You know, I've been seeing that coloured scroll bar thing more and more lately. The New Yorker even has it. I must be missing something, but what is the purpose? How does this enhance my experience?
The same way Netscape's introduction of the <blink> tag did?;)
I got out of bed and checked Slashdot. For some reason, I read the headline as "Karma illegal, Dutch Appeals Court Rules"..
At that point, I started wondering if I needed more sleep.
For those who have not read it, I would suggest reading Sony's comments regarding Microsoft's licencing of Windows. This is from Sony's submitted commments to the Microsoft Antitrust case. If you think being an OEM and having to include Windows on every PC is bad, imagine being an OEM and knowing that it is possible that "Microsoft [could] use its monopoly power to force its OEM licensees to give up intellectual property rights."
Your brain does not have really have all the information it needs (posititon of the object, current velocity of the object, etc) in numeric form to make precise calculations on the fly. It's probably more of something the brain sees, makes an educated guess about, and fine-tunes that guess as it gathers more information about the event it is seeing.
Or were you asking whether or not our brain thinks of it in imperial units (e.g. the right way), or metric units (e.g. the wrong way)?;) *ducks an angry barrage of balls being thrown at him*
One person in the article asks, "If you anticipate gravity, then why?" Isn't it like anything else? We deal with situations involving gravity for (at least for most people) 100% of our lives. Like anything else done on a day-in day-out basis, we program ourselves to react to situations as they would usually happen. Things like walking, throwing, catching, hand-eye coordination and in this case, predicting how things fall, for most people, become instinct at a certain point in your life. Catching and throwing a ball is fairly instinctual (e.g. you do not go through a concious thought process of moving your hands, etc.), so it shouldn't be surprising that your brain has trouble rewiring itself to adapt to a situation that it has never seen exceptions (such as no gravity) to before.
Or more importantly: Why am I still vacuuming the floors and mowing the lawn by myself?
Whether or not the book actually discusses that, it's a point kind of disturbs me. Honestly, vacuuming floors and mowing the lawn are not that hard. Having to look after yourself also gives you a sense of responsiblity, IMHO. I'm not sure I'd want a robot doing these things for me.
While tools have become more and more comprehensive in helping humans solve tasks (and humans have come to depend more on those tools), humans are still usually the ones directly in control. You push or steer the lawnmower, you move the vacuum where you want to clean, etc. If I had a robot do these things, all of a sudden it's the robot deciding when and how these things are done, and not me. On the other hand, there are also people who may not have the time or ability to take care of chores like these themselves, and having a robot do them might mean the difference between still being able to live at home, and having to live in a nursing home.
You have to admit, they give their games better titles than the originals. (see sidebar at http://www.qknowledge.net/royalquest/kqdownload.cf m) Why play "Kings Quest I: Quest for the Crown" when you can play "Royal Quest 1: Retrieving Lost Shit"?
Same game, different industry, huh. I used to see contest ballots for free cars and whatnot around.. in the fine print, though, it stated if you entered that contest that they could switch your carrier over to some unknown company. Although this isn't the same means, it seems that slamming techniques are definately not an uncommon thing in service industries.. It was probably only a matter of time until we saw stunts like this.
Designing good Linux applications is easy as 1, 2, 3. Just follow these simple steps.
1) Command line only. We all know real users only use command line. 2) Don't comment your source code. Ever. It just wastes valuable programming time. 3) No installation/usage documentation. If they deserved to use your app, they can go figure it out themselves. What are you, tech support?
If you follow these simple instructions, you are guaranteed a rabid cult following, or at the very least a feeling of superiority over your users. </sarcasm>
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=) It's good to hear the stories of others with similar experiences. It really is an invaluable lesson that is sadly never learned by many people.
Vanity is an unduly high opinion of one's own abilities or worth. If people get the benefit of exercise and think that it makes them all that and a bag of chips, that's vanity. Just earning these things, whether for yourself or someone else, is not really vanity, IMO. I agree with you in that people who find it in themselves to push themselves on their own is very respectable, but whether to benefit yourself or your team, you still have to put in the effort, which in itself can be no small feat. The ability to push yourself that hard is what I find respectable.
Upon verification of the theory, Podkletnov (with the help of NASA) promises to personally visit all those who publicly doubted him, and laugh mockingly at them, while waving handfuls of money in their faces.
I'm going to have to disagree with you. Working out is not a fleeting improvement at best. If you are using exercise simply as a vehicle to look better, then you'd be right. But exercise isn't just a bunch of guys sitting in a gym seeing how tough they can get. If you join any kind of team that focuses on exercise (like this guy did, or crew, or anything), it becomes a lot more. I joined my schools crew team because I wanted to get in shape, but what I got out of it was the ability to push myself to new limits, and form a true bond with the people I work with. I would have to say it's been one of the most rewarding things I have done with my life. The harder you push yourself, the more you realize the barriers are mental, and not physical. Just keep in mind 'six-packs' are not the goal of everyone who exercises. When I started, that was my primary goal, but now, it is to see how hard I can push myself, and being in shape is just a nice side bonus.
Novel idea, but I can see a lot of practical problems arising. For example, how do you determine how much room for error there is in clicking on certain parts of an image? Someone might choose to click on the sky, then a boat for their password. Will positions be based on something like +-5 pixels from where you originally clicked, or something smarter like using a magic-wand kind of algorithm? Also, what about people who are blind, or visually impaired? How will people sitting down at a computer figure this system out when they are presented with a picture? If you wish to share your password with someone remotely, how do you do it? (e.g. your mom forgets the password to the family computer and calls you up). Don't get me wrong, it's a novel idea, but I can see a lot of issues coming out of this.
Don't get me wrong, I do have a great deal of respect for people who can go through this, but I am a little disturbed at the suggestion that this being a geek simply means that one gives "50%" of themselves and sits around playing with their cats all day.
I don't think he means just geeks. A lot of the population would give up after trying something like this- the ability to complete something this hard is not something you are born with, it is something you have to decide on and earn day by day. I think what he means is that most people don't really push themselves to this point.. having had similar experiences to this guy, it really is amazing how far you can push yourself. You always think, "I'm worn out, I can't possibly do anymore," but you do, and you learn a little more day by day that your limits are way more than you thought they were. So by 50% I don't think he really means people sit around being lazy asses, just that most people have never really pushed themselves to see how far they can go.
Don't get me wrong, I do have a great deal of respect for people who can go through this, but I am a little disturbed at the suggestion that this being a geek simply means that one gives "50%" of themselves and sits around playing with their cats all day.
I don't think he means just geeks. A lot of the population would give up after trying something like this- the ability to complete something this hard is not something you are born with, it is something you have to decide on and earn day by day. I think what he means is that most people don't really push themselves to this point.. having had similar experiences to this guy, it really is amazing how far you can push yourself. You always think, "I'm worn out, I can't possibly do anymore," but you do, and you learn a little more day by day that your limits are way more than you thought they were. So by 50% I don't think he really means people sit around being lazy asses, just that most people have never really pushed themselves to see how far they can go.
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Read between the lines, moderators. The implication is that hell froze over, because 1.0 finally came out. The post is perfectly on topic.
Those windows-inside-of-windows in Opera make me SICK.
So turn them off. Use the tabs instead, or just pop up separate windows for each browsing session. Problem solved.
There's my reasons for hating Opera, what are your reasons for loving it?
I like Opera because of the mouse gesture navigation, speed, superior page zooming capabilities, pre-filled hotlist... I could go on and on.
You know, I've been seeing that coloured scroll bar thing more and more lately. The New Yorker even has it. I must be missing something, but what is the purpose? How does this enhance my experience?
;)
The same way Netscape's introduction of the <blink> tag did?
I don't care if I'm burning karma, that was frickin hilarious :)
I got out of bed and checked Slashdot. For some reason, I read the headline as "Karma illegal, Dutch Appeals Court Rules"..
At that point, I started wondering if I needed more sleep.
For those who have not read it, I would suggest reading Sony's comments regarding Microsoft's licencing of Windows. This is from Sony's submitted commments to the Microsoft Antitrust case. If you think being an OEM and having to include Windows on every PC is bad, imagine being an OEM and knowing that it is possible that "Microsoft [could] use its monopoly power to force its OEM licensees to give up intellectual property rights."
Well, I'm glad at least one person got it..
Your brain does not have really have all the information it needs (posititon of the object, current velocity of the object, etc) in numeric form to make precise calculations on the fly. It's probably more of something the brain sees, makes an educated guess about, and fine-tunes that guess as it gathers more information about the event it is seeing.
;)
Or were you asking whether or not our brain thinks of it in imperial units (e.g. the right way), or metric units (e.g. the wrong way)?
*ducks an angry barrage of balls being thrown at him*
One person in the article asks, "If you anticipate gravity, then why?" Isn't it like anything else? We deal with situations involving gravity for (at least for most people) 100% of our lives. Like anything else done on a day-in day-out basis, we program ourselves to react to situations as they would usually happen. Things like walking, throwing, catching, hand-eye coordination and in this case, predicting how things fall, for most people, become instinct at a certain point in your life. Catching and throwing a ball is fairly instinctual (e.g. you do not go through a concious thought process of moving your hands, etc.), so it shouldn't be surprising that your brain has trouble rewiring itself to adapt to a situation that it has never seen exceptions (such as no gravity) to before.
Or more importantly: Why am I still vacuuming the floors and mowing the lawn by myself?
Whether or not the book actually discusses that, it's a point kind of disturbs me. Honestly, vacuuming floors and mowing the lawn are not that hard. Having to look after yourself also gives you a sense of responsiblity, IMHO. I'm not sure I'd want a robot doing these things for me.
While tools have become more and more comprehensive in helping humans solve tasks (and humans have come to depend more on those tools), humans are still usually the ones directly in control. You push or steer the lawnmower, you move the vacuum where you want to clean, etc. If I had a robot do these things, all of a sudden it's the robot deciding when and how these things are done, and not me. On the other hand, there are also people who may not have the time or ability to take care of chores like these themselves, and having a robot do them might mean the difference between still being able to live at home, and having to live in a nursing home.
You have to admit, they give their games better titles than the originals. (see sidebar at http://www.qknowledge.net/royalquest/kqdownload.cf m)
Why play "Kings Quest I: Quest for the Crown" when you can play "Royal Quest 1: Retrieving Lost Shit"?
(yes, I'm serious, they really named it that...)
Same game, different industry, huh. I used to see contest ballots for free cars and whatnot around.. in the fine print, though, it stated if you entered that contest that they could switch your carrier over to some unknown company. Although this isn't the same means, it seems that slamming techniques are definately not an uncommon thing in service industries.. It was probably only a matter of time until we saw stunts like this.
One Ring to [win] them all..
Really, it's coming in June now. Honest. We swear it.
;)
*ahem*
Designing good Linux applications is easy as 1, 2, 3. Just follow these simple steps.
1) Command line only. We all know real users only use command line.
2) Don't comment your source code. Ever. It just wastes valuable programming time.
3) No installation/usage documentation. If they deserved to use your app, they can go figure it out themselves. What are you, tech support?
If you follow these simple instructions, you are guaranteed a rabid cult following, or at the very least a feeling of superiority over your users.
</sarcasm>
=) It's good to hear the stories of others with similar experiences. It really is an invaluable lesson that is sadly never learned by many people.
Vanity is an unduly high opinion of one's own abilities or worth. If people get the benefit of exercise and think that it makes them all that and a bag of chips, that's vanity. Just earning these things, whether for yourself or someone else, is not really vanity, IMO. I agree with you in that people who find it in themselves to push themselves on their own is very respectable, but whether to benefit yourself or your team, you still have to put in the effort, which in itself can be no small feat. The ability to push yourself that hard is what I find respectable.
Upon verification of the theory, Podkletnov (with the help of NASA) promises to personally visit all those who publicly doubted him, and laugh mockingly at them, while waving handfuls of money in their faces.
Couldn't agree more.
I'm going to have to disagree with you. Working out is not a fleeting improvement at best. If you are using exercise simply as a vehicle to look better, then you'd be right. But exercise isn't just a bunch of guys sitting in a gym seeing how tough they can get. If you join any kind of team that focuses on exercise (like this guy did, or crew, or anything), it becomes a lot more. I joined my schools crew team because I wanted to get in shape, but what I got out of it was the ability to push myself to new limits, and form a true bond with the people I work with. I would have to say it's been one of the most rewarding things I have done with my life. The harder you push yourself, the more you realize the barriers are mental, and not physical. Just keep in mind 'six-packs' are not the goal of everyone who exercises. When I started, that was my primary goal, but now, it is to see how hard I can push myself, and being in shape is just a nice side bonus.
Novel idea, but I can see a lot of practical problems arising. For example, how do you determine how much room for error there is in clicking on certain parts of an image? Someone might choose to click on the sky, then a boat for their password. Will positions be based on something like +-5 pixels from where you originally clicked, or something smarter like using a magic-wand kind of algorithm? Also, what about people who are blind, or visually impaired? How will people sitting down at a computer figure this system out when they are presented with a picture? If you wish to share your password with someone remotely, how do you do it? (e.g. your mom forgets the password to the family computer and calls you up). Don't get me wrong, it's a novel idea, but I can see a lot of issues coming out of this.
You could always have a Beowolf cluster of them transmitting pr0n..
Instead of bothering with licencing fees related to StarOffice, why not just include OpenOffice? They're the same codebase, right?
Don't get me wrong, I do have a great deal of respect for people who can go through this, but I am a little disturbed at the suggestion that this being a geek simply means that one gives "50%" of themselves and sits around playing with their cats all day.
I don't think he means just geeks. A lot of the population would give up after trying something like this- the ability to complete something this hard is not something you are born with, it is something you have to decide on and earn day by day. I think what he means is that most people don't really push themselves to this point.. having had similar experiences to this guy, it really is amazing how far you can push yourself. You always think, "I'm worn out, I can't possibly do anymore," but you do, and you learn a little more day by day that your limits are way more than you thought they were. So by 50% I don't think he really means people sit around being lazy asses, just that most people have never really pushed themselves to see how far they can go.
Don't get me wrong, I do have a great deal of respect for people who can go through this, but I am a little disturbed at the suggestion that this being a geek simply means that one gives "50%" of themselves and sits around playing with their cats all day.
I don't think he means just geeks. A lot of the population would give up after trying something like this- the ability to complete something this hard is not something you are born with, it is something you have to decide on and earn day by day. I think what he means is that most people don't really push themselves to this point.. having had similar experiences to this guy, it really is amazing how far you can push yourself. You always think, "I'm worn out, I can't possibly do anymore," but you do, and you learn a little more day by day that your limits are way more than you thought they were. So by 50% I don't think he really means people sit around being lazy asses, just that most people have never really pushed themselves to see how far they can go.