No, what he is really saying is that people are willing to take risks on tech if it will potentially increase their yields.
Average Joe consumer doesn't need a car that can drive itself, because he is using it to get from point A to B, not drive in circles in the parking lot while he goes off to do something else. A farmer on the other hand, can use something like that.
While touch-based input is well suited to many applications, conventional styles of input, such as a mouse/keyboard input may be preferred in other applications. Therefore it may be desirable for some devices to provide for touch-based input as well as mouse/keyboard input. However, a UI being displayed by the display device during a touch-based input mode might not be suited for use during a mouse/keyboard input mode, and vice versa.
I certainly hope you have to hit the escape key to switch modes. It would be vi/emacs all over again.
Back in the mid-80s our local PBS affiliate ran it before signing off during the weekends. It was one of the few things that made any childhood fear of the dark immediately dissipate. I'm not sure if it was because he was so enthusiastic or the sweet, gentle music or a presentation that was instantly accessible and all inclusive.
I can remember one night he was talking about Venus and that you could see it with a pair of binoculars and if you didn't have any, just use a pair of toilet paper tubes. I rushed to the bathroom, ripped two tubes out, dashed to the yard and *GASP* saw it! It was one of those moments that I'll never forget. Thanks Jack.
Traditionally you have periods of insanity. During time of war or mass panic folks will happily throw away what reason they have and ignore and even meet with aggression, rational argument.
Apple seem to have the opposite effect. When the antenna controversy was boiling, I heard a lot of interesting discourse from both sides of the aisle. Apple wasn't either the devil or the city on the hill. I heard a few folks from the anti-Apple camp admit that there were nice things about Apple's offerings and drop some of the aggression, while some pro-Apple folks admit that Apple was capable of mistakes and let go of some defensiveness. Stupidly, I thought that we may have turned a corner.
I think the SubGenius concept of "The Conspiracy" is applicable here.
It kind of reminds of back in the 90s when the urban legend spread that markings on secondary highway signs were secret instructions for UN tanks during the inevitable invasion.
Reminds me, I shouldn't buy a light blue helmet. I wouldn't want some vigilant patriot capping me in the head.
Why the hell do you have to say something nightmarish every day of the week? Does this crap turn investors on?
At this point I'm fully expecting him to tell an interviewer that: "Revealing political affiliation to others may result in being beaten to death by opposing operatives. I don't think society realizes the dangers in open displays of fraternity. Fortunately, based on your searches, Gmail, YouTube viewing habits, location and Facebook/Twitter posts, we can tell you what candidate to vote for. We think you want it this way. BTW, you are voting or at least we suggest that you vote for Vampire Bill and his running mate, 'Your rich uncle gave you a lightning ball of self-confidence!'."
So far I haven't found anything online, but he has a few papers from back when (local news papers criticizing and then retracting their views on the trial including the Attorney General's representation, their marriage some years earlier and records where his grandfather suddenly became "adopted"). Nothing on her being barred from the state or who the jurors were, that part falls to oral tradition (and the fact that court house had a nasty habit of burning to the ground), though hard evidence would be nice.
While I completely agree that we need to withhold our votes from politicians whose only solution is to mandate tougher sentencing (by 2040 jaywalking will get you convicted of 9 different crimes, if a school bus is involved 15 and 3 will get you the chair) things have gotten better. Ask people dealt with the criminal justice system before 1950.
Back then you didn't tell cops a thing about your "rights"; that questioned their authority and it gave them the "right" to re-locate your teeth to the floor.
None of beats a friend whose great-grandfather was a judge in 1910. His wife cheated on him, so he waited a few days, found the guy in a drug store, blew his brains out in front of a room full of witnesses, tossed the gun on the remains and walked down to the police station (for lunch). At the trial his defense attorneys were 3 judges and the state's Attorney General with a jury packed with lawyers and folks who owed the judge favors. The trial took only a few hours to find him not guilty. Two hours later there was no record that he was ever married and wife was barred form living in any county in the state. By the end of the week, the papers ran retractions. They didn't play back then.
I'll have to agree, it is a bit like shooting the paramedic because you oppose hospital bills. If law/policy makers have a good idea support it. When that idea turns sour, shout to the heavens.
Politicians have always been susceptible to corruption, that is the nature of power. It is up to their constituents to keep them honest. I'd even go a step further and say that once a politician has been beaten up and often enough there is a chance that they evolve into decent politicians. Statesmen don't become statesmen over night. They either get thrown into the rock tumbler and come out alive or sneak and scum their way around it and become career graftsmen who spend their years playing the public. How this works is entirely up to the voters.
Just load up hotjava and take a look. We have come a long way since then. Granted we don't have rocket cars, but rocket cars aren't cars and the future tech we feel our browsers should be, probably aren't browsers at all.
If you are willing to buy them in bulk from China, there are plenty of cheap tablets, some below the $100 mark that are equivalent to desktops from 10 years ago. The problem is that most people on Slashdot would rather have an Apple v. the World holy war.
As to your comment about 'trashing' drives to eject them, they could just right click and select Eject, or click the 'eject' button in finder which shows up next to any media that can be ejected, or they could click Eject in Disk Utility."
How is this elegant or even intuitive? On the few Snow Leopard machines I've used, ejecting a disc was always a pain in the neck. Essentially you tried one method and if that didn't work you tried another and another until you ran out of options. Then you restarted the machine and ran through those steps again and eventually the disc popped out. Oddly enough, I didn't have this issue with Tiger or even OS9.
Doubt you'll see that, but I could imagine there will be a few good RTCW SP mods to come out of it. Will people play it? Well, people still play and create SP campaigns for Q1.
a.) "I vote according to party lines and Assange's head should be a pike." b.) "I vote for the speaker who appeals to my needs without stepping on too many heads, I probably question some of Assange's ethics, though I can see the overall necessity. I probably think he is also a bit of a dick." c.) "I'm completely disillusioned by the idea of government. Let 'em burn, let 'em all burn and we can re-built something more just out of the ashes."
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I've got my doubts that O'Reilly Media wants to kill off the subculture they have been trying to cultivate for the last 5 years.
I had similar thoughts. We Slashdotters suck at money laundering.
No, what he is really saying is that people are willing to take risks on tech if it will potentially increase their yields.
Average Joe consumer doesn't need a car that can drive itself, because he is using it to get from point A to B, not drive in circles in the parking lot while he goes off to do something else. A farmer on the other hand, can use something like that.
And everything old is new again. http://gizmodo.com/5064483/how-to-hack-the-esquire-e+ink-cover-to-make-a-clock
While touch-based input is well suited to many applications, conventional styles of input, such as a mouse/keyboard input may be preferred in other applications. Therefore it may be desirable for some devices to provide for touch-based input as well as mouse/keyboard input. However, a UI being displayed by the display device during a touch-based input mode might not be suited for use during a mouse/keyboard input mode, and vice versa.
I certainly hope you have to hit the escape key to switch modes. It would be vi/emacs all over again.
I was going to write a long diatribe earlier about how some people just don't "get it", but instead I'd rather say just one thing, thanks. :)
Nah, I just call Bostonese, Bostonese. I wouldn't call it English.
Back in the mid-80s our local PBS affiliate ran it before signing off during the weekends. It was one of the few things that made any childhood fear of the dark immediately dissipate. I'm not sure if it was because he was so enthusiastic or the sweet, gentle music or a presentation that was instantly accessible and all inclusive.
I can remember one night he was talking about Venus and that you could see it with a pair of binoculars and if you didn't have any, just use a pair of toilet paper tubes. I rushed to the bathroom, ripped two tubes out, dashed to the yard and *GASP* saw it! It was one of those moments that I'll never forget. Thanks Jack.
Seems to bring something interesting to mind.
Traditionally you have periods of insanity. During time of war or mass panic folks will happily throw away what reason they have and ignore and even meet with aggression, rational argument.
Apple seem to have the opposite effect. When the antenna controversy was boiling, I heard a lot of interesting discourse from both sides of the aisle. Apple wasn't either the devil or the city on the hill. I heard a few folks from the anti-Apple camp admit that there were nice things about Apple's offerings and drop some of the aggression, while some pro-Apple folks admit that Apple was capable of mistakes and let go of some defensiveness. Stupidly, I thought that we may have turned a corner.
OK, this I would mod as insightful.
I think the SubGenius concept of "The Conspiracy" is applicable here.
It kind of reminds of back in the 90s when the urban legend spread that markings on secondary highway signs were secret instructions for UN tanks during the inevitable invasion.
Reminds me, I shouldn't buy a light blue helmet. I wouldn't want some vigilant patriot capping me in the head.
I'm guessing that the moniker of "Researcher" gives them a tiny bit of protection for being charged with tampering with a voting machine.
Why the hell do you have to say something nightmarish every day of the week? Does this crap turn investors on?
At this point I'm fully expecting him to tell an interviewer that: "Revealing political affiliation to others may result in being beaten to death by opposing operatives. I don't think society realizes the dangers in open displays of fraternity. Fortunately, based on your searches, Gmail, YouTube viewing habits, location and Facebook/Twitter posts, we can tell you what candidate to vote for. We think you want it this way. BTW, you are voting or at least we suggest that you vote for Vampire Bill and his running mate, 'Your rich uncle gave you a lightning ball of self-confidence!'."
So far I haven't found anything online, but he has a few papers from back when (local news papers criticizing and then retracting their views on the trial including the Attorney General's representation, their marriage some years earlier and records where his grandfather suddenly became "adopted"). Nothing on her being barred from the state or who the jurors were, that part falls to oral tradition (and the fact that court house had a nasty habit of burning to the ground), though hard evidence would be nice.
While I completely agree that we need to withhold our votes from politicians whose only solution is to mandate tougher sentencing (by 2040 jaywalking will get you convicted of 9 different crimes, if a school bus is involved 15 and 3 will get you the chair) things have gotten better. Ask people dealt with the criminal justice system before 1950.
Back then you didn't tell cops a thing about your "rights"; that questioned their authority and it gave them the "right" to re-locate your teeth to the floor.
None of beats a friend whose great-grandfather was a judge in 1910. His wife cheated on him, so he waited a few days, found the guy in a drug store, blew his brains out in front of a room full of witnesses, tossed the gun on the remains and walked down to the police station (for lunch). At the trial his defense attorneys were 3 judges and the state's Attorney General with a jury packed with lawyers and folks who owed the judge favors. The trial took only a few hours to find him not guilty. Two hours later there was no record that he was ever married and wife was barred form living in any county in the state. By the end of the week, the papers ran retractions. They didn't play back then.
I'll have to agree, it is a bit like shooting the paramedic because you oppose hospital bills. If law/policy makers have a good idea support it. When that idea turns sour, shout to the heavens.
Politicians have always been susceptible to corruption, that is the nature of power. It is up to their constituents to keep them honest. I'd even go a step further and say that once a politician has been beaten up and often enough there is a chance that they evolve into decent politicians. Statesmen don't become statesmen over night. They either get thrown into the rock tumbler and come out alive or sneak and scum their way around it and become career graftsmen who spend their years playing the public. How this works is entirely up to the voters.
That would be like asking RIAA attorneys how much piracy has cost the record industry. As the right analyst and it was trillions.
Just load up hotjava and take a look. We have come a long way since then. Granted we don't have rocket cars, but rocket cars aren't cars and the future tech we feel our browsers should be, probably aren't browsers at all.
They'll get to that just a soon as ISO approves the specs for LOL code.
If you are willing to buy them in bulk from China, there are plenty of cheap tablets, some below the $100 mark that are equivalent to desktops from 10 years ago. The problem is that most people on Slashdot would rather have an Apple v. the World holy war.
As to your comment about 'trashing' drives to eject them, they could just right click and select Eject, or click the 'eject' button in finder which shows up next to any media that can be ejected, or they could click Eject in Disk Utility."
How is this elegant or even intuitive? On the few Snow Leopard machines I've used, ejecting a disc was always a pain in the neck. Essentially you tried one method and if that didn't work you tried another and another until you ran out of options. Then you restarted the machine and ran through those steps again and eventually the disc popped out. Oddly enough, I didn't have this issue with Tiger or even OS9.
If I recall there was still a licensee that prevented its release.
Doubt you'll see that, but I could imagine there will be a few good RTCW SP mods to come out of it. Will people play it? Well, people still play and create SP campaigns for Q1.
This has become my litmus test for whether or not someone is both an idiot and an American.
I'd say variation of one of three camps.
a.) "I vote according to party lines and Assange's head should be a pike."
b.) "I vote for the speaker who appeals to my needs without stepping on too many heads, I probably question some of Assange's ethics, though I can see the overall necessity. I probably think he is also a bit of a dick."
c.) "I'm completely disillusioned by the idea of government. Let 'em burn, let 'em all burn and we can re-built something more just out of the ashes."