I'm committed to the concept of constitutional democracy, in which the ability of the voters to pass legislation that violates certain inalienable rights, is restricted. Ironically, those restrictions can be enacted democratically, if you outline them abstractly without cases of special pleading, and explain why (for example) the right to free speech protects everyone, and the downsides of it (e.g. you have to let people say that they don't like the king) can be addresses by... more free speech (e.g. the people who love the old guy can say so too).
Columbus faced risks of death due to starvation and dehydration if he didn't reach his intended destination (India) or something similar enough for survival (the Bahamas). Mars colonists would face those risks even if they did. See the difference?
You left out one other key point about Amundsen-Scott: no one goes there as a one-way trip (at least not on purpose). Every single person there right now remains a citizen of Somewhere Else, and intends to return there. Most of them will return (at least temporarily) in just a few months. The supply chain that stocks the South Pole station with food and fuel also circulates people in and out.
I don't use those as letters after my name; go take pot shots at someone who actually does. I'm talking about the fact that Microsoft hides and renames things then hides them somewhere else from one version to another, something that even a lot of Microsoft fanboys admit is annoying. Anyway, you should consider going back to school as well... and graduating.
As someone with a BS in Computer Science and a BFA in Digital Media and Illustration, I'd certainly like to have more of the latter working in computing. Visual trainwrecks like the Windows XP Fisher-Price theme, usability disasters like Microsoft's game of "Where's The Button (and Menu)?" in every software upgrade in the last decade, and the less said about the uncanny valley that gaming has gotten lost in the better... sometimes make me want to quit tech and become an oil painter.
Yes, you are the only one in the world who has hated every choice Apple has made with their GUI.:)
I've disliked a lot of their choices over the decades, and I've got a BFA in design that supposedly means my criticisms have some validity. But Apple has gotten right far more than they've gotten wrong. For example, the rounded rectangle, which was the shape of the screen image in Finder 1.0, and available to programmers as a standard shape in its graphics routines (along with line, circle, and square), and which remains the standard shape of every window in OS X, every app icon in iOS, and nearly every Apple device... was a perfect cornerstone of design: tidy and clean without feeling mechanical.
You simply don't know what the hell you're talking about. The normal human brain is very good a visual recognition of objects, and can find a familiar, distinctive icon for a program such as iTunes more quickly than it can find the word "iTunes". We recognize a red, hexagonal sign more quickly than we would recognize a white rectangle with black letters that read "stop". I'm sorry if the peculiarities of your brain development don't handle this properly, but don't begrudge the rest of us a UI that takes advantage of this.
Not true. There are many nerds who succumb to the indoctrination that these contests are somehow worthy of attention, and subsequently analyze them with the fascination that other nerds apply to quantum theory, Klingon literature, network engineering, or the former DC Multiverse.
A blind person who relies only on the sound of oncoming traffic to tell him when to cross the street is a blind person who is going to get hit eventually, regardless of hybrid/electric cars.
The blind already have a cue to know they're about to be run over by a car: they're in the street with no assistance. I have two legally blind cousins, and they both know better than to cross the street without the aid of a sighted person or a signal stopping traffic for them. They don't just cup their ear, tilt their head, and say "sounds safe!" The people who step into traffic recklessly are sighted people.
Why doesn't Congress give the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration three years to come up with a requirement for pedestrians to look both ways before crossing the street?
I'd like to take the person responsible for the first image out and punch him in the nose, for using Greek look-alike letters as substitutes for Latin letters. Using a Lambda as a capital A or a Sigma as a capital E is the worst form of international illiteracy.
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HTML5 is not a superset of Flash. Flash is not a superset of HTML5.
Get over the pissing contests and use the right tool for the job.
Someday this research will be invaluable in restoring mobility to robots that have suffered serious damage or manufacturing defect, enabling their broken limbs to be replaced by (admittedly inferior) limbs harvested from humans.
It's what the word means. Just because you've always assumed in ignorance that the word means something else, doesn't mean that other people are misusing or changing the meaning of a word.
"Good grief, so what word should we now use for government-enforced book burnings"
How about the phrase "government censorship"? Or did you indifference toward learning English also include skipping over the concept of "adjectives"?
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"Thou shalt not insult the king" would depend on special pleading. Try not to be stupid on purpose.
I'm committed to the concept of constitutional democracy, in which the ability of the voters to pass legislation that violates certain inalienable rights, is restricted. Ironically, those restrictions can be enacted democratically, if you outline them abstractly without cases of special pleading, and explain why (for example) the right to free speech protects everyone, and the downsides of it (e.g. you have to let people say that they don't like the king) can be addresses by... more free speech (e.g. the people who love the old guy can say so too).
Or on Mars.
Columbus faced risks of death due to starvation and dehydration if he didn't reach his intended destination (India) or something similar enough for survival (the Bahamas). Mars colonists would face those risks even if they did. See the difference?
You left out one other key point about Amundsen-Scott: no one goes there as a one-way trip (at least not on purpose). Every single person there right now remains a citizen of Somewhere Else, and intends to return there. Most of them will return (at least temporarily) in just a few months. The supply chain that stocks the South Pole station with food and fuel also circulates people in and out.
...Nine?
Please?
With a name like "Curiosity" I would expect it to be bent on the destruction of life (at least the feline variety), not discovery.
I don't use those as letters after my name; go take pot shots at someone who actually does. I'm talking about the fact that Microsoft hides and renames things then hides them somewhere else from one version to another, something that even a lot of Microsoft fanboys admit is annoying. Anyway, you should consider going back to school as well... and graduating.
As someone with a BS in Computer Science and a BFA in Digital Media and Illustration, I'd certainly like to have more of the latter working in computing. Visual trainwrecks like the Windows XP Fisher-Price theme, usability disasters like Microsoft's game of "Where's The Button (and Menu)?" in every software upgrade in the last decade, and the less said about the uncanny valley that gaming has gotten lost in the better... sometimes make me want to quit tech and become an oil painter.
Yes, you are the only one in the world who has hated every choice Apple has made with their GUI. :)
I've disliked a lot of their choices over the decades, and I've got a BFA in design that supposedly means my criticisms have some validity. But Apple has gotten right far more than they've gotten wrong. For example, the rounded rectangle, which was the shape of the screen image in Finder 1.0, and available to programmers as a standard shape in its graphics routines (along with line, circle, and square), and which remains the standard shape of every window in OS X, every app icon in iOS, and nearly every Apple device... was a perfect cornerstone of design: tidy and clean without feeling mechanical.
You simply don't know what the hell you're talking about. The normal human brain is very good a visual recognition of objects, and can find a familiar, distinctive icon for a program such as iTunes more quickly than it can find the word "iTunes". We recognize a red, hexagonal sign more quickly than we would recognize a white rectangle with black letters that read "stop". I'm sorry if the peculiarities of your brain development don't handle this properly, but don't begrudge the rest of us a UI that takes advantage of this.
And the world could use fewer assholes. You're welcome to leave now.
Not true. There are many nerds who succumb to the indoctrination that these contests are somehow worthy of attention, and subsequently analyze them with the fascination that other nerds apply to quantum theory, Klingon literature, network engineering, or the former DC Multiverse.
I'm actually torn between being outraged at the petty suppression of information, and totally not giving a damn.
I've found that drinking wine directly from the bottle makes all of this irrelevant.
What you hear in this announcement is the sound of a "cloud" evaporating.
A blind person who relies only on the sound of oncoming traffic to tell him when to cross the street is a blind person who is going to get hit eventually, regardless of hybrid/electric cars.
The blind already have a cue to know they're about to be run over by a car: they're in the street with no assistance. I have two legally blind cousins, and they both know better than to cross the street without the aid of a sighted person or a signal stopping traffic for them. They don't just cup their ear, tilt their head, and say "sounds safe!" The people who step into traffic recklessly are sighted people.
Why doesn't Congress give the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration three years to come up with a requirement for pedestrians to look both ways before crossing the street?
Mod parent +1: Bullseye.
I'd like to take the person responsible for the first image out and punch him in the nose, for using Greek look-alike letters as substitutes for Latin letters. Using a Lambda as a capital A or a Sigma as a capital E is the worst form of international illiteracy.
HTML5 is not a superset of Flash.
Flash is not a superset of HTML5.
Get over the pissing contests and use the right tool for the job.
Someday this research will be invaluable in restoring mobility to robots that have suffered serious damage or manufacturing defect, enabling their broken limbs to be replaced by (admittedly inferior) limbs harvested from humans.
It's what the word means. Just because you've always assumed in ignorance that the word means something else, doesn't mean that other people are misusing or changing the meaning of a word.
"Good grief, so what word should we now use for government-enforced book burnings"
How about the phrase "government censorship"? Or did you indifference toward learning English also include skipping over the concept of "adjectives"?
The most mature, insightful, and informed part of this reply was "%big fart sound%".