Well, you can argue that a new stadium is an investment in the city. It can revitalize an area of town and attract new business.
Case in point, PacBell/SBC/AT&T Park has been a contributing factor to completely revamping the Embarcadero in San Francisco. That said, although SF contributed a few million dollars in tax abatements, the stadium has been privately funded.
If you think about it, this makes a lot of sense. Go figure, the demographic that's willing to buy that overpriced game console is the demographic of unemployed kids who's parents give them enough money to have a thousand dollar vacation in front of a Best Buy.
Fuck the fancy new toy. Go to Costa Rica or something.
Please don't go to the polls and pick D's and R's simply because they're D's and R's. Moreover, spare us votes based on slim ideologies, assumptions, and or dumb talking points that get paraded around.
That said, you SHOULD vote. (wha?) For Christ's sake, you're posting to Slashdot. That tells me that you, at the very least, know how to use a computer and have some rudimentary capability of comprehending geeky logic. You're more then capable of researching candidates and propositions.
Don't you care about war, poverty, disenfranchisement, famine, disease? We could be developing solutions to these problems at a much faster rate if the electorate would get off their asses and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. And that something isn't much... at the very least read Wikipedia and get an absentee ballot.
That said, "no interface" is a figure of speech. Technically, every tool we use has an "interface" of some sort. For example, the interface for a pencil is arguably the wood stalk that's intended to reside in your hand.
By "no interface" we're really talking about interfaces that are intuitive and reference more natural metaphors of interactivity.
[i]I decided to send them my community member a song. Browsed to my music folder, found to a song and, instead of selecting to play it, I chose to send it.[/i]
That was to a worst two a sentences I ever look, I choose to read.
"like Michael Jordan was born to play basketball. I feel like I was born to play video games."... and to use that as an excuse to compare myself to Michael Jordan.
Protocol varies states to state, but as I recall votes are first tallied at the precinct level and then tallied at the district level. Moreover bipartisan volunteers staff precincts.
Unfortunately, electronic voting presents opportunities to hack machines that are being watched by bipartisan staff on election day.
Outsourcing is certainly not new, however one could argue that massive outsourcing is new for white color jobs that require a significant level of very specific education. Traditional manufacturing jobs do not necessarily require a university degree.
It is true that you can certainly tamper an election that's based upon paper ballots. Heck, in 2001 San Franciscans suddenly found ballot box lids mysteriously floating ashore after the November election.
That said, the amount of shady crap surrounding Diebold voting machines is fairly ridiculous. Lets ignore the fact that you have a former CEO, who resigned for allegations of corruption, and who was committed to "delivering" an election to one party. As well as drastically skewed exit polling. All in all, you have a slew of voting machines models that lack the most basic security procedures... such as proper, or any, locks. You also have a fairly complicated voting solution that presents a number of opportunities for a compromise.
It looks cool, but if you think about the thing it's a fairly stupid idea. This keyboard enters data by looking at finger location, not by finger pressure. Among other things that means it may misread resting fingers and misread fingers approaching a target key. It also lacks tactile feedback.
That thing is about as useful as a steering wheal made out of dreams.
The vibration motor was removed because it would interfere with the accelerometer.
Nintendo is able to retain vibration for the Wii because the Wii remote, which contains a vibration motor, relies upon an optical sensor bar and the nunchuck attachment, which contains an accelerometer, lacks a vibration motor.
Did you actually read the article? A major part of the article focused upon managing feature sets which have ballooned out of proportion and have surpassed the capabilities of contemporary conventions. In other words, the article was about addressing the "complex systems" your referring to. Bill Buxton is certainly not an eye-candy interactive designer or some schmoe from marketing.
And IMHO, the Newton OS and the DRI GEM did not die because their GUIs where not flamboyant enough. Those products died due to a number of other reasons.
A few years ago Walmart forced Rubbermaid to close down US plants and begin manufacturing overseas. Now this wasn't because people were not buying Rubbermaid goods. They did this at a time when Rubbermaid was extremely profitable and people were more then willing to buy their products as priced.
However, Rubbermaid became reliant on Walmart for distribution, and Walmart wanted cheeper supply. At first Rubbermaid wouldn't fold, but then Walmart stopped carrying Rubbermaid products. By doing that Walmart almost crushed an incredibly successful company. Rubbermaid has since outsource manufacturing and, as I recall, now have products back in Walmart stores.
Among other things, they've done also done this with "tipper stickers" and "clean" CDs.
A good joke would consist of the following steps: 1) set an Intel build of MacOS to display the BSoD 2) instal bootcamp and a copy of XP, but never actually boot into XP 3) find and install a cheep faulty RAM module that allows MacOS to kernel panic with some degree of frequency. 4) bring the Mac in for service at an Apple store 5) claim that MacOS started displaying the BSoD after you installed Windows. 6) wait for someone to pick up the red phone to Cupertino.
If you're dealing with an older Mac vet, add an obscure reference to Rhapsody and "Red Box" for bonus points and added confusion.
Of course. I remember that Macworld where Steve got up and said "10.0 will be slow and riddled with bugs. It's our intention for the OS to function like this. However, if you would like the useable version of the operating system, please wait for 10.1"
Small businesses typically don't have massive sites. In most cases adding a bunch of ALT tags to images is not going to break the bank.
In Target's case, they have a large company with a site that's driven by a database and modular components. Adding ALT tags to their product image really shouldn't be that big of a deal unless they did some sloppy development. Their legal fees probably cost a lot more then their development costs. I imagine the plaintiff simply followed through with this case to set precedent.
That said, Target is retarded for not accounting for universal design at the get go. I'm sorry, but it's not like blindness and or visual acuity problems are rare. There is a growing demand for accessibility, and as tech savvy people age this is only going to increase exponentially.
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Well, you can argue that a new stadium is an investment in the city. It can revitalize an area of town and attract new business.
Case in point, PacBell/SBC/AT&T Park has been a contributing factor to completely revamping the Embarcadero in San Francisco. That said, although SF contributed a few million dollars in tax abatements, the stadium has been privately funded.
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If you think about it, this makes a lot of sense. Go figure, the demographic that's willing to buy that overpriced game console is the demographic of unemployed kids who's parents give them enough money to have a thousand dollar vacation in front of a Best Buy.
Fuck the fancy new toy. Go to Costa Rica or something.
Please don't go to the polls and pick D's and R's simply because they're D's and R's. Moreover, spare us votes based on slim ideologies, assumptions, and or dumb talking points that get paraded around.
That said, you SHOULD vote. (wha?) For Christ's sake, you're posting to Slashdot. That tells me that you, at the very least, know how to use a computer and have some rudimentary capability of comprehending geeky logic. You're more then capable of researching candidates and propositions.
Don't you care about war, poverty, disenfranchisement, famine, disease? We could be developing solutions to these problems at a much faster rate if the electorate would get off their asses and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. And that something isn't much... at the very least read Wikipedia and get an absentee ballot.
WAKE UP!
VOTE.
You also left an "L" out of "spelling.
And not one single mention of intelligent design?
... the Japanese killed the rare ocean dwelling animal in order to sell four flipper dolphin medicine and magical flipper medallions to the rich.
Quite honestly, the goal would be to abandon the keyboard for something more intuitive. They keyboard is somewhat of a lame input device.
I have purchased 2 iPods from the iPod store. I like them, but now that Zune makes iPods I might buy a Zune iPod.
Word. I saw this months ago.
That said, "no interface" is a figure of speech. Technically, every tool we use has an "interface" of some sort. For example, the interface for a pencil is arguably the wood stalk that's intended to reside in your hand.
By "no interface" we're really talking about interfaces that are intuitive and reference more natural metaphors of interactivity.
Who wrote that article? Borat?
[i]I decided to send them my community member a song. Browsed to my music folder, found to a song and, instead of selecting to play it, I chose to send it.[/i]
That was to a worst two a sentences I ever look, I choose to read.
"like Michael Jordan was born to play basketball. I feel like I was born to play video games." ... and to use that as an excuse to compare myself to Michael Jordan.
utter morons, huh? Thanks hozer.
Protocol varies states to state, but as I recall votes are first tallied at the precinct level and then tallied at the district level. Moreover bipartisan volunteers staff precincts.
Unfortunately, electronic voting presents opportunities to hack machines that are being watched by bipartisan staff on election day.
Outsourcing is certainly not new, however one could argue that massive outsourcing is new for white color jobs that require a significant level of very specific education. Traditional manufacturing jobs do not necessarily require a university degree.
It is true that you can certainly tamper an election that's based upon paper ballots. Heck, in 2001 San Franciscans suddenly found ballot box lids mysteriously floating ashore after the November election.
That said, the amount of shady crap surrounding Diebold voting machines is fairly ridiculous. Lets ignore the fact that you have a former CEO, who resigned for allegations of corruption, and who was committed to "delivering" an election to one party. As well as drastically skewed exit polling. All in all, you have a slew of voting machines models that lack the most basic security procedures... such as proper, or any, locks. You also have a fairly complicated voting solution that presents a number of opportunities for a compromise.
true true.
It looks cool, but if you think about the thing it's a fairly stupid idea. This keyboard enters data by looking at finger location, not by finger pressure. Among other things that means it may misread resting fingers and misread fingers approaching a target key. It also lacks tactile feedback.
That thing is about as useful as a steering wheal made out of dreams.
very true. That's just the BS excuse Sony gave.
The vibration motor was removed because it would interfere with the accelerometer.
Nintendo is able to retain vibration for the Wii because the Wii remote, which contains a vibration motor, relies upon an optical sensor bar and the nunchuck attachment, which contains an accelerometer, lacks a vibration motor.
Did you actually read the article? A major part of the article focused upon managing feature sets which have ballooned out of proportion and have surpassed the capabilities of contemporary conventions. In other words, the article was about addressing the "complex systems" your referring to. Bill Buxton is certainly not an eye-candy interactive designer or some schmoe from marketing.
And IMHO, the Newton OS and the DRI GEM did not die because their GUIs where not flamboyant enough. Those products died due to a number of other reasons.
A few years ago Walmart forced Rubbermaid to close down US plants and begin manufacturing overseas. Now this wasn't because people were not buying Rubbermaid goods. They did this at a time when Rubbermaid was extremely profitable and people were more then willing to buy their products as priced.
However, Rubbermaid became reliant on Walmart for distribution, and Walmart wanted cheeper supply. At first Rubbermaid wouldn't fold, but then Walmart stopped carrying Rubbermaid products. By doing that Walmart almost crushed an incredibly successful company. Rubbermaid has since outsource manufacturing and, as I recall, now have products back in Walmart stores.
Among other things, they've done also done this with "tipper stickers" and "clean" CDs.
It could've been called "awesome RAM"
A good joke would consist of the following steps:
1) set an Intel build of MacOS to display the BSoD
2) instal bootcamp and a copy of XP, but never actually boot into XP
3) find and install a cheep faulty RAM module that allows MacOS to kernel panic with some degree of frequency.
4) bring the Mac in for service at an Apple store
5) claim that MacOS started displaying the BSoD after you installed Windows.
6) wait for someone to pick up the red phone to Cupertino.
If you're dealing with an older Mac vet, add an obscure reference to Rhapsody and "Red Box" for bonus points and added confusion.
I speak for all Mac geeks when I say, ugh, "PRAM."
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Couldn't they pick an acronym that's not already being used?
Of course. I remember that Macworld where Steve got up and said "10.0 will be slow and riddled with bugs. It's our intention for the OS to function like this. However, if you would like the useable version of the operating system, please wait for 10.1"
Small businesses typically don't have massive sites. In most cases adding a bunch of ALT tags to images is not going to break the bank.
In Target's case, they have a large company with a site that's driven by a database and modular components. Adding ALT tags to their product image really shouldn't be that big of a deal unless they did some sloppy development. Their legal fees probably cost a lot more then their development costs. I imagine the plaintiff simply followed through with this case to set precedent.
That said, Target is retarded for not accounting for universal design at the get go. I'm sorry, but it's not like blindness and or visual acuity problems are rare. There is a growing demand for accessibility, and as tech savvy people age this is only going to increase exponentially.