How about a control for choosing the comment thresholds for a story that works well with touch interfaces? The slider that is there now requires to click and drag, which is not possible without a mouse. I am sure a lot of people read slashdot on their tablets and phones and would appreciate that.
I actually like the lack of free food now: it motivates me to buy food before departure and I usually end up with something better than the typical airline food.
That said, I feel that it's not a free market but a rip-off when there is no price competition for these services. When you compare the tickets, none of the sites show you the price of the meal next to the price of the ticket.
Unions are leeches sucking the lifeblood out of this nation. Before the invention of labor laws, they were a necessary evil. Now they are an unnecessary evil often run by the mafia or other organized criminal organizations (yes, even today) and they exist to secure special rights for some individuals when what is truly needed is labor laws which cover all employees.
There needs to be a distinction between unions in the private sector for workers without very specialized skills - necessary to prevent imbalance of power in negotiations - and the public sector unions. The latter ones are a problem since the employers (governments, school districts, etc.) do not have much incentive to extract the best possible deal from the union.
Add to that campaign contributions and huge cost of a strike - since public sector employees provide many essential services - and you get a huge imbalance of power that is just as bad as exploitation of workers by the management.
You are right. For movies to be really enjoyable, the directors need to choose whether to use 3D or shallow depth of field - but not both.
It also seems that only some people find it annoying. Many people do not find anything wrong with the current 3D movies.
Mirror is flat, but it faithfully reflects everything in front of it, so the eye can still focus on the objects that are near and the objects that are far.
That's a good question. It seems that something inside our head has evolved or learned to turn off auto-focus when looking at 2D images of 3D objects. But when we see a stereo picture, the auto-focus is back on, and fails miserably.
They are planiing to adjust meter rates based on availaility of spaces, so that at any time only about 85% of them are occupied.
This will make it unaffordable for some people - but it is still better than not finding any parking even though it's all cheap.
At least Daimler Benz has already realized their mistake and sold Chrysler, so that they can continue making Mercedeses.
It would be strange for Apple to repeat their mistake.
It is not a choice - it's a metabolic and psychological desease. It's addiction to bad food.
Non-obese person culd go to a dinner with friends or a potluck and eat very little - and not feel bad at all. For obese person, seeing all that food is too much to handle.
Now, as I understand from the Comcast sales rep, the only way to get that device is to upgrade to a more expansive cable package, which includes SDTV channels such as ESPN, MTV, etc, and naturally costs more. The sales rep probably lied to you to convince you to get Expanded Basic. I got the cable box for $5 a month, while having Limited Basic package. Also, if you can pick up the box at their office and plug it in yourself, you do not have to pay installation fee.
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How about a control for choosing the comment thresholds for a story that works well with touch interfaces? The slider that is there now requires to click and drag, which is not possible without a mouse. I am sure a lot of people read slashdot on their tablets and phones and would appreciate that.
Don't forget AT&T's own Pay As You Go operation. 10c/min and 500 MB for $25 that rolls over if you add at least $5 worth of data every month.
I actually like the lack of free food now: it motivates me to buy food before departure and I usually end up with something better than the typical airline food.
That said, I feel that it's not a free market but a rip-off when there is no price competition for these services. When you compare the tickets, none of the sites show you the price of the meal next to the price of the ticket.
For example, I don't yet know of an easy "Yahoo Mail Offline" app.
Yahoo Mail unofficially enabled IMAP, since forcing mobile users to read mail in a browser was not working well. Details here:
http://guillaumeb.com/ym/imap.html
Unions are leeches sucking the lifeblood out of this nation. Before the invention of labor laws, they were a necessary evil. Now they are an unnecessary evil often run by the mafia or other organized criminal organizations (yes, even today) and they exist to secure special rights for some individuals when what is truly needed is labor laws which cover all employees.
There needs to be a distinction between unions in the private sector for workers without very specialized skills - necessary to prevent imbalance of power in negotiations - and the public sector unions. The latter ones are a problem since the employers (governments, school districts, etc.) do not have much incentive to extract the best possible deal from the union.
Add to that campaign contributions and huge cost of a strike - since public sector employees provide many essential services - and you get a huge imbalance of power that is just as bad as exploitation of workers by the management.
You are right. For movies to be really enjoyable, the directors need to choose whether to use 3D or shallow depth of field - but not both. It also seems that only some people find it annoying. Many people do not find anything wrong with the current 3D movies.
Mirror is flat, but it faithfully reflects everything in front of it, so the eye can still focus on the objects that are near and the objects that are far.
That's a good question. It seems that something inside our head has evolved or learned to turn off auto-focus when looking at 2D images of 3D objects. But when we see a stereo picture, the auto-focus is back on, and fails miserably.
They are planiing to adjust meter rates based on availaility of spaces, so that at any time only about 85% of them are occupied. This will make it unaffordable for some people - but it is still better than not finding any parking even though it's all cheap.
At least Daimler Benz has already realized their mistake and sold Chrysler, so that they can continue making Mercedeses. It would be strange for Apple to repeat their mistake.
Actually, clinical MR images rarely go beyond 512x512x200.
Today they talked about why Watch Now is not avalable for Macs on their blog:o n-mac-firefox-and.html
http://blog.netflix.com/2007/08/instant-watching-
According to them it's because there are no publicly available DRM systems for the Mac that the studios recognize.
It is not a choice - it's a metabolic and psychological desease. It's addiction to bad food.
Non-obese person culd go to a dinner with friends or a potluck and eat very little - and not feel bad at all. For obese person, seeing all that food is too much to handle.