the fact is that we really could at any point be wiped out by thousands of chance events at any moment
Makes me wonder: is this the reason we haven't heard from ET yet? That intelligent life on other planets is fairly common, but doesn't last that long due to such events?
And if you are ever in NYC, be sure to visit the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the Natural History Museum and see the
Full Moon Exhibition -- glorius photos from the Apollo missions. The finely detailed images from the best large-format cameras ever made were pretty convincing for me!
Are you mad yet? Haven't you been mad at computers for years?
Thanks! I wish I had kept that book, maybe I'll look for a used one...
Things really gotten much better have they? I was helping someone order something online last night. Their Windows 98 installation keeps hanging, their AOL browser doesn't work and the AOL software often drops the line for no good reason. This is progress?
So next time you design an interface or a web page remember the creator of the Mac. What you create will be WORSE than the Mac.. BECAUSE of all the colours and "clever" bits you used.
Colour can be very effective at highlighting important information, but highly saturated colours (or other highlighting effects) should be used sparingly. For some great references, see
Edward Tufte: Books
I thought Raskin was more concerned with usability then presentation. His essay in
Programmers At Work was great at pointing out how very awful computers are to use from a human (non-programmer) perspective!
you end up needing a total collector area about the size of Alaska
I heard recently that if you add up all of the area in the US covered by roads and buildings, it's about the area of Ohio. Not as big as Alaska, surely, but if we could somehow embed solar collectors into roadways and roofs, couldn't that have a significant impact?
Um, pretty sure it's been colder. And hotter. And wetter. And you name it. Just not that we're aware of.
This worries me more that the prospect of global warming, the prospect that weather is becoming more extreme: harder droughts, hot spells, cold spells and stronger storms. I wonder if it's possible to tell if the fluctuations in weather are increasing? I guess you would have the same issue as with the global temp: what is "normal" is always subject to debate.
If every webmaster would stop implementing fixes and hacks to support non-standard browsers...
The site "cited" here, by Douglas Bowman, has an
article
with an interesting take on this issue:
Start with the stricter, more compliant browsers that (usually) render things how they're supposed to render. Get everything working there. Then, double back and create a few "patches" for IE. Development is much faster this way. It may be counter-intuitive to initially avoid the browser that represents the majority of your traffic. But the process is much more fluid and efficient if you don't become accustomed to -- or depend on -- IE's relaxed rendering behavior. Start with IE, and you may start with bad code that takes much longer to fix for other stricter browsers.
To use an over-simplified analogy, say you are in a car heading towards a sharp corner and you are already going a bit too fast, do you step on the gas or on the brake?
Every single news station they tune to is a Fox station
But Fox News wouldn't cover the climate change, even if the world was coming to an end. They would just keep talking about the latest Peterson trial, and how out-of-touch the Europeans were for bringing it up and contradicting the American gov't
A lot of people say about their spouses, "I'd have never suspected I'd end up with [a Martha Stewart disciple, a sports fanatic, a Republican], but we just fell in love" One of the problems with online dating is that, by pre-filtering your prospects based on what you THINK is important, you may actually be filtering out the best candidate!
True, but everyone has preference dimensions that are more important then others. I was using on-line dating services alot the last couple of years. After some trial and error, found that being reasonably fit and enjoying outdoor activities were critical to me, but other characteristics less so: politics, religion, being a "10"...
Once you learn your critical preferences, you get can a good feel for someone by their "voice" from an on-line profile and, with luck, over the phone. I met someone on-line earlier this year I just got engaged to....
Re:pick = next_one better than best of (1/e * date
on
Mathematics and Sex
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10 - You cannot ever go back to choose a previous date. no second chances.
I wonder how the result would change if the model allowed a chance to go back to anyone, or back to a recent date with some percentage of success -- this should be closer to real life. Perhaps the curve would peak sooner and decrease at a lower rate?
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No it's "Go back to the golf course and work on your putts!"
Oh wait! Wrong movie...
And if you are ever in NYC, be sure to visit the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the Natural History Museum and see the Full Moon Exhibition -- glorius photos from the Apollo missions. The finely detailed images from the best large-format cameras ever made were pretty convincing for me!
Things really gotten much better have they? I was helping someone order something online last night. Their Windows 98 installation keeps hanging, their AOL browser doesn't work and the AOL software often drops the line for no good reason. This is progress?
I thought Raskin was more concerned with usability then presentation. His essay in Programmers At Work was great at pointing out how very awful computers are to use from a human (non-programmer) perspective!
Fake grass, you can't smoke? Beats me...
5) Tang!
That's OK, you're their all-time best seller!
Why not sell the picture while you're at it? I'd gladly give up one of Sacagawea dollar coings from my change!
Was tutoring her strategy to maximize her chances?
Once you learn your critical preferences, you get can a good feel for someone by their "voice" from an on-line profile and, with luck, over the phone. I met someone on-line earlier this year I just got engaged to....
In Soviet Sweden, Math does you?