Dude, calm down. Perhaps if you took a break from your work once and again, you wouldn't be so stressed out. I work 50 hours a week on average, and sometimes in the middle of the day, I'll take a break from working (oh noes); sometimes when I've worked 4 12 hour days in a row, I'll take a day off, a weekday! Work is not slavery, nor servitude; you provide a product to your employer, for which you are duly compensated - that's it.
a search routine that would attempt to pick 5 records at random from a database containing potentially a billion records Yeah, I'd say an index wouldn't be much help in that situation. A monkey with a keyboard could probably handle it, though.
Indeed - in fact, if you've got one, I dust off an old dot-matrix printer and print it out on those perforated "spools" of paper they use - i find printed code much easier to read without arbitrary page breaks.
Indeed - in fact most scholars of Christianity trace the origin of "modern fundamentalism" (seems like an oxymoron, I know) to the Princeton Theological Seminary here in Princeton, NJ. To their credit, as an institution they've become friendlier to modern science - but if you want to point the finger, blame them.:P
If gravity were, in fact, a law, (i.e. the gravitational force exerted between two objects is, without exception, GM1M2/r^2), why would scientists be actively researching anti-gravity? Because gravity is just a theory - there may, in fact, be an as-yet-unobserved variable in that equation. Not to mention the fact that we really have no fucking clue as to *why* gravity occurs as we observe it.
"theory" is a misnomer when it comes to evolution I disagree. "theory" is perfectly apt for describing everything in science, be it evolution or gravitation. Calling it a "law" is, I think, dangerous as it projects the image that our understanding of the universe as framed in said laws is immutable, which is, of course, preposterous. The problem here is that creationists and scientists clearly disagree on the definition of the word "theory", and as anyone who's ever entered a heated debate knows, no meaningful discussion can be had when two parties disagree on fundamental definitions.
A theory in science is defined to be something that is both testable and falsifiable. Relativity, both special and general, is a *theory*. To this day, relativity is still known as the "theory of relativity" - in spite of the fact that there is solid, factual evidence to suggest that relativity is, in fact, a correct interpretation of the laws of physics at speeds approaching c and in gravitational fields. Creationism, or Intelligent Design, on the other hand, is not a theory. Why? Because it's not falsifiable - you can't definitively say "if life was created, we would not see [some property of life]" because the counter argument "because God made it that way" can always be made.
Oh, and ending a statement with "Think about it" does not strengthen your point.
The right to bare arms does not give you the right to have nuclear warheads No, but it does give people the right to wear hideous hawaiian shirts, which is almost as bad.
The designers did, in fact, assign a key combination for ejecting an optical disk. Oh wait, every single Apple keyboard since Macs started shipping with slot loading drives includes an "Eject" key. On third party keyboards that were not, specifically, made for Macs, holding down "F12" does the trick. The purpose of adding the mouse button ejection at boot was so that you could eject a disk from a powered down machine without waiting until it finishes booting. Also, the mouse button eject event fires before the machine starts to boot off the specified startup disk, so you can prevent booting from the cd in the drive by holding down the mouse button. You can also eject a disk from Disk Utility, the terminal ("drutil eject"), and the FInder (by dragging it to the trash, or by selecting the disk and hitting cmd-E).
Now admittedly, the lack of a completely manual, unpowered eject on the Matsushita slot loading drives is a design flaw - but that hardly has anything to do with UI design.
In other news, analysts say that the XBox 360 isn't ready for primetime in the corporate market. "Out of the box, all it does is play games," said one IT professional, "it won't even let you check email without installing a rootkit called 'Linux'." A security expert from Microsoft was quick to point out that, "when used as intended - the XBox 360 is very secure. When running a software firewall called 'Halo 3' and operated by a security technician who has earned the much touted 'Legendary' certification, you can rest assured your data is safe from parasitic aliens from outer space." Another security professional was less avid: "I think for now, the 360 should stay in the living room."
I believe that the reason you can see a green laser beam is because that wavelength of light is not readily absorbed by water molecules in the air, thus some fraction of the beam is reflected. In the case of a red laser, water molecules readily absorb red and infrared light (case in point - if you go scuba diving greater than ~30 ft down, and cut yourself, you bleed green - all the red light from the sun is absorbed by that depth) and thus the beam is less visible.
The teacher doesn't need to be omniscient in this day and age - if a teacher encounters something he or she does not know about - he or she can learn very quickly by using a bloody search engine. Now, I'll admit that there is very little information here, but I'm disinclined to let the teacher off the hook. If I were, for example, using a blue Pilot pen to do my homework, and my teacher insists that I use a blue Bic pen - isn't that an unreasonable request? This was clearly a situation where the student *did* know better than the teacher - and the failure of the teacher to recognize this is certainly a quite troubling indication of the state of public schools. This was a situation where the teacher could have actually learned something, that he or she could then pass on to other students. "Hey kids, there's more to this internet thing than a blue 'e'." Clearly, however, the teacher instead saw only disobedience, and likely learned nothing.
Umm - as of ~3 years ago, all cell phone carriers operating in the US are required by the FCC to allow numbers to be ported to and from other providers. The same is true of local (landline) phone numbers as of ~10 years ago. It is not yet true of VoIP. Mind you the cell carriers don't actually have to implement it until someone asks for a port - but when they do, they must comply.
Ajax *is* mainstream - Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple - all using ajax in one form or another in their web applications. Now - as to your other claim, that Ajax doesn't stand up to Silverlight or Flash; I say Flash!?! Have you every built an application in flash? It's a nightmare to maintain. I can't speak to Silverlight, as I've not yet played around with it. But the design theory of ajax combined with a good JS api (like prototype) Makes it a much more maintainable and IMHO a nice way to build interactive web apps.
Clean install might be the way to go, or wiping every preference file even remotely related to network/wifi. At any rate, the last line of your post made me think of this.:P
Generally problems with remembering wireless networks and the passwords that go with them are solved by going in and removing all of the "Preferred" networks from Sys Preferences > Network, then connecting to the networks again and clicking the "remember this network". I've seen problems like that since Jaguar, and that particular fix has always worked for me.
Indeed - or just disable caps lock. It's so useless most of the time, and in such a convenient spot right next to the home row, that I mapped mine to control. Haven't missed it.
Hmm - like making sure that underprivileged college students are able to get financial aid? Oh...wait...
Congress is just as justified in spending time ensuring people can download music for free as it is legislating into stability an antiquated business model of *completely* non-essential corporate juggernauts. We have in this country an ostensibly free market system - as in any system governed by free market economics, the adage "adapt or perish" applies. If people aren't buying your product, there's something wrong with your product. There is plenty of evidence out there to suggest that people will pay for both music and movies, when they're in a convenient, unencumbered format, at a reasonable price. So, rather than whining to the government, the record companies need to slim down, change their business models, and, god forbid, cut the budgets of their million dollar record release parties.
We have a "do not call" list here in the states too. Interestingly enough, one of the exceptions to said list is any company with which you have a preexisting relationship. I read somewhere (too lazy to find the link) that after receiving dozens of ghost calls from one particular number, the person called that number back only to be greeted with a recording to the tune of "Thank you for calling, you've now opted into our phone list."
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Dude, calm down. Perhaps if you took a break from your work once and again, you wouldn't be so stressed out. I work 50 hours a week on average, and sometimes in the middle of the day, I'll take a break from working (oh noes); sometimes when I've worked 4 12 hour days in a row, I'll take a day off, a weekday! Work is not slavery, nor servitude; you provide a product to your employer, for which you are duly compensated - that's it.
Indeed - in fact, if you've got one, I dust off an old dot-matrix printer and print it out on those perforated "spools" of paper they use - i find printed code much easier to read without arbitrary page breaks.
Indeed - in fact most scholars of Christianity trace the origin of "modern fundamentalism" (seems like an oxymoron, I know) to the Princeton Theological Seminary here in Princeton, NJ. To their credit, as an institution they've become friendlier to modern science - but if you want to point the finger, blame them. :P
If gravity were, in fact, a law, (i.e. the gravitational force exerted between two objects is, without exception, GM1M2/r^2), why would scientists be actively researching anti-gravity? Because gravity is just a theory - there may, in fact, be an as-yet-unobserved variable in that equation. Not to mention the fact that we really have no fucking clue as to *why* gravity occurs as we observe it.
A theory in science is defined to be something that is both testable and falsifiable. Relativity, both special and general, is a *theory*. To this day, relativity is still known as the "theory of relativity" - in spite of the fact that there is solid, factual evidence to suggest that relativity is, in fact, a correct interpretation of the laws of physics at speeds approaching c and in gravitational fields. Creationism, or Intelligent Design, on the other hand, is not a theory. Why? Because it's not falsifiable - you can't definitively say "if life was created, we would not see [some property of life]" because the counter argument "because God made it that way" can always be made.
Oh, and ending a statement with "Think about it" does not strengthen your point.
The designers did, in fact, assign a key combination for ejecting an optical disk. Oh wait, every single Apple keyboard since Macs started shipping with slot loading drives includes an "Eject" key. On third party keyboards that were not, specifically, made for Macs, holding down "F12" does the trick. The purpose of adding the mouse button ejection at boot was so that you could eject a disk from a powered down machine without waiting until it finishes booting. Also, the mouse button eject event fires before the machine starts to boot off the specified startup disk, so you can prevent booting from the cd in the drive by holding down the mouse button. You can also eject a disk from Disk Utility, the terminal ("drutil eject"), and the FInder (by dragging it to the trash, or by selecting the disk and hitting cmd-E).
Now admittedly, the lack of a completely manual, unpowered eject on the Matsushita slot loading drives is a design flaw - but that hardly has anything to do with UI design.
In other news, analysts say that the XBox 360 isn't ready for primetime in the corporate market. "Out of the box, all it does is play games," said one IT professional, "it won't even let you check email without installing a rootkit called 'Linux'." A security expert from Microsoft was quick to point out that, "when used as intended - the XBox 360 is very secure. When running a software firewall called 'Halo 3' and operated by a security technician who has earned the much touted 'Legendary' certification, you can rest assured your data is safe from parasitic aliens from outer space." Another security professional was less avid: "I think for now, the 360 should stay in the living room."
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I believe that the reason you can see a green laser beam is because that wavelength of light is not readily absorbed by water molecules in the air, thus some fraction of the beam is reflected. In the case of a red laser, water molecules readily absorb red and infrared light (case in point - if you go scuba diving greater than ~30 ft down, and cut yourself, you bleed green - all the red light from the sun is absorbed by that depth) and thus the beam is less visible.
The teacher doesn't need to be omniscient in this day and age - if a teacher encounters something he or she does not know about - he or she can learn very quickly by using a bloody search engine. Now, I'll admit that there is very little information here, but I'm disinclined to let the teacher off the hook. If I were, for example, using a blue Pilot pen to do my homework, and my teacher insists that I use a blue Bic pen - isn't that an unreasonable request? This was clearly a situation where the student *did* know better than the teacher - and the failure of the teacher to recognize this is certainly a quite troubling indication of the state of public schools. This was a situation where the teacher could have actually learned something, that he or she could then pass on to other students. "Hey kids, there's more to this internet thing than a blue 'e'." Clearly, however, the teacher instead saw only disobedience, and likely learned nothing.
Umm - as of ~3 years ago, all cell phone carriers operating in the US are required by the FCC to allow numbers to be ported to and from other providers. The same is true of local (landline) phone numbers as of ~10 years ago. It is not yet true of VoIP. Mind you the cell carriers don't actually have to implement it until someone asks for a port - but when they do, they must comply.
What kind of applications do you develop in flash? And who maintains them once you've released them, you or someone else?
Ajax *is* mainstream - Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple - all using ajax in one form or another in their web applications. Now - as to your other claim, that Ajax doesn't stand up to Silverlight or Flash; I say Flash!?! Have you every built an application in flash? It's a nightmare to maintain. I can't speak to Silverlight, as I've not yet played around with it. But the design theory of ajax combined with a good JS api (like prototype) Makes it a much more maintainable and IMHO a nice way to build interactive web apps.
Clean install might be the way to go, or wiping every preference file even remotely related to network/wifi. At any rate, the last line of your post made me think of this. :P
Generally problems with remembering wireless networks and the passwords that go with them are solved by going in and removing all of the "Preferred" networks from Sys Preferences > Network, then connecting to the networks again and clicking the "remember this network". I've seen problems like that since Jaguar, and that particular fix has always worked for me.
The force of solar wind. It probably has had a negligible impact on the speed of Voyager 2, but its effects are certainly non-zero.
Indeed - or just disable caps lock. It's so useless most of the time, and in such a convenient spot right next to the home row, that I mapped mine to control. Haven't missed it.
Hmm - like making sure that underprivileged college students are able to get financial aid? Oh...wait...
Congress is just as justified in spending time ensuring people can download music for free as it is legislating into stability an antiquated business model of *completely* non-essential corporate juggernauts. We have in this country an ostensibly free market system - as in any system governed by free market economics, the adage "adapt or perish" applies. If people aren't buying your product, there's something wrong with your product. There is plenty of evidence out there to suggest that people will pay for both music and movies, when they're in a convenient, unencumbered format, at a reasonable price. So, rather than whining to the government, the record companies need to slim down, change their business models, and, god forbid, cut the budgets of their million dollar record release parties.
We have a "do not call" list here in the states too. Interestingly enough, one of the exceptions to said list is any company with which you have a preexisting relationship. I read somewhere (too lazy to find the link) that after receiving dozens of ghost calls from one particular number, the person called that number back only to be greeted with a recording to the tune of "Thank you for calling, you've now opted into our phone list."
Sneaky bastards.
That would be because today is November 12th - Veteran's Day is the 11th (yesterday).