It's not a bad location, actually. Not too far from Edinburgh or Glasgow, for when you want to do big-city things, but on the edge of the Highlands, for when you want some nice scenery. And of course a bunker at your feet for when you want to be left alone. Win, win, win!
But the question is how meaningful these results are when discussing people who are not soldiers. Soldiers (especially deployed in combat or active peacekeeping situations) face some rather unique emotional challenges. What's good for them isn't necessarily going to be good for people in general.
I'm just hypothesizing here, but someone whose day job involves seeing people killed violently and having to do the same to other people might benefit from spending his down time experiencing similar visuals and activities in a virtual environment in which he knows he is safe from harm, thereby making it less traumatic. But for someone whose day job is running a deep fryer or driving a truck or fixing computers or trading stocks, that might not have any therapeutic value and could possibly have a negative effect. I'm not saying that it does, just that a study of soldiers doesn't say that it doesn't.
As a Non-US citizen, is there some deep and meaningful message in the drivel that I'm not understanding?
Only that artificial outrage is what has been passing for political discourse in this country for the last few years. The good(?) news is that it's gradually being overtaken by the real kind.
I haven't seen any evidence that having a fire-someone-immediately mentality keeps anyone out of management. Except of course the people who are on the receiving end of it. I've seen it (including up close and personal) more times than I want to think about.
Another problem with any fake 3D (i.e. dual images projected on a flat surface with binocular separation) is the fact that the parallax is fixed. When you view a truly 3D scene, your head doesn't stay still; it moves, even if just a little. You're not just sampling the scene from two angles, but from multiple angles. If you want a better look at a background object, you move your head to one side, and the image shifts a little. That's part of how your perception of depth works. Its much the same as why you need more than two speakers to create a realistically 3D soundscape (because we judge the direction of a sound in part by moving our heads imperceptibly). Even the most perfect flat-3D projection system cannot simulate that.
This doesn't mean that 3D "doesn't work", of course. It simulates an approximation of a scene, just as 24fps 2D images approximate it, and B&W 2D images approximate it less realistically, etc. But it will always fall sort of a true three-dimensional viewing experience. And kind of like a CGI rendering that doesn't quite look real (the Uncanny Valley), it'll always fall sort of satisfying.
I can't tell you the amount of times I've heard people say "I didn't know Word could do this!" after switching to 2007, when the function had been there all along.
...hidden from the user by Microsoft's broken approach to pull-down menus, which takes things off the visible menu if the user doesn't use it right away.
When I first encountered the MS Ribbon, with no one to explain it to me, it took me a full minute to figure out how to print. That's a pretty basic function, but it was unclear how to do it. I resorted to poking at things at random because there was no intuitive place to look for that function. (As I recall, I eventually found it by clicking on the unlabeled logo in the corner.) In principle, the ribbon might be a good UI design (especially for people who have no prior knowledge of how to use an office app). In practice, Microsoft's ability to hide the print function from me was a pretty big turn-off.
In fact, Microsoft's fondness for hiding things is chronic problem with their approach to UI design. In recent versions of Windows, they hide filename extensions by default, making it difficult to change/correct them when needed, and obscuring them as clues to the user (like ".EXE" on a piece of malware disguised with an MS Word icon). They have "personalized menus" that actively hide menu functions that you haven't used recently, which defeats much of the purpose of an explorable pull-down menu, by not letting the user remember "oh, I remember seeing that under View...", and even hiding from them the fact that these features exist. Instead of actually simplifying the software, they keep it complex but try to sweep that complexity under the rug.
"What is more puzzling is what the existence of two camps creating such huge codebases for a fundamental application type says about the whole state of open source development at this time. It clearly isn't the idealistic world it tries to present itself as."
How bloody clueless. This is like questioning the fact that we have more than one set of automobile designs and assembly plants, or more than one political party, or multiple soft drink bottling and distribution networks.
I strongly suspect that the gap is widening not because "smart" people are more in demand, but because "not so smart" people are becoming less in demand.
Take one economy. Remove the manufacturing jobs. Watch as the percentage of jobs held by people with college degrees goes up, and the wages on the rest of them go down due to the oversupply of people without.
Naw, it's a new character, alliteratively named Kevin Keller. His main dramatic role so far seems to be as an unrequited love interest for Veronica. I suspect it'll be a while before the second gay character appears in Riverdale, because then they'd have to deal with them actually dating (or not).
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Not really. The dump-on-the-table club is going to run into health inspection problems and never open. But a truly private members-only smoking bar should be fairly easy to set up in most jurisdictions.
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Trying to call privately owned bars "public" is misleading rhetoric.
You do realize that you sound like a 1950s restaurant owner with a "no dogs, blacks, or jews" sign in the window, don't you?
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It's not a bad location, actually. Not too far from Edinburgh or Glasgow, for when you want to do big-city things, but on the edge of the Highlands, for when you want some nice scenery. And of course a bunker at your feet for when you want to be left alone. Win, win, win!
But the question is how meaningful these results are when discussing people who are not soldiers. Soldiers (especially deployed in combat or active peacekeeping situations) face some rather unique emotional challenges. What's good for them isn't necessarily going to be good for people in general. I'm just hypothesizing here, but someone whose day job involves seeing people killed violently and having to do the same to other people might benefit from spending his down time experiencing similar visuals and activities in a virtual environment in which he knows he is safe from harm, thereby making it less traumatic. But for someone whose day job is running a deep fryer or driving a truck or fixing computers or trading stocks, that might not have any therapeutic value and could possibly have a negative effect. I'm not saying that it does, just that a study of soldiers doesn't say that it doesn't.
Only that artificial outrage is what has been passing for political discourse in this country for the last few years. The good(?) news is that it's gradually being overtaken by the real kind.
I haven't seen any evidence that having a fire-someone-immediately mentality keeps anyone out of management. Except of course the people who are on the receiving end of it. I've seen it (including up close and personal) more times than I want to think about.
Let me try: My password is i<3Taco. :)
Another problem with any fake 3D (i.e. dual images projected on a flat surface with binocular separation) is the fact that the parallax is fixed. When you view a truly 3D scene, your head doesn't stay still; it moves, even if just a little. You're not just sampling the scene from two angles, but from multiple angles. If you want a better look at a background object, you move your head to one side, and the image shifts a little. That's part of how your perception of depth works. Its much the same as why you need more than two speakers to create a realistically 3D soundscape (because we judge the direction of a sound in part by moving our heads imperceptibly). Even the most perfect flat-3D projection system cannot simulate that.
This doesn't mean that 3D "doesn't work", of course. It simulates an approximation of a scene, just as 24fps 2D images approximate it, and B&W 2D images approximate it less realistically, etc. But it will always fall sort of a true three-dimensional viewing experience. And kind of like a CGI rendering that doesn't quite look real (the Uncanny Valley), it'll always fall sort of satisfying.
Until we get real 3D projections. :)
Adding a coffee shop with free wifi would be a good start.
In other words they botched the design. Please stop making excuses for Microsoft's UI design incompetence.
Is it a good idea to hide from new users the fact that these shortcuts exist?
Features should be easily discoverable by people who don't know they exist.
Please stay away from UI design; you clearly don't have a clue how to do it well.
...hidden from the user by Microsoft's broken approach to pull-down menus, which takes things off the visible menu if the user doesn't use it right away.
When I first encountered the MS Ribbon, with no one to explain it to me, it took me a full minute to figure out how to print. That's a pretty basic function, but it was unclear how to do it. I resorted to poking at things at random because there was no intuitive place to look for that function. (As I recall, I eventually found it by clicking on the unlabeled logo in the corner.) In principle, the ribbon might be a good UI design (especially for people who have no prior knowledge of how to use an office app). In practice, Microsoft's ability to hide the print function from me was a pretty big turn-off.
In fact, Microsoft's fondness for hiding things is chronic problem with their approach to UI design. In recent versions of Windows, they hide filename extensions by default, making it difficult to change/correct them when needed, and obscuring them as clues to the user (like ".EXE" on a piece of malware disguised with an MS Word icon). They have "personalized menus" that actively hide menu functions that you haven't used recently, which defeats much of the purpose of an explorable pull-down menu, by not letting the user remember "oh, I remember seeing that under View...", and even hiding from them the fact that these features exist. Instead of actually simplifying the software, they keep it complex but try to sweep that complexity under the rug.
Speaking of links, the LibreOffice installer still links to OpenOffice.org when it finishes.
Not a good sign of attention to detail in this fork.
Yes, for the owners of The Car Company, The Party, and The Soft Drink Corporation.
I'm no Free Market absolutist, but I have problems with that scenario.
No I think they went with the give-the-users-what-they-want mindset, and gave us a familiar UI.
"What is more puzzling is what the existence of two camps creating such huge codebases for a fundamental application type says about the whole state of open source development at this time. It clearly isn't the idealistic world it tries to present itself as."
How bloody clueless. This is like questioning the fact that we have more than one set of automobile designs and assembly plants, or more than one political party, or multiple soft drink bottling and distribution networks.
I strongly suspect that the gap is widening not because "smart" people are more in demand, but because "not so smart" people are becoming less in demand.
Take one economy. Remove the manufacturing jobs. Watch as the percentage of jobs held by people with college degrees goes up, and the wages on the rest of them go down due to the oversupply of people without.
Finally someone figured out a way to synthesize copper, so people can stop stealing it from the plumbing of abandoned buildings in Detroit.
The question is how to get rid of all that extra waste energy it releases... Maybe we can shunt it into space somehow?
Doing the same thing that they've already been doing for 5-10 years is easier than learning how to do something different.
OK, so you don't realize it. 'Nuff said.
Yup.
The federal government wanted the Code; they weren't about to object to it just because of restraint-of-trade issues.
Naw, it's a new character, alliteratively named Kevin Keller. His main dramatic role so far seems to be as an unrequited love interest for Veronica. I suspect it'll be a while before the second gay character appears in Riverdale, because then they'd have to deal with them actually dating (or not).
Not really. The dump-on-the-table club is going to run into health inspection problems and never open. But a truly private members-only smoking bar should be fairly easy to set up in most jurisdictions.
You do realize that you sound like a 1950s restaurant owner with a "no dogs, blacks, or jews" sign in the window, don't you?