It is trivial to observe that statism increases along with the world population. Or are you anticipating a sudden reversion to tribal anarchy?
I'm sure you got these round the wrong way, as anyone who really know anything about anarchism knows that statism is the more tribal/primative system (well, there are primative types of anarchism, but it's not the most common).
Statism doesn't require much more than a way to trick, manipulate people and an iron fist.
People who are afraid of genetic manipulation are also the same people afraid of cloning. They usually read or have read too many sci-fi books or watched too many sci-fi movies to understand that we could actually make HUGE benefits in health science and medicine.
Really? In my experience, both Sci-fi buffs and scientists are on both sides of the fence. But I get the impresison that most of the fear is comming from scientists and other people who are following GE research.
Of course you can just as easily cut your steak with a knife and fork as you can stab and eat someone to death with the same utensils anyway - does that mean we shouldn't eat with a knife and fork anymore?
Are you really trying to compare the consequences of GE gone bad with the sanity of people while using eating utensils ?
As far as I know, the act of stabbing someone with a knife and then eating them is rare and not very contagious--In general, not some thing to worry about because when it does happen it doesn't pose a risk to the rest of humanity.
Genetic engineering is the only thing that can reliably prevent such famines.
The only thing causing famines are human politics. We could easly prevent famine with old technologies if society really wanted to. The reason famines exist is simple because people don't care. That's the plain and simple truth.
GE may be helpful, but it's not magic bullet in terms of preventing famine.
You believe that intelligent people are superior, Hitler believed that that Aryon(?) race was superior. The key thing here is not why something is superior. It's the fact that you simply beleive that there is something superior, and that the inferior are better off gone.
Now, since you are not suggesting that we rally up all the "stupid" people and kill them. There is quite a big differece here. But the principle remains, and I'd tread very cautiously with your idea.
Also, exaclty what is supidity? Intelligent people do stupid things all the time.
You should listen to yourself in the last paragraph more than the first two.
Humans are incredibly complex. And we are nowhere near complete in understanding ourselves. Tinkering with GE is like an inexperience programmer tinking with the Linux kernal source code.
But atleast if you introduce a bug into the system and it get distributed to 1,000,000 computers, they can always do a roll-back.
The point was that somethings have previously been thought of as being safe, when infact they were not as safe as we were lead to be belived. And it pays to do a bit more research in to the possible health effects before we go full-steam-ahead in to research.
Apple needs a new document tab widget, that is meant for user documents, and that can closed, rearraged, or even pulled off turned into a new window, or dragged into an existing window (a bit like photoshop pallete).
That way, we can have realy nice, usable tabs, without abusing the Apple UI guidlines.
What they probably mean, is that you can create a document with restrictions.
I suspect however, that all verisons will have DRM to obey any restrictions on a document.
Yes. But Apple is buying Universal. In other words. Universal will be Apple's. It will probably be able to do whatever it wants with it. Sony Music and Sony Electronics are probably in more of a merger situation. Of course, one has wonder how much longer that will last since Sony Electroncis brings in the most $.
I'm a web designer. And I consider myself the pixel perfectionist type. But I don't find the lines too bad. Occasionaly they're a bit annoying. But most of the time I don't even notice them.
I think the key is to ignore them from the start. Else you'll notice them everytime your eye scans by them, and you'll go insane and turn into a laughing maniac.
BTW. The lines are very thin. Much thinner that a pixel. And they're only noticable on a plain, non-dark background.
Of course they just trying to protect themselves. But against what exactly? It makes it very clear that they can do what they want with any data that passes through their systems. I don't care about their intentions or if they're trying to avoid lawsuits.
If it is poor wording. It's very, very poor at it should have been fixed by now. And they should notify their customers about these things.
Yes, they have decreased in quality. This is just a normal part of capitalist companys in a competitive market. Please ingnore it and continue to consume our products.
If fascism is sililar to socialims, then they must also be smilar to capitalism and communism. In capitalism you are expected to sacrafice for company. In communism, you are expected to sacrifice for community;)
Re:Basically, a GIVE ME BACK MY OS 9 article
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he loses credibility. Not because labels are a bad thing, they're a good thing, and I'd like to have them too, along with other metadata improvements; but labels have no connection whatsoever with the spatial metaphor he's talking about in his "spatial finder" rant: one does not normally label a doorknob.
First, I think you missed the point he stated at the begining that many people think that a spatial UI has to be a metaphore to something in real life. Hence your doornob argument is irrelivent.
Secondly. Why wouldn't you want to color code a doornob or a door? If you had a long hallway, with many doors, color coding some of them may be of use. Especialy things like toilets or emergencey exits (which are quite oftern color coded and/or labeled).
Anything he says that goes beyond OS 9 is basically just a linear improvement on OS 9, like an OS 10 might have been, rather than a NeXT operating system.
That might have been a good point if you had mentioned, let alone try and prove that Next had a better GUI. But since you didn't I'm not really sure what your point is. Shold we be re-inventing the wheel instead of improving upon something that already works?
Too bad, as I would love to see a good, original article on improving the UI.
Too bad, as I would love to see a proper discussion on/. about GUIs that wasn't dominated by people saying the CLI is better or misinterperating concepts on GUIs and usability.
Perhaps you took the quote to literaly? It's about wondering to trust something that affects/has control over you (the impression the image gives you).
The point is. Should you saftly put you trust in the photo jounalism industry?
I really doubt that this was for military propaganda on anyside. I think a few people here are trying to make too much out of it. The reason it was done is the simple fact that it's a better photo, and coveys what was going on better.
There probably was a point in time where the man was looking forward and the soldier holding his hand out--just like the composited photo. But he probably missed the shot.
This still doesn't excuse it though. For art, compositing is fine. For strictly photographic art. It's probably questionable and must be noted. For photo-journalism, it's a definite no-no.
Don't be so sure! Yes, it was front page news here. But any New Zealander should rememeber Forgoten Silver.
Peter Jackson is the king of pranks. Forgoten Silver was a fake documentry, about some old film that had been found, and contained footage of Pierce's first attempts at flight among other things. Lots of people bought it, and there where many pissed of people;)
I'm not sure you understand the context I'm talking in. I'm not suggesting replacing our language with icons or anything.
Icons should be used in addition with text to aid recognition (list of files with different file types, toolbars), and occasionly used by themselves when space is important (photoshop tool pallete, system tray), or even when language may be a barrier (road signs are a good example, sometimes only becasue people recognize it (stop signs), other times because it's describing something (people crossing a road)).
The reason why icons can oftern be better than words in terms of fast regongition is because icons can be made more unique than a word. A word can only be made up from a combination of set, common letters in which you can't choose the combination of.
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Young girls are reputed to have adapted to telephone, cellphone, and instant-message use more rapidly and more fully than boys, for example.
I doubt it very much. I think it's more likly that females communicate more, and therefore adapt quicker to these technologies.
I'm sure you got these round the wrong way, as anyone who really know anything about anarchism knows that statism is the more tribal/primative system (well, there are primative types of anarchism, but it's not the most common).
Statism doesn't require much more than a way to trick, manipulate people and an iron fist.
I do however, agree with the rest of your post.
They denied buying Universal. They didn't say they would never have anything to do with Universal. Read between the lines.
Really? In my experience, both Sci-fi buffs and scientists are on both sides of the fence. But I get the impresison that most of the fear is comming from scientists and other people who are following GE research.
Of course you can just as easily cut your steak with a knife and fork as you can stab and eat someone to death with the same utensils anyway - does that mean we shouldn't eat with a knife and fork anymore?
Are you really trying to compare the consequences of GE gone bad with the sanity of people while using eating utensils ?
As far as I know, the act of stabbing someone with a knife and then eating them is rare and not very contagious--In general, not some thing to worry about because when it does happen it doesn't pose a risk to the rest of humanity.
The only thing causing famines are human politics. We could easly prevent famine with old technologies if society really wanted to. The reason famines exist is simple because people don't care. That's the plain and simple truth.
GE may be helpful, but it's not magic bullet in terms of preventing famine.
You believe that intelligent people are superior, Hitler believed that that Aryon(?) race was superior. The key thing here is not why something is superior. It's the fact that you simply beleive that there is something superior, and that the inferior are better off gone.
Now, since you are not suggesting that we rally up all the "stupid" people and kill them. There is quite a big differece here. But the principle remains, and I'd tread very cautiously with your idea.
Also, exaclty what is supidity? Intelligent people do stupid things all the time.
Hitler would be proud...
Humans are incredibly complex. And we are nowhere near complete in understanding ourselves. Tinkering with GE is like an inexperience programmer tinking with the Linux kernal source code.
But atleast if you introduce a bug into the system and it get distributed to 1,000,000 computers, they can always do a roll-back.
The point was that somethings have previously been thought of as being safe, when infact they were not as safe as we were lead to be belived. And it pays to do a bit more research in to the possible health effects before we go full-steam-ahead in to research.
I must have missed the meeting were we decided that all nano machines must be designed for medical use and applied by inhale/ingest.
Apple needs a new document tab widget, that is meant for user documents, and that can closed, rearraged, or even pulled off turned into a new window, or dragged into an existing window (a bit like photoshop pallete).
That way, we can have realy nice, usable tabs, without abusing the Apple UI guidlines.
What they probably mean, is that you can create a document with restrictions.
I suspect however, that all verisons will have DRM to obey any restrictions on a document.
Actually, your point about XML also applies to XSL. XSL isn't just for presentation. It's a data/XML proccesing language really.
Yes. But Apple is buying Universal. In other words. Universal will be Apple's. It will probably be able to do whatever it wants with it. Sony Music and Sony Electronics are probably in more of a merger situation. Of course, one has wonder how much longer that will last since Sony Electroncis brings in the most $.
I think the key is to ignore them from the start. Else you'll notice them everytime your eye scans by them, and you'll go insane and turn into a laughing maniac.
BTW. The lines are very thin. Much thinner that a pixel. And they're only noticable on a plain, non-dark background.
Of course they just trying to protect themselves. But against what exactly? It makes it very clear that they can do what they want with any data that passes through their systems. I don't care about their intentions or if they're trying to avoid lawsuits.
If it is poor wording. It's very, very poor at it should have been fixed by now. And they should notify their customers about these things.
Yes, they have decreased in quality. This is just a normal part of capitalist companys in a competitive market. Please ingnore it and continue to consume our products.
That's a mouthfull, so we could just replace it with a symbol. Perhaps '~'?
If fascism is sililar to socialims, then they must also be smilar to capitalism and communism. In capitalism you are expected to sacrafice for company. In communism, you are expected to sacrifice for community ;)
First, I think you missed the point he stated at the begining that many people think that a spatial UI has to be a metaphore to something in real life. Hence your doornob argument is irrelivent.
Secondly. Why wouldn't you want to color code a doornob or a door? If you had a long hallway, with many doors, color coding some of them may be of use. Especialy things like toilets or emergencey exits (which are quite oftern color coded and/or labeled).
Anything he says that goes beyond OS 9 is basically just a linear improvement on OS 9, like an OS 10 might have been, rather than a NeXT operating system.
That might have been a good point if you had mentioned, let alone try and prove that Next had a better GUI. But since you didn't I'm not really sure what your point is. Shold we be re-inventing the wheel instead of improving upon something that already works?
Too bad, as I would love to see a good, original article on improving the UI.
Too bad, as I would love to see a proper discussion on /. about GUIs that wasn't dominated by people saying the CLI is better or misinterperating concepts on GUIs and usability.
It's not just about safty nets. I could easly use a CLI if I had to. But I just find a GUI much easier and better to work in.
Perhaps you took the quote to literaly? It's about wondering to trust something that affects/has control over you (the impression the image gives you).
The point is. Should you saftly put you trust in the photo jounalism industry?
There probably was a point in time where the man was looking forward and the soldier holding his hand out--just like the composited photo. But he probably missed the shot.
This still doesn't excuse it though. For art, compositing is fine. For strictly photographic art. It's probably questionable and must be noted. For photo-journalism, it's a definite no-no.
Peter Jackson is the king of pranks. Forgoten Silver was a fake documentry, about some old film that had been found, and contained footage of Pierce's first attempts at flight among other things. Lots of people bought it, and there where many pissed of people ;)
Icons should be used in addition with text to aid recognition (list of files with different file types, toolbars), and occasionly used by themselves when space is important (photoshop tool pallete, system tray), or even when language may be a barrier (road signs are a good example, sometimes only becasue people recognize it (stop signs), other times because it's describing something (people crossing a road)).
The reason why icons can oftern be better than words in terms of fast regongition is because icons can be made more unique than a word. A word can only be made up from a combination of set, common letters in which you can't choose the combination of.