Nintendo thumb? Pffft. Atari's 2600 controller caused a lot more injuries than Nintendo's ever did. On one hand, one button and your thumb performing the same motion over and over and over again, on the other hand the joystick. I *still* have the callous on the webbing between my thumb and index finger from Megamania.
Agree with the parent. When I'm in Unix (GUIs are for WIMPS) or Windows (and I remember to use keyboard shortcuts) my hands feel much better at the end of the day.
Whereas, if I'm using the web a lot for research while programming or debugging graphical applications where I'm doing a lot of pointing-and-clicking, I'm very sore at quitting time and my wrist crackles and pops.
Movie, Naked Lunch -- Nelson: "I can think of two things wrong with that title" Store, "Stoner's Pot Palace" -- Otto: "Man, that is flagrant false advertising!"
What I'd rather have is the "Thumbs Up/Down" buttons act as direct feedback to the advertizers:
I like/Don't like this ad. You missed/hit your target audience. This ad was funny/offensive. That's cool/inane. More/no more Purple Pill commercials. That movie looks interesting/boring. Etc...
But of course, I miss most of the ads anyway with TiVo.:)
Longhorn screenshot previews come out and hundreds of geeks complain about the UI, before they've even tried it.
Many of these are the same guys that forget to shower and couldn't dress themselves well to save their lives.* Let's not forget all of the consistantly great UI's that come out of the OSS movement. *cough*
So how about some constructive criticism? Or waiting till it's out and trying it?
* I've go to a lot of cons. I've sat next to you. Denials will do you no good.
Can't wait till this tech finds its way down to wristwatch size.
I've been looking for a very thin, rugged wristwatch that I could wear playing volleyball. It'd have to be impact resistant (obviously) but thin to stay out of the way. Maybe this is the start.
Wearing a watch on my ankle or dangling from my shorts just isn't cutting it.
I've never seen the TV version, am a big fan of the books. I was at the 7pm show with a towel, getting odd looks from the rest of the group I was in who hadn't read the books. I don't care. I'm the kind of frood who knows where his towel is.
I liked this Marvin. His appearance looked good with the rest of the film. On the Heart of Gold he was just another piece of furniture, on the Vogon planet he was in stark contrast to everything else, and his head/brain was the size of a planet.
All right, a very small planet. Would you believe a moon?
Marvin's lines consistantly got the laugh-out-loud moments from the audience ("Here I am, brain the size...", "This will only end in tears", etc...).
My father was a Unionized employee, and actually was part of the UAW hierarchy. He didn't believe it all, but since it was a requirement he had to push the propaganda. I can guess what it'd say:
*screws on hat tightly, to cut off circulation to brain*
"Union Cable Layers would have been trained as apprentices in this kind of work, and received whatever other training was necessary for local building codes, etc...
Your average Joe would do a slipshod job and your cabling would be sub-standard and not work as well. In addition, an untrained cable-monkey might lay cables in places that were dangerous to the rest of the building structures (across high voltage, etc..) and possibly causing disaster and lawsuits. You wouldn't want that, would you?
And if you even think of doing this yourself, expect to get a visit from the brotherhood of Electricians, Cable Layers and Egg Candlers Local 547."
Vonage is going to lose so hard on this one, and it's a good thing to get this out of the way early. I'm really an anti-government-involvement and anti-regulatory person, but I still can't see where they have any leg to stand on.
911 is an emergency tool like any other. First aid kits, fire extinguishers, and pull-handle fire alarms. Phones are emergency communication devices, just like those red pull-handles in buildings. The fact that pay phones and deactivated cell phones are required to be able to dial 911 is the final nail in Vonage's coffin.
If there's a fire I have to: 1. Break Glass/Open Cabinet, 2. Read Terms of Service, 3. Discover that this handle I'm about to pull is non-functional because the emergency service hasn't been properly activated... Then expect to be sued into the stone age by everyone who gets hurt in the fire, and lose. Badly.
The fact that you've informed me that some of the phones on the premises may not be properly functioning emergency communication devices doesn't absolve you of any liability at all.
I'm honestly surprised at the Slashdotters who rush to Vonage's defense on technical grounds that IP doesn't allow proper location. There are *many* ways of finding out where the phone is. Some technical (GPS receivers in the IP/Analog unit transmits last known location) and some not (first call from new IP address, you talk to a human to establish your physical location). Shame on you. Fix your broken technological marvels.
No.. VoIP is NOT tranditional phone service.. saying "well because I use it to talk to people.. I should have regular 911" is flawed..
No.. Your analogy is seriously flawed. I'm not going near it.
The point is, that for emergencies we've been training people since the late 70's to pick up a phone and dial 911. Adults and more importantly *kids* know to do this.
The 911 system must work regardless of what kind of legitimate phone-device a person picks up.
For those of us that occasionally program in C# with.NET this is a bigger pain that you know. The two most descriptive keywords of the programming environment really are meaningless nothing-words in the Web's (normally) best search engine.
Or that, as a child, Luke was unkowingly using the Force to see things that happened elsewhere.
Concentrate...feel the Force flow. Yes. Good. Calm, yes. Through
the Force, things you will see. Other places. The future, the past. Old friends long gone.
He simply could have had visions of his mother, and reconstructed those as memories.
Yes, but there's also a strong voice of Slashdot naysayers indicating that she's making a strong connection between modern species of C. prisca and an insect encased in amber. The researcher is claiming that this "almost identical" specimen from 70 million years ago exhibits the same behavioral and physiological responses to cold/lack of sun as a modern day species based on compartive anatomy. That's quite a leap.
[There is more elaboration on this point, by other posters, elsewhere on this thread...]
We're not talking about common North American species. We're talking about tropical species.
To be fair, the authors of TFA didn't say that the species found in amber were identical to the modern tropical honey bees. What it said was [emphasis mine]: "Late Cretaceous tropical honeybees preserved in amber are almost identical to their modern relatives". There's further waffling about the connection between modern tropical honey bees and their ancient counterparts elsewhere in the article.
The C. prisca "ancestors" found may have had an evolved response to cold and lack of sunlight like modern cold-weather honeybees -- possibly as a response to high volcanic activity. For modern tropical honeybees, this feature wasn't needed and was later dropped.
Frankly, without reviving those bees from the amber there's no way of telling if they could survive the cold or no, and the researcher is talking through her hat.
I'll bite. The baby (Jack-Jack) burst into flames when being carted away by the villian. (Flames, then metal?, then turned into some kind of demon-baby...)
The veto power dicourages fair play and compromise (which is the essence of democracy).
The essence of a democracy encourages fair play and compromise but only until a voting majority of the representatives is reached. Once that majority is reached, it's "screw the minority".
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Nintendo thumb? Pffft. Atari's 2600 controller caused a lot more injuries than Nintendo's ever did. On one hand, one button and your thumb performing the same motion over and over and over again, on the other hand the joystick. I *still* have the callous on the webbing between my thumb and index finger from Megamania.
Agree with the parent. When I'm in Unix (GUIs are for WIMPS) or Windows (and I remember to use keyboard shortcuts) my hands feel much better at the end of the day.
Whereas, if I'm using the web a lot for research while programming or debugging graphical applications where I'm doing a lot of pointing-and-clicking, I'm very sore at quitting time and my wrist crackles and pops.
Keyboards aren't the problem, mice are.
ObSimpsons References:
Movie, Naked Lunch -- Nelson: "I can think of two things wrong with that title"
Store, "Stoner's Pot Palace" -- Otto: "Man, that is flagrant false advertising!"
Garbage. Blasphemy of the highest order.
Shaved the beard in '98, but have been hacking Unix since '85.
Except it's only useful on static page display issues. Solving anything on a dynamic page is close kin to solving the halting problem. Good luck.
What I'd rather have is the "Thumbs Up/Down" buttons act as direct feedback to the advertizers:
:)
I like/Don't like this ad. You missed/hit your target audience. This ad was funny/offensive. That's cool/inane. More/no more Purple Pill commercials. That movie looks interesting/boring. Etc...
But of course, I miss most of the ads anyway with TiVo.
Longhorn screenshot previews come out and hundreds of geeks complain about the UI, before they've even tried it.
Many of these are the same guys that forget to shower and couldn't dress themselves well to save their lives.* Let's not forget all of the consistantly great UI's that come out of the OSS movement. *cough*
So how about some constructive criticism? Or waiting till it's out and trying it?
* I've go to a lot of cons. I've sat next to you. Denials will do you no good.
I think Asimov would have liked this article. He had a good sense of humor, didn't take offense easily, and was quite the flirt from all accounts.
Good news! It's a suppository!
Can't wait till this tech finds its way down to wristwatch size.
I've been looking for a very thin, rugged wristwatch that I could wear playing volleyball. It'd have to be impact resistant (obviously) but thin to stay out of the way. Maybe this is the start.
Wearing a watch on my ankle or dangling from my shorts just isn't cutting it.
First he hit Chile, then northern California. He's a little rusty, and is just homing in...
They'd like to use their new railgun powers for picking up chicks. Although in practice this rarely works.
ObFuturama:
Fry: I can't swallow that!
Prof. Farnsworth: Good news! It's a suppository!
The "Get PDF" button which was there a while ago...became a 403.
And now the item is no longer available.
I've never seen the TV version, am a big fan of the books. I was at the 7pm show with a towel, getting odd looks from the rest of the group I was in who hadn't read the books. I don't care. I'm the kind of frood who knows where his towel is.
I liked this Marvin. His appearance looked good with the rest of the film. On the Heart of Gold he was just another piece of furniture, on the Vogon planet he was in stark contrast to everything else, and his head/brain was the size of a planet.
All right, a very small planet. Would you believe a moon?
Marvin's lines consistantly got the laugh-out-loud moments from the audience ("Here I am, brain the size...", "This will only end in tears", etc...).
It was really Marvin and Zaphod's movie.
My father was a Unionized employee, and actually was part of the UAW hierarchy. He didn't believe it all, but since it was a requirement he had to push the propaganda. I can guess what it'd say:
*screws on hat tightly, to cut off circulation to brain*
"Union Cable Layers would have been trained as apprentices in this kind of work, and received whatever other training was necessary for local building codes, etc...
Your average Joe would do a slipshod job and your cabling would be sub-standard and not work as well. In addition, an untrained cable-monkey might lay cables in places that were dangerous to the rest of the building structures (across high voltage, etc..) and possibly causing disaster and lawsuits. You wouldn't want that, would you?
And if you even think of doing this yourself, expect to get a visit from the brotherhood of Electricians, Cable Layers and Egg Candlers Local 547."
Ahem.
Vonage is going to lose so hard on this one, and it's a good thing to get this out of the way early. I'm really an anti-government-involvement and anti-regulatory person, but I still can't see where they have any leg to stand on.
911 is an emergency tool like any other. First aid kits, fire extinguishers, and pull-handle fire alarms. Phones are emergency communication devices, just like those red pull-handles in buildings. The fact that pay phones and deactivated cell phones are required to be able to dial 911 is the final nail in Vonage's coffin.
If there's a fire I have to: 1. Break Glass/Open Cabinet, 2. Read Terms of Service, 3. Discover that this handle I'm about to pull is non-functional because the emergency service hasn't been properly activated... Then expect to be sued into the stone age by everyone who gets hurt in the fire, and lose. Badly.
The fact that you've informed me that some of the phones on the premises may not be properly functioning emergency communication devices doesn't absolve you of any liability at all.
I'm honestly surprised at the Slashdotters who rush to Vonage's defense on technical grounds that IP doesn't allow proper location. There are *many* ways of finding out where the phone is. Some technical (GPS receivers in the IP/Analog unit transmits last known location) and some not (first call from new IP address, you talk to a human to establish your physical location). Shame on you. Fix your broken technological marvels.
The point is, that for emergencies we've been training people since the late 70's to pick up a phone and dial 911. Adults and more importantly *kids* know to do this.
The 911 system must work regardless of what kind of legitimate phone-device a person picks up.
For those of us that occasionally program in C# with .NET this is a bigger pain that you know. The two most descriptive keywords of the programming environment really are meaningless nothing-words in the Web's (normally) best search engine.
Yes, but there's also a strong voice of Slashdot naysayers indicating that she's making a strong connection between modern species of C. prisca and an insect encased in amber. The researcher is claiming that this "almost identical" specimen from 70 million years ago exhibits the same behavioral and physiological responses to cold/lack of sun as a modern day species based on compartive anatomy. That's quite a leap.
[There is more elaboration on this point, by other posters, elsewhere on this thread...]
The C. prisca "ancestors" found may have had an evolved response to cold and lack of sunlight like modern cold-weather honeybees -- possibly as a response to high volcanic activity. For modern tropical honeybees, this feature wasn't needed and was later dropped.
Frankly, without reviving those bees from the amber there's no way of telling if they could survive the cold or no, and the researcher is talking through her hat.
I'll bite. The baby (Jack-Jack) burst into flames when being carted away by the villian. (Flames, then metal?, then turned into some kind of demon-baby...)