Oh, I wouldn't say they're completely useless. If we could get all the tree-huggers to use a.eco address, it would be very convenient for filtering them out.
HIPPA is the law, and organizations with a duty to protect patient confidentiality don't have the option of basing their security policies on wishful thinking.
Given time, the electronics needed to measure where you're looking, the distance to it and adjusting the focus will be built in to the glasses.
The auto-focus electronics and actuators already exist for cameras, and they're pretty fast. All we'd need to add is the sensor to determine where you're looking.
Yes... in block-structured formatting, this sort of thing is somewhat to be expected.
Umm... NO.
We're talking about WISYWG editing, and every word processor before MS word, including MacWrite and the first multi-font text editors at Xerox, got it right. MS botched it, and since that time, far too many people have accepted their lame excuses.
If I wanted the whole paragraph to have the heading's attributes, then I would select the paragraph, and apply the style. Inserting or deleting characters should never affect the font characteristics of existing characters.
Politicians however look at it and say "Bah! Nobody needs nunna that thar book lernin'!
Actually, politicians tend to say "EVERYONE deserves all the schooling they can get, even if we have to bleed every working man and woman dry to subsidize it."
There was a time when it was possible to work your way through college as a waiter or a hospital orderly. That was before the government started shovelling money into our universities.
I also find that employment agencies don't have a clue what an engineering degree actually means.
I'd say that's true for nearly all of the high-volume body shops, but I've found a handful of headhunters in my career who actually did understand the fields they were recruiting for.
Back when it first showed up on the Mac, I found that if you have a heading and a paragraph with different font characteristics, and you place the cursor before the first character in the paragraph, and then hit backspace and delete the newline between the heading and the paragraph, the whole paragraph suddenly gets the heading's text attributes.
Since that time, several Microsoft apologists have tried to tell me that it's supposed to work like that. Sorry, but if I can affect the typeface ahead of the cursor by hitting backspace, that's a monumental fuck up by the software vendor.
I take it by "colleague" you mean "guy whose trash bin you used to empty every night."
Good heavens! Implying that I'm a menial laborer? What a devastating put-down. Truly, you are a master of rhetoric, who dazzles everyone around you with your sheer brilliance. Have you considered running for elected office? I'm sure you could devastate anyone in a debate.
Making the front cover of Time means your product is better?
No, it means that Anil was incorrect when he claimed that the secrecy doesn't have a benefit to Apple in free publicity. Try to read for comprehension.
Note the vanes on the side of the vehicle. They're taking some of the force of the air flowing downward to create a countervailing torque.
In theory, you could do the same kind of thing with a helicopter, but stator vanes to cancel the torque effect would be terribly unwieldy compared to a tail rotor.
When I started working at Apple, a colleague in product marketing explained to me exactly what the secrecy was worth to the company, in dollar terms.
Apple got the cover of time magazine when the iMac G4 came out. Apple got that coverage, because they had something to offer to Time, and they had it to offer because of the diligence with which they maintained secrecy. You can't buy Time's front cover as an ad placement. If you could, it's easily worth tens of millions of dollars. Your claim that Apple doesn't get free press due to the secrecy is complete nonsense.
The rest of your list is basically pulled out of your ass.
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Oh, I wouldn't say they're completely useless. If we could get all the tree-huggers to use a .eco address, it would be very convenient for filtering them out.
-jcr
we do what we do because it benefits us.
Or at least because we believe it does.
-jcr
It is estimated that since 1997 MS has earned some $92 billion in profits and avoided $528 million in taxes.
So, they've got better accountants and lawyers than software developers, it would seem. Not surprising, really.
-jcr
a whole lot of money being spent on the non-academic parts of colleges.
Sounds like a bubble economy at work. Gotta get those warm bodies signed up, to keep the tuition flowing in.
-jcr
However, once you know the block formatting scheme that Word uses, you expect this sort of behavior.
Yes, I know that people have gotten used to it. That doesn't excuse botching it.
-jcr
HIPPA is the law, and organizations with a duty to protect patient confidentiality don't have the option of basing their security policies on wishful thinking.
-jcr
The trend over the last decade has been very much along the lines of reducing the money that goes to education
As they say over at Wikipedia, [citation needed].
-jcr
Given time, the electronics needed to measure where you're looking, the distance to it and adjusting the focus will be built in to the glasses.
The auto-focus electronics and actuators already exist for cameras, and they're pretty fast. All we'd need to add is the sensor to determine where you're looking.
-jcr
Yes... in block-structured formatting, this sort of thing is somewhat to be expected.
Umm... NO.
We're talking about WISYWG editing, and every word processor before MS word, including MacWrite and the first multi-font text editors at Xerox, got it right. MS botched it, and since that time, far too many people have accepted their lame excuses.
If I wanted the whole paragraph to have the heading's attributes, then I would select the paragraph, and apply the style. Inserting or deleting characters should never affect the font characteristics of existing characters.
-jcr
Politicians however look at it and say "Bah! Nobody needs nunna that thar book lernin'!
Actually, politicians tend to say "EVERYONE deserves all the schooling they can get, even if we have to bleed every working man and woman dry to subsidize it."
There was a time when it was possible to work your way through college as a waiter or a hospital orderly. That was before the government started shovelling money into our universities.
-jcr
I also find that employment agencies don't have a clue what an engineering degree actually means.
I'd say that's true for nearly all of the high-volume body shops, but I've found a handful of headhunters in my career who actually did understand the fields they were recruiting for.
-jcr
Are you trying to make some kind of point?
-jcr
Look, I'm usually a calm and rational sort of guy, but I hate that effin' program.
Hating MS word is an entirely rational response to its flaws.
-jcr
Back when it first showed up on the Mac, I found that if you have a heading and a paragraph with different font characteristics, and you place the cursor before the first character in the paragraph, and then hit backspace and delete the newline between the heading and the paragraph, the whole paragraph suddenly gets the heading's text attributes.
Since that time, several Microsoft apologists have tried to tell me that it's supposed to work like that. Sorry, but if I can affect the typeface ahead of the cursor by hitting backspace, that's a monumental fuck up by the software vendor.
-jcr
A video game of The Old Man and the Sea would suck even worse than the book.
-jcr
I guess in the next year or two, it will be "spot the non-fed."
-jcr
He also indicated that he tried to write mp3's directly to the disc... this guy lacks clue.
I've seen the type many times. He's proud of memorizing needless complexity, and he bitches when there's a simpler way to do something.
-jcr
I take it by "colleague" you mean "guy whose trash bin you used to empty every night."
Good heavens! Implying that I'm a menial laborer? What a devastating put-down. Truly, you are a master of rhetoric, who dazzles everyone around you with your sheer brilliance. Have you considered running for elected office? I'm sure you could devastate anyone in a debate.
-jcr
Making the front cover of Time means your product is better?
No, it means that Anil was incorrect when he claimed that the secrecy doesn't have a benefit to Apple in free publicity. Try to read for comprehension.
-jcr
I think jcr was being less eloquent and more fanatic than Anil
I don't see how you can claim that either of us was "fanatic". Do you know what the word means?
-jcr
how do they cancel the spin?
Note the vanes on the side of the vehicle. They're taking some of the force of the air flowing downward to create a countervailing torque.
In theory, you could do the same kind of thing with a helicopter, but stator vanes to cancel the torque effect would be terribly unwieldy compared to a tail rotor.
-jcr
ever since Steve left NeXT
You're a little fuzzy on your history, there. Does the word "merger" mean anything to you?
-jcr
it took me 45 minutes to figure out how to play music on the damn thing
It took you 45 minutes to figure out how to use an iPod, and you're somehow capable of using a web browser and navigating to /.?
I've given iPods to little kids who've figured them out in about as much time as it took to connect the USB cable.
-jcr
Anil,
When I started working at Apple, a colleague in product marketing explained to me exactly what the secrecy was worth to the company, in dollar terms.
Apple got the cover of time magazine when the iMac G4 came out. Apple got that coverage, because they had something to offer to Time, and they had it to offer because of the diligence with which they maintained secrecy. You can't buy Time's front cover as an ad placement. If you could, it's easily worth tens of millions of dollars. Your claim that Apple doesn't get free press due to the secrecy is complete nonsense.
The rest of your list is basically pulled out of your ass.
-jcr
That would be precisely why it's so popular as a basis for public policy.
-jcr