Adblock is bad because it makes their site readable?
No, it's bad because it sometimes breaks people's pages.
NoScript bad because it stops nasty/naughty javascript?
No, it's bad becaues it stops all javascript. Today more and more sites are using ajax because it actually enhances the browsing experience.
Run a website of your own, see how many people call or email with problems that are caused by noscript and adblock... and they don't know any better because some relative of theirs told them to install that stuff.
It's one thing to run those extensions because you know what they do and you know the consequences. It's quite another to recommend that other, not so tech savvy, people install those extensions.
That's not entirely true, especially when it comes to RAM. If you have one bad chip, it might not crash in one OS under typical use, but a different OS might crash before it has even finished booting.
Linux is actually smart enough now to patch around bad ram.
Basically, every time you're not presenting a graph/table or whatever visual thing you got, enter a black screen (or press "B" to go black). That way, people aren't tempted to stare at the screen but look at you
In college one of my classes required a powerpoint presentation. You were forced to use it, even though the topic didn't require any visual aids.
I built a powerpoint presentation where the first slide was "Look at me!" second slide was "I'm distracting!" third slide was "Stare at me until next slide" etc.. and I clicked through them while I was giving my presentation. People thought it was pretty funny.
If you were out in the real world, you'd know that very few people can choose exactly when they will work.
The Families and Work Institute found 43 percent of U.S. employees have access to traditional flextime, up from 29 percent in 1992. Managers, professionals and people in higher-paid jobs are more likely to have the option, but other jobs can be flexible as well.
43% is a great deal more than "very few". And that study is 3 years old.
Maybe you should live somewhere where there is less than 6 hours of daylight during the shortest day of the year and see if you still have the same view.
The shortest day of the year happens on STANDARD TIME.. DST has no affect on the shortest day of the year!
The difference is for those people--ie, most of us--who have fixed schedules like 8-5, can experience more of the daylight in the afternoon/evening
That already happens.. it's called summer. The only thing DST accomplishes is instead of having the sun go down at 8pm during the summer, you want it to go down at 9pm. Because 3 hours of after-work daylight isn't enough... sheesh.
angry that they even attempted something to conserve energy.
More like, angry that congress ignored everyone who said it wouldn't work. Angry that congress made a policy change based on data that's 35 years old. Angry that congress didn't list to the people that pointed out that Australia came to the same conclusion 7 years ago when they tried it and actually increased morning energy usage.
They didn't. They've been planning this for a while now. "EMI, in fact, offered a non-copy-protected song from Norah Jones on Yahoo Music and eMusic in late 2006", before Steve even wrote his "manifesto".
That depends entirely on your ears and your equipment, and in many cases on the music itself.
I'd say a lot of cases it depends on the music itself. Especially since most of the music today has been butchered. When the source is full of clipping artifacts, the degradation caused by a low bitrate is hardly noticable.
I have always said that (1) Apple insisted on having exactly the same contracts with each independent as with each of the big companies and (2) selling some music with DRM and some without with no further difference would have been a serious marketing problem.
Well this current deal conflicts with both of those ideas then doesn't it? EMI and the indies will have one contract, while Sony and the other labels will have another. The iTS will now not only have some songs being DRM and some songs being non-DRM, but it will have some songs being $1.29 and some songs being $.99, and some songs being 256kbps and some songs being 128kbps.
The whole idea of "apple wants a unified experience" has been completely and utterly destroyed.
If someone steals a gun, registered in my name and shoots someone, I would expect that the police looked me up. That does not mean that I would be convicted for murder.
You can't compare your $600 Costco HP to a Macbook because they target totally different market segments.
That's the point. You can't say Apple is price competitive with HP and Dell if Apple completely ignores the low-end to mid-range market which makes up 80% of computer sales.
I need a laptop that can browse the web and run Word. That's it. Apple doesn't have ANY laptops that are suitable for me. The sad part is that they used to. The iBook line was running around $800 before they dropped it.
I haven't found the hardware to be better than anything else either. In fact my experience with Apple hardware has been that it breaks more often than other brands.
I have a Compaq laptop and a G3 iBook that are the same age (7 years old). The compaq had the LCD backlight die about 2 years ago. The iBook LCD backlight is in the process of dying (it turns off completely, unless I put pressure on the bottom). So my small bit of anecdotal evidence says that Apple hardware is a little better than Compaq, at least before Compaq merged with HP. Of course the Compaq was much faster than the iBook.
That just means Dell is overpriced. I just bought an HP laptop. It should arrive on tuesday. 120 gig harddrive, 1 gig of ram, dvd burner, it's a sempron 3500 so it's not the fastest thing on the planet. $600 from Costco.
go watch any series (except Voyager or Enterprise, they may make you gouge out your eyes) and tell me the series did not cover the human condition.
Ok.. the series did not cover the human condition. If any show completely ignored basic human nature, it was ST:TNG. We're warlike, quick to judge, angry, emotional, distrusting, ignorant, and completely the opposite of everyone in star trek.
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So, it's safe to assume you're a slashdot subscriber?
Except Filterset.G, which the majority of adblock users use, does block adsense by default.
No, it's bad because it sometimes breaks people's pages.
No, it's bad becaues it stops all javascript. Today more and more sites are using ajax because it actually enhances the browsing experience.
Run a website of your own, see how many people call or email with problems that are caused by noscript and adblock... and they don't know any better because some relative of theirs told them to install that stuff.
It's one thing to run those extensions because you know what they do and you know the consequences. It's quite another to recommend that other, not so tech savvy, people install those extensions.
AppleTV can only do 720p at 24fps. That's fine for movies, but not for anything fast moving, like sports.
Well then, why not Ogg? It's patent free, royalty free, and beats AAC in all the double-blind tests I've seen.
That's not entirely true, especially when it comes to RAM. If you have one bad chip, it might not crash in one OS under typical use, but a different OS might crash before it has even finished booting.
Linux is actually smart enough now to patch around bad ram.
In college one of my classes required a powerpoint presentation. You were forced to use it, even though the topic didn't require any visual aids.
I built a powerpoint presentation where the first slide was "Look at me!" second slide was "I'm distracting!" third slide was "Stare at me until next slide" etc.. and I clicked through them while I was giving my presentation. People thought it was pretty funny.
The Families and Work Institute found 43 percent of U.S. employees have access to traditional flextime, up from 29 percent in 1992. Managers, professionals and people in higher-paid jobs are more likely to have the option, but other jobs can be flexible as well.
43% is a great deal more than "very few". And that study is 3 years old.
It hurt this guy
That'll happen when you get rid of DST. In Arizona, where we try to minimize the amount of sun we get after work, work hours have been pushing 10-6.
The shortest day of the year happens on STANDARD TIME.. DST has no affect on the shortest day of the year!
That already happens.. it's called summer. The only thing DST accomplishes is instead of having the sun go down at 8pm during the summer, you want it to go down at 9pm. Because 3 hours of after-work daylight isn't enough... sheesh.
More like, angry that congress ignored everyone who said it wouldn't work. Angry that congress made a policy change based on data that's 35 years old. Angry that congress didn't list to the people that pointed out that Australia came to the same conclusion 7 years ago when they tried it and actually increased morning energy usage.
They didn't. They've been planning this for a while now. "EMI, in fact, offered a non-copy-protected song from Norah Jones on Yahoo Music and eMusic in late 2006", before Steve even wrote his "manifesto".
I'd say a lot of cases it depends on the music itself. Especially since most of the music today has been butchered. When the source is full of clipping artifacts, the degradation caused by a low bitrate is hardly noticable.
Well this current deal conflicts with both of those ideas then doesn't it? EMI and the indies will have one contract, while Sony and the other labels will have another. The iTS will now not only have some songs being DRM and some songs being non-DRM, but it will have some songs being $1.29 and some songs being $.99, and some songs being 256kbps and some songs being 128kbps.
The whole idea of "apple wants a unified experience" has been completely and utterly destroyed.
You would get convicted of negligence.
That's the point. You can't say Apple is price competitive with HP and Dell if Apple completely ignores the low-end to mid-range market which makes up 80% of computer sales.
I need a laptop that can browse the web and run Word. That's it. Apple doesn't have ANY laptops that are suitable for me. The sad part is that they used to. The iBook line was running around $800 before they dropped it.
I have a Compaq laptop and a G3 iBook that are the same age (7 years old). The compaq had the LCD backlight die about 2 years ago. The iBook LCD backlight is in the process of dying (it turns off completely, unless I put pressure on the bottom). So my small bit of anecdotal evidence says that Apple hardware is a little better than Compaq, at least before Compaq merged with HP. Of course the Compaq was much faster than the iBook.
That just means Dell is overpriced. I just bought an HP laptop. It should arrive on tuesday. 120 gig harddrive, 1 gig of ram, dvd burner, it's a sempron 3500 so it's not the fastest thing on the planet. $600 from Costco.
Maybe Lucas just overflowed a register.
Ok.. the series did not cover the human condition. If any show completely ignored basic human nature, it was ST:TNG. We're warlike, quick to judge, angry, emotional, distrusting, ignorant, and completely the opposite of everyone in star trek.
You left out the best movie about life in space that has ever been created.
John Carptener's Dark Star.
The prequels were CSPAN in space.
They're also mostly independent films.. which the article talks about.
and AI was just a crappy remake of D.A.R.Y.L... without the heart.