Well thanks for correcting that - I shudder to think what would've happened if I continued to not know about annoying internet thing A's thoughts on annoying internet thing B.
Let me summarize the obvious: reflective display, not an LCD, ie you can actually read on it; first more-or-less practical generation of a new technology, as with everything else in the entire history of all technology, price will come down as it becomes more popular.
"It's likely that you have this, although I can't say for certain. Here are the pros and cons of the treatments. Now what would you like to do?"
Gods would I love it if any doctor I ever had did that!
It should really be the first question on the forms you fill out when signing up with a new doctor - "Would you like: a) Bullshit Feelgoodery or b) Rational explanation of available evidence (ie you are a grown-up who accepts that the world is not a perfect place)?" Seems like it would make life much easier for everybody.
A lot of people base their debt payments upon the salary level with out much gap between them.
If that's true, then a lot of people are complete idiots. It really doesn't seem logical that employers should factor in their employees' overspending when making these kinds of decisions.
Seems like a stretch - it's not incompetent companies that tend to lag behind on IE (and Windows, and Office, etc) adoption, it's large companies. The larger the company, the more inertia there is.
Hey, there's benefits to that too - I may have to target all my development to IE6, but at least nobody's forcing me to "upgrade" to Vista.
Options are good, but I don't want to spend all my time looking at options when it comes to entertainment. Just let me plug in and VEG!
So what's the problem? It's not like TV is going anywhere.
Or does the mere existence of other options interfere with your vegging?
(For the record, some people appreciate the ability to cut down on their vegging-oriented entertainment, and still watch the one or two shows they actually like)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but these days the term "Darwinism" refers to a 19th century understanding of evolution, specifically to distinguish it from modern evolutionary theory.
The only people who use "Darwinism" to mean "theory of evolution" are creationists.
You may or may not be right. The wiki article you linked doesn't make clear if tsaritsa means only tsar's wife or a ruler on its own.
The article actually says in the first sentence that it can mean both. It doesn't come up as much, though, because most of the famous female rulers of Russia were in the 18th century, when the official titles were Emperor/Empress (though Tsar kinda stuck around in foreign translations).
- recorded music is a convenience, it in no way impinges on the popularity of live music
- instruments and synthesizers allow you to create music that you could not create otherwise
- likewise for the recording process
- no idea how the last one is relevant to anything
On the other hand, the only "improvement" that Auto-Tune and its ilk provide is to allow people to pretend that they can do something that otherwise requires a lot more skill than they have. The difference from your examples is that it's just a crutch, it doesn't add anything new to the process.
Maybe nobody should care; maybe if it's something that can be done mechanistically, then there is no value in actually being able to do it. Still, it does seems weird to shower the performers with millions of dollars if Auto-Tune is doing all the work.
I don't know, maybe because it's something called "Drizzle"?
Actually, having read the Wiki page, I'm not sure what the point of that project is. They seem to want to roll back all the progress that MySQL has made in the last couple of years towards becoming a useful database, and go back to 3.x/4.x days.
So, it's MySQL with even less features, but faster - don't we already have a BerkeleyDB?
We still need to find a way to get Ego out of science. Without having every crackpot idea be seriously considered.
I love how people want science to be this pure ethereal thing, for some reason. Of course research is ruled by the egos of those involved, just like every single other human endeavor. Why would you expect it to be an exception?
I'm surprised Google isn't putting up cash for an endowment that will allow the "singularity university" to pick students based on merit instead of means.
The main difficulty is measuring "merit" in "bullshit".
What type of experience would you say is indicative that you will do well in Fellating Ray Kurzweil 101?
It is a phenomenon whereby a person will cringe after finding out that they accidentally clicked a pdf, and now have to wait 20 seconds for adobe to load.
There's a great variation on this: before double-clicking the PDF file you want to open, you hold down 'shift' to have it skip the useless plug-in loading, but you don't notice that another file in the directory was already highlighted - depending on the number of files in the directory, you are now waiting for several dozen instances of Acrobat to load (among other things).
The "adobe acrobat eye-stab" would be an appropriate name for this phenomenon.
why on earth aren't some of them using trackpoint/eraserhead/clit/whatever controllers instead?
I'll take the world's worst trackpad over a nipple-mouse any day. For the record, the world's worst trackpad is the one on Acer's Aspire One netbook (still better than the nipple).
Even the anonymous submitter can't muster up a more flattering adjective for the author than "prolific" - I'm sure I am about to enjoy a quality article.
as it is thanks to Mozilla taking IE behaviour into account and accomodating for that in their own software, AFAIK.
I'm not sure I agree with that, the Mozilla people have always been pretty adamant about not bending their standards implementations to accommodate IE "quirks" - Free Software developers take their ideological purity pretty seriously.
It's a moot point anyway, nowadays almost no one would consider releasing an IE-only site - the "alternative" browsers claim 30% in some countries, but even if it was 10% or 5%, it still represents customers that you can't afford to just ignore (I think that attitude is the real change here - there's money to be made, and every user counts).
And in truth, web designers with a clue still need to limit their options too much in order to remain IE-compatible.
Certainly agree with that - it's even more fun when you have the corporate-mandated IE6 as your primary user-base!
As soon as IE goes below 20%, at least we can finally justify not giving a crap about what our designs look like in IE, put up a warning message saying "Get a browser that supports web standards." and be done with it.
Yeah, not so much - see above. At the very least, designers "with a clue" have their stuff degrade gracefully on legacy platforms.
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Well thanks for correcting that - I shudder to think what would've happened if I continued to not know about annoying internet thing A's thoughts on annoying internet thing B.
Seriously? Every time with this shit?
Let me summarize the obvious: reflective display, not an LCD, ie you can actually read on it; first more-or-less practical generation of a new technology, as with everything else in the entire history of all technology, price will come down as it becomes more popular.
What is so fiendishly difficult to grasp?
"It's likely that you have this, although I can't say for certain. Here are the pros and cons of the treatments. Now what would you like to do?"
Gods would I love it if any doctor I ever had did that!
It should really be the first question on the forms you fill out when signing up with a new doctor - "Would you like: a) Bullshit Feelgoodery or b) Rational explanation of available evidence (ie you are a grown-up who accepts that the world is not a perfect place)?" Seems like it would make life much easier for everybody.
A lot of people base their debt payments upon the salary level with out much gap between them.
If that's true, then a lot of people are complete idiots. It really doesn't seem logical that employers should factor in their employees' overspending when making these kinds of decisions.
But grid-tie won't help at all when the grid goes down.
It also won't help if your phone is disconnected or your house catches fire - what's your point?
The question was whether it makes economic sense, not if it's better than the power grid.
I wouldn't say they are unrelated: one is a thousand hours of the other.
What will we line the bottom of the bird cage with?
Kindle 1s?
Bash?
Thousands of movies have been made about poverty in India.
Slumdog Millionaire is not about poverty in India.
Academy Awards are not give based on choice of subject matter or quantity (well, usually).
Yes, people usually tend to see movies made in their own Hemisphere.
Movies about things blowing up (including the Die Hard oeuvre) are also extremely popular in the US.
Seems like a stretch - it's not incompetent companies that tend to lag behind on IE (and Windows, and Office, etc) adoption, it's large companies. The larger the company, the more inertia there is.
Hey, there's benefits to that too - I may have to target all my development to IE6, but at least nobody's forcing me to "upgrade" to Vista.
I can only conclude that the review community has become jaded towards the genre.
Gee, you think? After all, this is the genre where, apparently, "being close to a wall" is a groundbreaking innovation.
Plenty of FPSs are fun, but they're all essentially the same game - there's only so much that reviewers can find to talk about.
Your connection also seems to be dropping all of your punctuation characters. Very annoying problem to have.
Options are good, but I don't want to spend all my time looking at options when it comes to entertainment. Just let me plug in and VEG!
So what's the problem? It's not like TV is going anywhere.
Or does the mere existence of other options interfere with your vegging?
(For the record, some people appreciate the ability to cut down on their vegging-oriented entertainment, and still watch the one or two shows they actually like)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but these days the term "Darwinism" refers to a 19th century understanding of evolution, specifically to distinguish it from modern evolutionary theory.
The only people who use "Darwinism" to mean "theory of evolution" are creationists.
Surely it's Mod +1 Creepy?
You may or may not be right. The wiki article you linked doesn't make clear if tsaritsa means only tsar's wife or a ruler on its own.
The article actually says in the first sentence that it can mean both. It doesn't come up as much, though, because most of the famous female rulers of Russia were in the 18th century, when the official titles were Emperor/Empress (though Tsar kinda stuck around in foreign translations).
- recorded music is a convenience, it in no way impinges on the popularity of live music
- instruments and synthesizers allow you to create music that you could not create otherwise
- likewise for the recording process
- no idea how the last one is relevant to anything
On the other hand, the only "improvement" that Auto-Tune and its ilk provide is to allow people to pretend that they can do something that otherwise requires a lot more skill than they have. The difference from your examples is that it's just a crutch, it doesn't add anything new to the process.
Maybe nobody should care; maybe if it's something that can be done mechanistically, then there is no value in actually being able to do it. Still, it does seems weird to shower the performers with millions of dollars if Auto-Tune is doing all the work.
I don't know, maybe because it's something called "Drizzle"?
Actually, having read the Wiki page, I'm not sure what the point of that project is. They seem to want to roll back all the progress that MySQL has made in the last couple of years towards becoming a useful database, and go back to 3.x/4.x days.
So, it's MySQL with even less features, but faster - don't we already have a BerkeleyDB?
We still need to find a way to get Ego out of science. Without having every crackpot idea be seriously considered.
I love how people want science to be this pure ethereal thing, for some reason. Of course research is ruled by the egos of those involved, just like every single other human endeavor. Why would you expect it to be an exception?
I'm surprised Google isn't putting up cash for an endowment that will allow the "singularity university" to pick students based on merit instead of means.
The main difficulty is measuring "merit" in "bullshit".
What type of experience would you say is indicative that you will do well in Fellating Ray Kurzweil 101?
So, I can now pay $25,000 to have Will Wright teach me about the "Singularity"?
Awesome. That was just about the only thing missing from my life.
It is a phenomenon whereby a person will cringe after finding out that they accidentally clicked a pdf, and now have to wait 20 seconds for adobe to load.
There's a great variation on this: before double-clicking the PDF file you want to open, you hold down 'shift' to have it skip the useless plug-in loading, but you don't notice that another file in the directory was already highlighted - depending on the number of files in the directory, you are now waiting for several dozen instances of Acrobat to load (among other things).
The "adobe acrobat eye-stab" would be an appropriate name for this phenomenon.
why on earth aren't some of them using trackpoint/eraserhead/clit/whatever controllers instead?
I'll take the world's worst trackpad over a nipple-mouse any day. For the record, the world's worst trackpad is the one on Acer's Aspire One netbook (still better than the nipple).
Even the anonymous submitter can't muster up a more flattering adjective for the author than "prolific" - I'm sure I am about to enjoy a quality article.
as it is thanks to Mozilla taking IE behaviour into account and accomodating for that in their own software, AFAIK.
I'm not sure I agree with that, the Mozilla people have always been pretty adamant about not bending their standards implementations to accommodate IE "quirks" - Free Software developers take their ideological purity pretty seriously.
It's a moot point anyway, nowadays almost no one would consider releasing an IE-only site - the "alternative" browsers claim 30% in some countries, but even if it was 10% or 5%, it still represents customers that you can't afford to just ignore (I think that attitude is the real change here - there's money to be made, and every user counts).
And in truth, web designers with a clue still need to limit their options too much in order to remain IE-compatible.
Certainly agree with that - it's even more fun when you have the corporate-mandated IE6 as your primary user-base!
As soon as IE goes below 20%, at least we can finally justify not giving a crap about what our designs look like in IE, put up a warning message saying "Get a browser that supports web standards." and be done with it.
Yeah, not so much - see above. At the very least, designers "with a clue" have their stuff degrade gracefully on legacy platforms.