It would indeed be interesting to see a cost breakdown for a burger and find out why it sosts $7-10 these days. But I bet it's not because of a rise in workers' wages.
(For one thing, meat prices have been going up steadily in most/all parts of the world for the last three years or so. For another, real estate prices may have pumped up rent for fast-food joints. Add growing costs of road transport.)
As Slashdot's vocal libertarian contingent has taught us well, corporations are responsible solely for the financial interests of their shareholders. Microsoft is acting accordingly. Governments and NGOs have no business regulating Capitalism. If you don't like OOXML, don't use it. And greed is good. There. Any questions?
You are - everyone who has an employer is - already being paid less than what they "make", less than they are worth to the company. If you earn X a month, the company rakes in X+n from your effort alone.
So either your analogy doesn't apply, or if it does, the RIAAs of the world should be playing the same game and by the same rules everyone else is.
Great, so the US government is using untested software and untested hardware to shoot a big chunk of explosive toxic shit out of the sky over my head. I see absolutely no reason why this should fail.
Question.
Even though there is absolutely no reason this should fail, let's just, you know, theorize. In the unlikely case it doesn't quite go as planned... what is the US government going to use to shoot the wayward missile out of the sky before *it* lands in somebody's backyard?
Telcos didn't need no stinkin' warrant to welcome illegal wiretapping equipment, and you expect a printer manufacturer to ask for a warrant? Seriously?
"I'd like to know why this is such a big deal to individual people first off. "
For the very same reasons it was a big deal (to some) and not such a big deal (to others) that the communist government here in Poland, up until late 1980s, had every single typewriter registered, with a typed page on file. I imagine the same went on in other countries of the Soviet bloc.
You said yourself the dot patterns were not being used to fight crime, I guess that's your answer right there.
I guess the rule of the thumb is simple. When the government mandates such a thing, it is not for your good.
Ladies and gentlement, we present to you... the Iran Effect!
We break our backs cutting six freaking undersea cables, and I swear they're HUGE like this, in as many days, and all you can think is/. effect. Harrupmph.
(Upside: at least nowe we have a bearing on who the authors of TrueCrupt are.)
Nobody needs to splice an undersea cable if they can go to AT&T and every other telco company and get what they want by idnetifying thnselves as the government and kindly asking, on dry land. For the US, the telco immunity bill seems to be a done deal: http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/01/dems-capitulate-on-fisa/
The article has this to say on the cause of the damage:
"According to reports, the internet blackout, which has left 75 million people with only limited access, was caused by a ship that tried to moor off the coast of Egypt in bad weather on Wednesday."
According to whose reports? Published where? What was the name of the ship? How was it discovered that it caused all the damage? Is the same ship also responsible for the third cable cut, which did not occur in the Mediterranean, and later than Wednesday?
This what you refer to as "facts". I sure hope you intended sarcasm.
I don't think so. The method is what the church attacks, but it's only to have a tangible handle on the issue. The church's problem, I think, is that the closer science gets to understanding life and how to bring life about, the more it strips away divinity or metaphysics from life and birth. And *that* the church cannot allow - the shrinking of its domain.
Once the sun was a god, because we had no way of understanding what it was. Currently, conception still carries a lot of metaphysics about it. When that goes away, what will remain? The church will think of something, but they'll have to backpedal a lot, so they do what they can to avert it.
Isn't it fascinating though, to see rightwingers wail and clamor about universities as left-wing commie hotbeds, and yet it never occurs to them that all these well-educated people and young people interested in becoming well-educated might just have LEARNED something that made them so?
Moderators on crack again. Parent is slightly inflammatory but makes a valid illustration of the idea expressed in GP. Security and liberty should not be a zero-sum game.
John Negroponte has blood on his hands. That he would be invited to a graduation speech is disgusting. I would be protesting too, even if it wasn't my university.
How much do you want to bet G-Man claimed something related to the judge's career, spouse and/or kids?
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Thanks, but since when is something usable because MS says so? When I work in an application, I can tell whether or not its UI is discoverable, and whatever MS says does not change my live experience one way or another.
The Ribbon is awful for discoverability, because (a) the tooltips are tiny and hard to read (for some people, like myself), (b) sometimes the tooltips are posisioned over the button labels, so you see the key but no longer recognize the command it performs, and (c) because you have to press the darn Alt key! A menu is something you can open and while it stays open, you can navigate the menu and read the keyboard shortcuts at your own pace. As a readout, it is much clearer and more convenient.
Then there's the fact that you cannot customize the ribbon at all. The measly, tiny toolbar MS so graciously allows you to add buttons to is a sorry excuse.
Then the contextual shifting of the ribbon means I can no longer just click a button that I know is always there, almost without looking, since the mouse hand has its relative position memorized. Now I must check the current page first and switch to the one I need - a displacement of sorts. The shifting is visually distracting, too.
MS has repeatedly lied about how the Ribbon supposedly takes less vertical space than the menu and toolbars (not true), and likewise their usability claims are - at the very least - highly subjective.
For that matter, Quicktime player (an earlier version) feaured prominently and deservedly on Interface Hall of Shame.
Second the book suggestion. No need to agree with everything Joel Spolsky says, but at the very least it's a good way to jumpstart thinking on avoiding UI annoycances.
I know it's not your call to decide what's illegal, I know that random people have truly random ideas about what is legal and what isn't, and I also know - as you would if you read some news - that people have been arrested or forcefully removed from planes/airports for much less than quoting a bit of The Declaration of Independence.
The idiotic fallacy in your post: repair technicians only invade the privacy of computers belonging to really bad people.
If the lock on your mailbox breaks, can the Post Office people open your letters when they come to fix it, you know, just because a return address in Kandahar, Afghanistan, looks kinda suspicious to them?
"He'd set it up to auto-load paintshop in thumbnail mode and we got an eyeful of all the guys "teen" porn. Not sure if it was legal or not but we just handed it to the boss and said "deal with it". I don't know what actually came of that."
So you didn't know if it was or wasn't illegal, but thought the guy should be reported anyway? Congratulations, you're a Good German now, wear your badge with pride.
Really, your post is a WTF moment of the day, at least.
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It would indeed be interesting to see a cost breakdown for a burger and find out why it sosts $7-10 these days. But I bet it's not because of a rise in workers' wages.
(For one thing, meat prices have been going up steadily in most/all parts of the world for the last three years or so. For another, real estate prices may have pumped up rent for fast-food joints. Add growing costs of road transport.)
As Slashdot's vocal libertarian contingent has taught us well, corporations are responsible solely for the financial interests of their shareholders. Microsoft is acting accordingly. Governments and NGOs have no business regulating Capitalism. If you don't like OOXML, don't use it. And greed is good. There. Any questions?
You are - everyone who has an employer is - already being paid less than what they "make", less than they are worth to the company. If you earn X a month, the company rakes in X+n from your effort alone.
So either your analogy doesn't apply, or if it does, the RIAAs of the world should be playing the same game and by the same rules everyone else is.
Great, so the US government is using untested software and untested hardware to shoot a big chunk of explosive toxic shit out of the sky over my head. I see absolutely no reason why this should fail.
Question.
Even though there is absolutely no reason this should fail, let's just, you know, theorize. In the unlikely case it doesn't quite go as planned... what is the US government going to use to shoot the wayward missile out of the sky before *it* lands in somebody's backyard?
A what?
Telcos didn't need no stinkin' warrant to welcome illegal wiretapping equipment, and you expect a printer manufacturer to ask for a warrant? Seriously?
"I'd like to know why this is such a big deal to individual people first off. "
For the very same reasons it was a big deal (to some) and not such a big deal (to others) that the communist government here in Poland, up until late 1980s, had every single typewriter registered, with a typed page on file. I imagine the same went on in other countries of the Soviet bloc.
You said yourself the dot patterns were not being used to fight crime, I guess that's your answer right there.
I guess the rule of the thumb is simple. When the government mandates such a thing, it is not for your good.
Ladies and gentlement, we present to you... the Iran Effect!
/. effect. Harrupmph.
We break our backs cutting six freaking undersea cables, and I swear they're HUGE like this, in as many days, and all you can think is
(Upside: at least nowe we have a bearing on who the authors of TrueCrupt are.)
That's just deaths attributable to the conflict, and above normal death rates (old age, diseases etc.)
Survey shows Iraq conflict has killed a million | Top News | Reuters
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL3048857920080130?rpc=401
Nobody needs to splice an undersea cable if they can go to AT&T and every other telco company and get what they want by idnetifying thnselves as the government and kindly asking, on dry land. For the US, the telco immunity bill seems to be a done deal: http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/01/dems-capitulate-on-fisa/
The article has this to say on the cause of the damage:
"According to reports, the internet blackout, which has left 75 million people with only limited access, was caused by a ship that tried to moor off the coast of Egypt in bad weather on Wednesday."
According to whose reports? Published where? What was the name of the ship? How was it discovered that it caused all the damage? Is the same ship also responsible for the third cable cut, which did not occur in the Mediterranean, and later than Wednesday?
This what you refer to as "facts". I sure hope you intended sarcasm.
"The issue is not the baby, but the method."
I don't think so. The method is what the church attacks, but it's only to have a tangible handle on the issue. The church's problem, I think, is that the closer science gets to understanding life and how to bring life about, the more it strips away divinity or metaphysics from life and birth. And *that* the church cannot allow - the shrinking of its domain.
Once the sun was a god, because we had no way of understanding what it was. Currently, conception still carries a lot of metaphysics about it. When that goes away, what will remain? The church will think of something, but they'll have to backpedal a lot, so they do what they can to avert it.
Nor did I imply you were any of these things, and did not mean to phrase my post offensively, sorry.
Rather, I remarked about the peculiarity of the situation.
"Students may not see it that way, but the reason that campus police have guns
is to protect^H^H^H^H^H^H^H intimidate the students."
There, fixed that for you.
Isn't it fascinating though, to see rightwingers wail and clamor about universities as left-wing commie hotbeds, and yet it never occurs to them that all these well-educated people and young people interested in becoming well-educated might just have LEARNED something that made them so?
Moderators on crack again. Parent is slightly inflammatory but makes a valid illustration of the idea expressed in GP. Security and liberty should not be a zero-sum game.
John Negroponte has blood on his hands. That he would be invited to a graduation speech is disgusting. I would be protesting too, even if it wasn't my university.
How much do you want to bet G-Man claimed something related to the judge's career, spouse and/or kids?
Thanks, but since when is something usable because MS says so? When I work in an application, I can tell whether or not its UI is discoverable, and whatever MS says does not change my live experience one way or another.
The Ribbon is awful for discoverability, because (a) the tooltips are tiny and hard to read (for some people, like myself), (b) sometimes the tooltips are posisioned over the button labels, so you see the key but no longer recognize the command it performs, and (c) because you have to press the darn Alt key! A menu is something you can open and while it stays open, you can navigate the menu and read the keyboard shortcuts at your own pace. As a readout, it is much clearer and more convenient.
Then there's the fact that you cannot customize the ribbon at all. The measly, tiny toolbar MS so graciously allows you to add buttons to is a sorry excuse.
Then the contextual shifting of the ribbon means I can no longer just click a button that I know is always there, almost without looking, since the mouse hand has its relative position memorized. Now I must check the current page first and switch to the one I need - a displacement of sorts. The shifting is visually distracting, too.
MS has repeatedly lied about how the Ribbon supposedly takes less vertical space than the menu and toolbars (not true), and likewise their usability claims are - at the very least - highly subjective.
For that matter, Quicktime player (an earlier version) feaured prominently and deservedly on Interface Hall of Shame.
Second the book suggestion. No need to agree with everything Joel Spolsky says, but at the very least it's a good way to jumpstart thinking on avoiding UI annoycances.
For values of "everything" that don't include "iTunes". Just don't copy that PoS.
(Is iTunes as bad on Macs as it is on Windows? And is iTunes a representative piece of software by Apple?)
You'll have to try some patience. The guy just got nabbed for sending anonymous email.
And that's the lamentable state of things I've been railing against, thank you.
I don't know what's illegal in England.
I know it's not your call to decide what's illegal, I know that random people have truly random ideas about what is legal and what isn't, and I also know - as you would if you read some news - that people have been arrested or forcefully removed from planes/airports for much less than quoting a bit of The Declaration of Independence.
The idiotic fallacy in your post: repair technicians only invade the privacy of computers belonging to really bad people.
If the lock on your mailbox breaks, can the Post Office people open your letters when they come to fix it, you know, just because a return address in Kandahar, Afghanistan, looks kinda suspicious to them?
"He'd set it up to auto-load paintshop in thumbnail mode and we got an eyeful of all the guys "teen" porn. Not sure if it was legal or not but we just handed it to the boss and said "deal with it". I don't know what actually came of that."
So you didn't know if it was or wasn't illegal, but thought the guy should be reported anyway? Congratulations, you're a Good German now, wear your badge with pride.
Really, your post is a WTF moment of the day, at least.