, so even if China never existed, we'd still have those items.
Plus you gave credit for some things that were actually invented by the Arabs or the Romans/Greeks. Like the compass.
From the sketches it appears the buses use a rail on one side to help guide them, this is probably the biggest failure point. All it will take is someone crashing into the rail to cause a delay for the bus until it can be repaired. Seems like they would be better off just building an elevated road for buses only. My first though was that the buses would just use rails like a train that were set to be flush with the road so cars could easily change lanes. Only problem there would be debris de-railing them. The best solution would be to let everyone telecommute and invest in laying fiber for greater bandwidth.;)
It's not using the guard rail. They're on tracks. It's basically light rail that uses existing roadways instead of requiring a widening of the roadway. They use signal lights inside to indicate turns and radar to sense when you're too close to the supports and make an announcement to the driver. At turns, the signal lights would stop all the cars and only the train would go, just as with any other light rail system. Debris that might derail this train would derail any other light rail train as well. It's much cheaper than building a subway and they're going to commence building 186 km of track by years end.
Problem is, if you're out driving on the autobahn, all this achieves is wasting fuel to haul around a whole lot of pointless & heavy batteries.
It doesn't matter in the least since most people who have the money to buy these aren't going to drive it faster than everyone else. They're driving it to show everyone that they have the money to buy it. Most of the time I see someone driving these types of cars, they're driving slightly slower than the flow of traffic, showing it off to people passing them. I rarely see people racing these things down the freeways. You're more likely to see Hondas or Acuras racing each other.
It has to start somewhere. Someone has to dream and try to make their dreams come true for things to even change. If no one ever bothers, then what's the point?
By preschools? My kids outgrew those long before getting into school.
Computers are a tool, an expensive one at that. Unfortunately, schools and many parents don't understand that computers don't do the teaching. Money is better spent on other school supplies. Parents and teachers must teach their children. Throwing costly computers at education won't fix it. They're mostly a distraction. There should be no computers until at least 5th or 6th grade. Then, they should teach them how to type before anything else. There's no need to waste money on computers for the little kids until someone actually comes up with educational software that is even useful and remotely fun.
Kids just want to play games on computers. You'll have to keep an eye on them so they don't switch over to games while they're supposed to be learning or researching. It's actually hard to pull the kids off computers.
You could always run noscript for firefox or run opera with javascript turned off. It's not necessary to keep javascript on by default for every page that you visit.
How did this industry ever get away with claiming pork to be white meat (.i.e healthy non-fat food.). I thought they got sued long ago since the ads had mostly disappeared. I hadn't realized they've continued promoting that drivel.
What is with all this anti-government propaganda about being a state slave. I think many people don't understand government. People used to be controlled by a monarch that oppressed the masses and took everything from the serfs. We created a government ruled by the people for the people. The government is slowly being taken over by big business and there's all this propaganda against our government that we have a voice in. We should be trying to take it back from the ruling class who are subverting it and creating a new oligarchy.
We still need government to protect individual rights and provide public services and we the people need to put our government back on track. Libertarians want a fantasy world, very limited to their own personal self interest use the ideals and the label of libertarianism to justify their own selfishness. They're just as brainwashed as the rest of the uncaring masses, except they promote this anti-government, pro individual, propaganda the serves the ruling corporations well. We, the real people, not the fictitious people(corporations) should be in charge of government. This anti-government brainwashing that keeps getting pushed doesn't actually serve the people. It just helps the ruling class corporations gain more power. It's as if libertarians secretly want everyone to be serfs.
I'm willing to pay for that; why aren't they willing to offer the bandwidth to do it? It'll be expensive, but there's bound to be some people for whom price doesn't matter, and it's not like a real unlimited plan is going to take up extra space on their shelves. Why not offer a real unlimited plan, at its actual price?
They won't be able to gouge^H^H^H^H^H make as much money that way.
You either don't have kids or your kids must not have friends. The seat belt laws limit the number of passengers per vehicle, so when you need to pick up their 6 friends, you're 3 seats short in your Prius. Are you going to drive that 2nd car to transport them? The minivan is probably better than an SUV for that since it gets slightly better mileage.
Just 25 years ago, you could cram them all in a 4 door Sedan since they could squeeze in or sit on each other's laps. I remember riding in a station wagon with 12 other kids. It was cramped but not against the law back then. If anyone sees that these days, they'd call the police and have that parent arrested for child endangerment, all in the name of safety. Now the most you could fit is 8 passengers in a minivan. A full sized gas guzzling van could hold more passengers.
They're only just bringing back some station wagons with 3rd row seats for 3 extra passengers. Otherwise, you'd have to get a minivan to transport the kids and their friends.
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OSX was created with an API where you had to program each keyboard shortcut. Macs introduced the mouse to the general population so they made everything rely on the mouse. Windows got created later when keyboard shortcuts was automatically built into the API because they didn't require or expect a user to buy a mouse. I'm not sure of the development of X, other than they weren't as good at designing UI in their spare time.
That wasn't smart of him. If you had let him go and claimed you didn't receive it, UPS would have to reimburse the sender.
So what are you doing to change that? The government is working for us in a way, but you need to speak up. The squeaky wheel gets the grease and the smaller wheels need to squeak louder to get heard.
That will be one cool collector item for those invitees.
Benihana once hired talented chefs. I remember ages ago, their chefs juggled food with their spatulas and really put on a show with how quickly they cut the food. The food was decent, but you went there to see the chefs perform. Now, they hire just any plain old chef. They just bang their spatulas together and fake it. Entirely obvious to my kids at 6 years old, who asked me why they were just banging their spatulas together. It's no longer worth the price of admission.
I guess it's expected since there aren't that many chefs that can do that, and the number of Benihana's branches have grown.
If you want a good disposable razor and happen to travel to Asia, or even Waikiki, grab all the single blade Bic razors you can find. The disposable safety razor blades for sale everywhere else I've been in the US are unnaturally dull when brand new.
I was recently out of the country and forgot to pack some razors and bought some single blade Bic Razors that gave me a better shave than the double or triple blade I've been using. On a previous trip, a friend even grabbed all the extra complimentary hotel no name single blade razors from all our rooms. I hadn't realized then exactly what he had found out. The Bics were extremely sharp, and after nearly a week of use, it finally felt like what I normally got with the expensive double or triple blades. I even tried some single blade Bics in the US as comparison and found them to be tremendously dull in comparison.
Are we just getting all the shoddiest made materials shipped into this country? Next time I travel, I'm stocking up on the better razors. There's nothing like a good sharp razor for a really comfortable close shave.
It's mostly the student's personal systems.
Many beginning CS students today actually fall under the category of normal end user. These days, a lot more people come to college to learn a trade, not to advance their knowledge. I've seen many come into CS with absolutely no background in computers, other than running a web browser, word processor, or game. Too many fall into this category now so they've started offering even more remedial computer classes that include taking apart a computer to see what's inside, a first for many of these CS students. They've added an even more remedial "programming class" that involves drag & drop programming. I guess they don't teach "computer literacy" in elementary school anymore.
Beakman's World was a bit wackier, but just as educational as Bill Nye.
You've probably never graded any assignments. For something as simple as 1+1=2, what you've stated is true. For complex math, science and engineering equations that require multiple steps, there are enough variations in arriving at a correct answer that you can easily spot the lazy cheaters. People indent differently. People start different parts of the problem first. In a class of 30, I easily spotted the obvious duplicates, even when I saw the 2nd student's paper hours later. Except for the obvious duplicate, no two papers in that class of 30 had the same organizational structure to arriving at the final correct answer. There were a few that had similar structures, but still varied enough to be different. Of course a single duplicate isn't necessarily a sign of cheating, but if you notice someone duplicating several problems and several assignments, it's obvious they're just copying. The answers may be absolute truths, but the process at arriving at the answers differs quite a bit from person to person.
http://www.cement.org/homes/brief09.asp
According to the cement site, materials cost seem to not be that much more. Labor cost is almost double for normal concrete construction, but the pre-fab modular homes are not that much more. It seems quite feasable to shell out a bit more just so the home doesn't blow away each year. Why won't they do it in the hurricane and tornado prone areas?
When you add in insulation costs, it seems closer in price: http://www.cement.org/homes/ch_sb_solidinvest.asp
Since it's a cement site that did their own study, I doubt that it's that cheap. Even if it was 25% more, it's still a reasonable investment in hurricane & tornado zones. Something seems amiss in the mainland US mindset. It's probably why there's so many low quality Made in China junk in Walmart. I'd rather get something higher, quality and not have it break frequently.
Sure wood is definitely cheaper short term, but look at it long term. How often do you have to replace them each year. If the insurance companies were smart, they'd analyze the cost of concrete for those areas and the amount they'd pay long term. They already know the short term costs of constantly replacing homes during a hurricane. Maybe they have analyzed it and just make so much more short term money with the wooden structures and allowing the devastation and loss of life, that they wish to continue.
On the island of Guam, they get both 8.0+ earthquakes and up to Category 5 Typhoons(Hurricanes for non-US mainland pacific). After SuperTyphoon Pamela hit in 1976, homes were replaced with concrete. By the early 1980s they were pretty much all concrete. New homes there are all concrete and each new generation of new construction has better and easier to operate earthquake shutters. The buildings survive typhoons and earthquakes with minor, mostly cosmetic damage these days. No evacuations are required anymore. Everyone just rides out the typhoon in their homes. Granted, both wood and concrete have to be shipped to the island, but the heavier cement & gravel for concrete would still be a quite a bit more expensive to ship.
To make a concrete house look new, you just need to paint it and fix up the landscaping. I really don't see people tear down their house just to make it look new. For the internal walls, you can still use wood and reconfigure them quite easily. Only the exterior and load bearing interior structure has to be concrete. It's probably better, since some DIYer goof won't accidentally remove a load bearing wall and bring his own house down. The excuse for building with wood is just that, an excuse. There's lots of solidly built buildings that don't look old.
Many people don't want to waste time with 120 single image per page slideshows. A list to point to each slideshow can easily work as well, or I'd rather see it on a single page that I can quickly scroll up or down. Why must I turn on javascript to view a png or jpg. I prefer that my javascript be kept off.
I had both OS/2 & Windows 95 on my NCR 486dx2 PC that I upgraded to a Pentium 60. I did like the features of OS/2, but it crashed & froze much more for me on that system for some reason, probably because of that P60 CPU socket upgrade. I also worked for a year at IBM and OS/2 ran solidly and much better there. They did a lot more than Windows 95 without the daily reboots or weekly reboots of NT4. The GUI was actually quite fast and responsive on those IBM Pentium systems. It wasn't until Windows 2000, 5 years later, that Microsoft started having that same stability.
What whitewashed history book did you read? Even http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass says that the compass was invented in China.
It's not using the guard rail. They're on tracks. It's basically light rail that uses existing roadways instead of requiring a widening of the roadway. They use signal lights inside to indicate turns and radar to sense when you're too close to the supports and make an announcement to the driver. At turns, the signal lights would stop all the cars and only the train would go, just as with any other light rail system. Debris that might derail this train would derail any other light rail train as well. It's much cheaper than building a subway and they're going to commence building 186 km of track by years end.
It doesn't matter in the least since most people who have the money to buy these aren't going to drive it faster than everyone else. They're driving it to show everyone that they have the money to buy it. Most of the time I see someone driving these types of cars, they're driving slightly slower than the flow of traffic, showing it off to people passing them. I rarely see people racing these things down the freeways. You're more likely to see Hondas or Acuras racing each other.
It has to start somewhere. Someone has to dream and try to make their dreams come true for things to even change. If no one ever bothers, then what's the point?
By preschools? My kids outgrew those long before getting into school.
Computers are a tool, an expensive one at that. Unfortunately, schools and many parents don't understand that computers don't do the teaching. Money is better spent on other school supplies. Parents and teachers must teach their children. Throwing costly computers at education won't fix it. They're mostly a distraction. There should be no computers until at least 5th or 6th grade. Then, they should teach them how to type before anything else. There's no need to waste money on computers for the little kids until someone actually comes up with educational software that is even useful and remotely fun.
Kids just want to play games on computers. You'll have to keep an eye on them so they don't switch over to games while they're supposed to be learning or researching. It's actually hard to pull the kids off computers.
It looks like a fancy flashlight, just as the light sabers looked like fancy flashlights.
You could always run noscript for firefox or run opera with javascript turned off. It's not necessary to keep javascript on by default for every page that you visit.
How did this industry ever get away with claiming pork to be white meat (.i.e healthy non-fat food.). I thought they got sued long ago since the ads had mostly disappeared. I hadn't realized they've continued promoting that drivel.
I'd expect they want to play number 4. If they yelled "fore", I might look out for that golf ball.
What is with all this anti-government propaganda about being a state slave. I think many people don't understand government. People used to be controlled by a monarch that oppressed the masses and took everything from the serfs. We created a government ruled by the people for the people. The government is slowly being taken over by big business and there's all this propaganda against our government that we have a voice in. We should be trying to take it back from the ruling class who are subverting it and creating a new oligarchy.
We still need government to protect individual rights and provide public services and we the people need to put our government back on track. Libertarians want a fantasy world, very limited to their own personal self interest use the ideals and the label of libertarianism to justify their own selfishness. They're just as brainwashed as the rest of the uncaring masses, except they promote this anti-government, pro individual, propaganda the serves the ruling corporations well. We, the real people, not the fictitious people(corporations) should be in charge of government. This anti-government brainwashing that keeps getting pushed doesn't actually serve the people. It just helps the ruling class corporations gain more power. It's as if libertarians secretly want everyone to be serfs.
They won't be able to gouge^H^H^H^H^H make as much money that way.
You either don't have kids or your kids must not have friends. The seat belt laws limit the number of passengers per vehicle, so when you need to pick up their 6 friends, you're 3 seats short in your Prius. Are you going to drive that 2nd car to transport them? The minivan is probably better than an SUV for that since it gets slightly better mileage.
Just 25 years ago, you could cram them all in a 4 door Sedan since they could squeeze in or sit on each other's laps. I remember riding in a station wagon with 12 other kids. It was cramped but not against the law back then. If anyone sees that these days, they'd call the police and have that parent arrested for child endangerment, all in the name of safety. Now the most you could fit is 8 passengers in a minivan. A full sized gas guzzling van could hold more passengers.
They're only just bringing back some station wagons with 3rd row seats for 3 extra passengers. Otherwise, you'd have to get a minivan to transport the kids and their friends.