My sense is that a lot of the super-specific postings are written that way because the folks doing the hiring already have someone in mind. So they can say, "Candidate X may have an MS from MIT, but they only know Excel 2010 while my coffee buddy Ron is proficient in Excel 2013!"
This doesn't show how stupid people are about their passwords; quite the opposite. All you're using the password for is to comment on a stupid blog post. It's actually kind of interesting that a lot of people seem understand that concept and so don't spend a lot of time generating a secure password.
I agree, thinness is probably overrated, but lightness isn't. Since we don't have flexible high-res screens, however, the "fold-in-half" laptop isn't going to show up any time soon.
I have an original MacBook Air, and absolutely love having a full-size notebook in such a lightweight package. I really value the full-sized screen and keyboard, and I bought a very small bag that's easy to carry along with me. Now when I'm out and about, I'm carrying a laptop *and* case that is smaller and lighter than most laptops out there. I even have room for a magazine or a book and a notepad.
That said, I actually don't see anything in these new models that will convince me to ditch my nearly-3-year-old MBA.
Congratulations, Google! You've figured out how to change a useful feature (seeing what the street really looks like) into a useless one (overlaying the street view with things that aren't actually there)! Brilliant!
You might be able to do it with something less than 1/4 the b/w resolution, by using, say, half the pixels for black, then distributing the other three colors over the remaining half. You'd have lower resolution for color images, but text would crisper and cleaner. So if you could double the pixel resolution, you could add color without decreasing b/w resolution.
OTOH, I'm not sure this would actually work at all. When you print a halftone, you can actually overlap colors. You can physically print Cyan over the Black. But with e-ink, each pixel has to be a particular color. So you couldn't have a black screen if only half of your pixels have the option of displaying black. It would be gray at best.
Yep, it happens all the time. PZ has an excellent take on it and I wouldn't be at all surprised if he's right. This is science by press release. Let's wait for the actual report (and other scientists' analysis of it) before we come to a conclusion.
If e-Voting eliminates the possibility for failure, then that is actually an argument against e-Voting: lots of people cast invalid votes as a means of protest
And Paul Revere completed his midnight ride on horseback. We must return to a horse-and-buggy civilization so that we can stop potential invaders!
Also, all tea must be transported in unsecured sailing vessels, the better to allow us to protest their taxation!
There are many reasons to criticize electronic voting, but that's not one of them.
It often takes many weeks to see a specialist in the U.S. as well, and many weeks after that to schedule surgery, depending on how urgent the surgery is. I'd be interested to see a similar report on the U.S. system.
Ummm...
Tsunamis are only a danger as they approach the coastline. Not 7 miles off shore.
Hurricanes may be a bigger factor. Although clearly there are some places that are more hurricane-prone than others. Has a hurricane ever hit the Bay Area?
Terrorists: intriguing idea. But wouldn't it be just as easy for terrorists to bomb a data center on land, if that's what they wanted to do?
So are you saying it's acceptable to run people over in a car because they might be rapists?
What I'm saying is that researchers have found that people are more aggressive after playing a game like Carmageddon which rewards "bad" behavior. The research has not found that people are more aggressive after playing social games like WoW which also involve violence. Part of the reason may be that being involved in a scenario where friends are treated well and enemies are attacked leads to less generally aggressive behavior in the real world.
Video games are complex phenomena, which can sometimes lead to aggressive real-world behavior and sometimes not. One limitation of the Barnett study and the Williams/Skoric study I linked to is that they don't actually measure aggression -- they measure surrogates such as "anger."
It's an interesting study. I emailed Barnett for a copy of her poster and it's the real deal (though it hasn't yet been peer-reviewed). There has actually been similar work (which Barnett cites in her poster) previously. RPGs are definitely different from shooters or games like Carmageddon where the whole point is to take out innocent people.
The take home point is that all "violent" games are not equal. Some games fire us up and some cool us down.
What I find odd is that Apple's newest keyboard is just a modern rehash of the IBM PCjr chicklet design, and yet nobody I've talked to has made big complaints about it. Honestly, the thing is worse than a rollup USB pocket keyboard, worse than those little laser-on-the-table keyboards, worse than typing through one of those plastic grease-shield membranes on a cash register, and yet, because it's done by Apple, it's gotten a free ticket to reinvent the chicklet without an uproar.
I'm typing on the new Apple keyboard as we speak. I actually voluntary upgraded to this keyboard from the previous model because I didn't like the feel of that one. It's nothing like the PC Jr chiclet keyboard -- the keys have excellent feel and it's easy to type fast. It would be better if the keys had a least a little bit of depression in the middle like the older iBooks and PowerBooks, but I much prefer this model to the last Apple keyboard.
Hmmm...
I've been using excel for years and I've never had occasion to use that feature. You're basing your entire evaluation of a product on one rarely-used feature? Personally I'd like to be able to change the default graph style in excel. Can't do that either, but you don't see me screaming for the exits.
No, royalty-free is different from free. Royalty-free means that you don't have to pay based on the number of uses of the images. It does NOT mean you get it for free.
Xerox is a business equipment company; Cisco is a networking and telecom device company. You have to draw the line somewhere, and this article limited it to certain categories used by Yahoo finance.
If Google's doing this for radio, then what about podcasts? If I could put google ads into podcasts as easily and unobtrusively as I can with adsense, I might consider it (podcasting, that is).
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My sense is that a lot of the super-specific postings are written that way because the folks doing the hiring already have someone in mind. So they can say, "Candidate X may have an MS from MIT, but they only know Excel 2010 while my coffee buddy Ron is proficient in Excel 2013!"
Well, 123456 wouldn't work on every site, so I kind of doubt that.
This doesn't show how stupid people are about their passwords; quite the opposite. All you're using the password for is to comment on a stupid blog post. It's actually kind of interesting that a lot of people seem understand that concept and so don't spend a lot of time generating a secure password.
I have an original MacBook Air, and absolutely love having a full-size notebook in such a lightweight package. I really value the full-sized screen and keyboard, and I bought a very small bag that's easy to carry along with me. Now when I'm out and about, I'm carrying a laptop *and* case that is smaller and lighter than most laptops out there. I even have room for a magazine or a book and a notepad.
That said, I actually don't see anything in these new models that will convince me to ditch my nearly-3-year-old MBA.
Congratulations, Google! You've figured out how to change a useful feature (seeing what the street really looks like) into a useless one (overlaying the street view with things that aren't actually there)! Brilliant!
It couldn't possibly be *management's* fault for creating a system in which a clerical error can result in a $billion-plus loss.
You might be able to do it with something less than 1/4 the b/w resolution, by using, say, half the pixels for black, then distributing the other three colors over the remaining half. You'd have lower resolution for color images, but text would crisper and cleaner. So if you could double the pixel resolution, you could add color without decreasing b/w resolution.
OTOH, I'm not sure this would actually work at all. When you print a halftone, you can actually overlap colors. You can physically print Cyan over the Black. But with e-ink, each pixel has to be a particular color. So you couldn't have a black screen if only half of your pixels have the option of displaying black. It would be gray at best.
Yep, it happens all the time. PZ has an excellent take on it and I wouldn't be at all surprised if he's right. This is science by press release. Let's wait for the actual report (and other scientists' analysis of it) before we come to a conclusion.
If e-Voting eliminates the possibility for failure, then that is actually an argument against e-Voting: lots of people cast invalid votes as a means of protest
And Paul Revere completed his midnight ride on horseback. We must return to a horse-and-buggy civilization so that we can stop potential invaders!
Also, all tea must be transported in unsecured sailing vessels, the better to allow us to protest their taxation!
There are many reasons to criticize electronic voting, but that's not one of them.
It often takes many weeks to see a specialist in the U.S. as well, and many weeks after that to schedule surgery, depending on how urgent the surgery is. I'd be interested to see a similar report on the U.S. system.
Ummm... Tsunamis are only a danger as they approach the coastline. Not 7 miles off shore. Hurricanes may be a bigger factor. Although clearly there are some places that are more hurricane-prone than others. Has a hurricane ever hit the Bay Area? Terrorists: intriguing idea. But wouldn't it be just as easy for terrorists to bomb a data center on land, if that's what they wanted to do?
Who knew the first spaceship for the masses would be modeled after the VW beetle?
Brilliant! Bill Gates has the power to end the recession! Just let anyone modify Windows and sell it as their own OS!
So are you saying it's acceptable to run people over in a car because they might be rapists?
What I'm saying is that researchers have found that people are more aggressive after playing a game like Carmageddon which rewards "bad" behavior. The research has not found that people are more aggressive after playing social games like WoW which also involve violence. Part of the reason may be that being involved in a scenario where friends are treated well and enemies are attacked leads to less generally aggressive behavior in the real world.
Video games are complex phenomena, which can sometimes lead to aggressive real-world behavior and sometimes not. One limitation of the Barnett study and the Williams/Skoric study I linked to is that they don't actually measure aggression -- they measure surrogates such as "anger."
Actually the headline to the Slashdot article didn't specify "World of Warcraft." But it was specified in the link.
The take home point is that all "violent" games are not equal. Some games fire us up and some cool us down.
Have you ever tried Panera coffee? It's worse. It's watered down, and there's absolutely no flavor to it.
Yes, I'd definitely like to know how well Macs are covered. If all the book does is list PC-only security apps, it doesn't do me much good.
Hmmm... I've been using excel for years and I've never had occasion to use that feature. You're basing your entire evaluation of a product on one rarely-used feature? Personally I'd like to be able to change the default graph style in excel. Can't do that either, but you don't see me screaming for the exits.
1. Travel overseas and rack up huge iPhone bill /.
2. Submit your story to blogs, forums, and
3. ????
4. Profit
5. Pay your iPhone bill
No, royalty-free is different from free. Royalty-free means that you don't have to pay based on the number of uses of the images. It does NOT mean you get it for free.
Xerox is a business equipment company; Cisco is a networking and telecom device company. You have to draw the line somewhere, and this article limited it to certain categories used by Yahoo finance.
Ummm.. no, because some (most?) people find the videos on Youtube, without going to Gawker first.
If Google's doing this for radio, then what about podcasts? If I could put google ads into podcasts as easily and unobtrusively as I can with adsense, I might consider it (podcasting, that is).