Dude, sure, some of that money would get returned to the economy. The real question: what's the point of going to Mars? If it's to stimulate the economy, there are far, far more efficient ways to do that. If it's to gain science and technical knowledge, the next question becomes - is it worth it? The answer is also probably no, at least for human missions to Mars - we can accomplish almost all the same goals via robotic exploration. So realistically, this is pretty much a waste of money. If they limited the scope to robotic sample return, that might be a different story.
Any more so than the Apollo CSM could be the same as the entire Saturn V configured for Apollo, or an F/A-18 could be the same as the USS Nimitz. The outbound craft is going to have to contain the inbound craft - by definition, they can't be the same thing.
Because for one thing, the bin by default limits itself to 10% of the size of the disk, and I'm pretty sure that for larger disks, no matter what percentage you select, there's a hard limit to how much space the bin will take up (automatically deleting things to keep under the max size). And what the hell does RAM have to do with it? Windows is not keeping the contents of the recycle bin in RAM, for heaven's sake.
Look, either dropping a file in the recycle bin and forgetting about it, or immediately hard deleting a file are both fine options - nothing wrong with either one in the right situation. What's crazy is wanting to drop a file in the recycle bin, but then not being able to stop yourself from immediately hard-deleting the file, simply because the "empty recycle bin" icon changes to "recycle bin with crumpled paper" icon. What's absolutely round-the-bend loony-tunes is forcing everyone else in the company to lose access to their recycle bin because of your neurosis. Seriously.
I seriously doubt that the users like to have to delete, confirm a delete, and then empty the bin.
Well, obviously you have to delete if you're going to delete. You don't need to delete the damn recycle bin icon to avoid needing to confirm a delete, and by itself, deleting the icon wouldn't even solve that problem. And finally, the submitter's solution doesn't relieve the need to empty the bin - it (by freaking design) makes it MORE DIFFICULT to empty the bin. And it's more than "a convenience if you happen to delete a lot of files you meant to keep". It's a damn lifesaver if even once you delete an important file by accident. And the submitter didn't even do away with the bin - he just hid it.
You're going to admit right here in public (on Slashdot, no less) that 1) you don't have enough self control to stop yourself from emptying the recycle bin every few hours and 2) you can't figure out how to move the recycle bin icon from one part of your screen to another?
Dude, your problem is not with the UI. I believe, as the saying goes, that it exists between keyboard and chair.
these are people who really shouldn't be allowed to operate equipment more complicated than an adjustable 3 hole punch.
Dude, think about that for a minute. Sure, there are people like that. Is hiding the recycle bin really going to solve your problems with them? If they're too stupid to know not to pour coffee on their machine, or to read and understand a message telling them they can't send more mail until they delete something... I submit that, yeah, they ought to have their machines taken away. Hiding the recycle bin does exactly nothing but piss off competent computer users.
I think it's highly unlikely that a majority of users immediately empties the recycle bin the minute a file appears in it. That's pure projection on the part of a nutty admin.
Dude, if you literally can't stop yourself from emptying the recycle bin the instant a file appears in it, the problem's not with the "metaphor". It's with your admitted OCD. And I flat out don't believe that "most people" have the same issue you do.
Easily 90% of my music listening happens in a car. Right there, most of what you could get from better quality recordings/masters is gone anyway due to road noise. Yeah, CDs ripped at 196k, played via iPod, through a tape adapter to my car stereo, and refugees from the loudness wars anyway... not such great quality. But it's cheap, easy, and good enough for what I need.
That's not to say better quality stuff shouldn't be offered - sure, choice is a good thing. But I have to think that there are a bunch of people who are going to get ripped off buying super-high quality tracks that they don't have a prayer of accurately playing on their equipment. Super high bit-rate and dynamic range tracks are the premium gasoline of music.
First of all, anything large you can avoid stepping on, and anything small doesn't penetrate the skin.
Right. After all, it's a well-known fact that no barefoot person in history has ever injured their feet.
Whatever, dude. Don't want to wear shoes? Fine, don't. But lets not pretend that wading around streams "full of rusted metal and glass" without injury is anything more than good luck on your part. Or that going barefoot makes you somehow morally superior to us shoe-wearing clods.
Let's just say that if the tongues of your shoes get (and stay) consistently wet enough to sprout seeds, you've got bigger problems than flowers growing out of your shoes. Like, say, trench foot. Most seeds need to stay fairly damp, consistently, for a while, to sprout.
How viable would the seeds be after a year or so of wear? For non-running shoes, I can easily get a year and probably more of life before I'd be ready to compost them, and I have to think that the germination rate wouldn't be that great after so long.
Actually both indica and sativa have cultivars that are useful as recreational drugs. My understanding is the hemp is produced from sativa, but different cultivars than those meant to be smoked.
I don't think anyone is saying that there's NEVER a use for voice interaction with computers. If you didn't have the use of your hands, it would be a godsend. But a - d above really are going to be issues for a lot of people in the most common computer use cases - for example, in the cube farm, or when you're working with your laptop and your spouse is in the neighboring chair trying to read a book.
... and correcting errors, though. My guess is that most "errors" in human speech are not even noticed by the recipient, because the listener's ability to take context into account "autocorrects" them. And humans are also better at the converse case - when they hear an error they can't fix, they are immediately able to flag it as an error and request clarification... rather than assuming that the speaker meant to be spouting gibberish.
... just annoying for me. Can you imagine being in a cube farm where everyone was interacting with their computer via voice? It's too horrifying to contemplate. I wouldn't even want to do it in the privacy of my own home. But then I'm big into peace & quiet.
... out of anti-matter even if you had a big supply of it. Some simulations have indicated that as the antimatter began to contact matter, the energy of the initial annihilation reactions would drive the antimatter away from the site where the reaction began. So... you have a bottle of anti-matter, you "open" the "bottle", annhilations begin... and the antimatter is driven back into the bottle. Alternatively, you make the bottle disappear all at once, and the annihilation "flame front" proceeds somewhat slowly (in relative terms) into the mass of anti-matter. In either case, you wind up with something more like a big "whoosh" than a bang. I used to have a link where this was discussed... unfortunately can't find it now.
An attack by Anonymous never made much sense to begin with. It's not like WBC has this huge network of computer assets to attack - they're, what, about 5 people? I doubt that shutting down their multi-function printer/scanner/fax machine would really faze them much.
I doubt any individuals or really small groups have much to fear from Anonymous, as the results Anonymous could obtain would be pretty meager compared to the amount of effort required.
Because Republican's don't care at all about job losses. What they care about is making sure profits continue to flow to rich people. If a bunch of fisherman lose their jobs, who cares? They're little people.
It's Debian proper that made me want to slit my wrists. I ran Debian for years without too many issues, but as of a couple of years ago, literally every. single. update was breaking my damn machine, to the point where I would have to wipe and reinstall the OS. I finally got fed up, blew away Debian, and installed Ubuntu. LIfe's been good since then.
Yes, all Macs nowadays have built-in wireless. However, not all of them (such as my older Powerbook G4) have built in.11n wireless. If I could find a compatible.11n stick, that would be one less machine I'd have to carry on the.11g side of my home network.
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Dude, sure, some of that money would get returned to the economy. The real question: what's the point of going to Mars? If it's to stimulate the economy, there are far, far more efficient ways to do that. If it's to gain science and technical knowledge, the next question becomes - is it worth it? The answer is also probably no, at least for human missions to Mars - we can accomplish almost all the same goals via robotic exploration. So realistically, this is pretty much a waste of money. If they limited the scope to robotic sample return, that might be a different story.
Any more so than the Apollo CSM could be the same as the entire Saturn V configured for Apollo, or an F/A-18 could be the same as the USS Nimitz. The outbound craft is going to have to contain the inbound craft - by definition, they can't be the same thing.
Because for one thing, the bin by default limits itself to 10% of the size of the disk, and I'm pretty sure that for larger disks, no matter what percentage you select, there's a hard limit to how much space the bin will take up (automatically deleting things to keep under the max size). And what the hell does RAM have to do with it? Windows is not keeping the contents of the recycle bin in RAM, for heaven's sake.
Look, either dropping a file in the recycle bin and forgetting about it, or immediately hard deleting a file are both fine options - nothing wrong with either one in the right situation. What's crazy is wanting to drop a file in the recycle bin, but then not being able to stop yourself from immediately hard-deleting the file, simply because the "empty recycle bin" icon changes to "recycle bin with crumpled paper" icon. What's absolutely round-the-bend loony-tunes is forcing everyone else in the company to lose access to their recycle bin because of your neurosis. Seriously.
Well, obviously you have to delete if you're going to delete. You don't need to delete the damn recycle bin icon to avoid needing to confirm a delete, and by itself, deleting the icon wouldn't even solve that problem. And finally, the submitter's solution doesn't relieve the need to empty the bin - it (by freaking design) makes it MORE DIFFICULT to empty the bin. And it's more than "a convenience if you happen to delete a lot of files you meant to keep". It's a damn lifesaver if even once you delete an important file by accident. And the submitter didn't even do away with the bin - he just hid it.
You're going to admit right here in public (on Slashdot, no less) that 1) you don't have enough self control to stop yourself from emptying the recycle bin every few hours and 2) you can't figure out how to move the recycle bin icon from one part of your screen to another?
Dude, your problem is not with the UI. I believe, as the saying goes, that it exists between keyboard and chair.
Dude, think about that for a minute. Sure, there are people like that. Is hiding the recycle bin really going to solve your problems with them? If they're too stupid to know not to pour coffee on their machine, or to read and understand a message telling them they can't send more mail until they delete something... I submit that, yeah, they ought to have their machines taken away. Hiding the recycle bin does exactly nothing but piss off competent computer users.
Seriously. Where the hell are these people who immediately empty their recycle bins every time they delete a file. That's completely fucking nuts.
Not an admin here (except at home), but I help a lot of people with their computers, and I've NEVER seen this.
I think it's highly unlikely that a majority of users immediately empties the recycle bin the minute a file appears in it. That's pure projection on the part of a nutty admin.
Dude, if you literally can't stop yourself from emptying the recycle bin the instant a file appears in it, the problem's not with the "metaphor". It's with your admitted OCD. And I flat out don't believe that "most people" have the same issue you do.
Easily 90% of my music listening happens in a car. Right there, most of what you could get from better quality recordings/masters is gone anyway due to road noise. Yeah, CDs ripped at 196k, played via iPod, through a tape adapter to my car stereo, and refugees from the loudness wars anyway... not such great quality. But it's cheap, easy, and good enough for what I need.
That's not to say better quality stuff shouldn't be offered - sure, choice is a good thing. But I have to think that there are a bunch of people who are going to get ripped off buying super-high quality tracks that they don't have a prayer of accurately playing on their equipment. Super high bit-rate and dynamic range tracks are the premium gasoline of music.
Right. After all, it's a well-known fact that no barefoot person in history has ever injured their feet.
Whatever, dude. Don't want to wear shoes? Fine, don't. But lets not pretend that wading around streams "full of rusted metal and glass" without injury is anything more than good luck on your part. Or that going barefoot makes you somehow morally superior to us shoe-wearing clods.
Let's just say that if the tongues of your shoes get (and stay) consistently wet enough to sprout seeds, you've got bigger problems than flowers growing out of your shoes. Like, say, trench foot. Most seeds need to stay fairly damp, consistently, for a while, to sprout.
But if they just use zinnias or marigolds or whatever I doubt anyone has too much to worry about.
How viable would the seeds be after a year or so of wear? For non-running shoes, I can easily get a year and probably more of life before I'd be ready to compost them, and I have to think that the germination rate wouldn't be that great after so long.
Actually both indica and sativa have cultivars that are useful as recreational drugs. My understanding is the hemp is produced from sativa, but different cultivars than those meant to be smoked.
I see what you did there.
I don't think anyone is saying that there's NEVER a use for voice interaction with computers. If you didn't have the use of your hands, it would be a godsend. But a - d above really are going to be issues for a lot of people in the most common computer use cases - for example, in the cube farm, or when you're working with your laptop and your spouse is in the neighboring chair trying to read a book.
... and correcting errors, though. My guess is that most "errors" in human speech are not even noticed by the recipient, because the listener's ability to take context into account "autocorrects" them. And humans are also better at the converse case - when they hear an error they can't fix, they are immediately able to flag it as an error and request clarification... rather than assuming that the speaker meant to be spouting gibberish.
... just annoying for me. Can you imagine being in a cube farm where everyone was interacting with their computer via voice? It's too horrifying to contemplate. I wouldn't even want to do it in the privacy of my own home. But then I'm big into peace & quiet.
... out of anti-matter even if you had a big supply of it. Some simulations have indicated that as the antimatter began to contact matter, the energy of the initial annihilation reactions would drive the antimatter away from the site where the reaction began. So... you have a bottle of anti-matter, you "open" the "bottle", annhilations begin... and the antimatter is driven back into the bottle. Alternatively, you make the bottle disappear all at once, and the annihilation "flame front" proceeds somewhat slowly (in relative terms) into the mass of anti-matter. In either case, you wind up with something more like a big "whoosh" than a bang. I used to have a link where this was discussed... unfortunately can't find it now.
An attack by Anonymous never made much sense to begin with. It's not like WBC has this huge network of computer assets to attack - they're, what, about 5 people? I doubt that shutting down their multi-function printer/scanner/fax machine would really faze them much.
I doubt any individuals or really small groups have much to fear from Anonymous, as the results Anonymous could obtain would be pretty meager compared to the amount of effort required.
Because Republican's don't care at all about job losses. What they care about is making sure profits continue to flow to rich people. If a bunch of fisherman lose their jobs, who cares? They're little people.
It's Debian proper that made me want to slit my wrists. I ran Debian for years without too many issues, but as of a couple of years ago, literally every. single. update was breaking my damn machine, to the point where I would have to wipe and reinstall the OS. I finally got fed up, blew away Debian, and installed Ubuntu. LIfe's been good since then.
Yes, all Macs nowadays have built-in wireless. However, not all of them (such as my older Powerbook G4) have built in .11n wireless. If I could find a compatible .11n stick, that would be one less machine I'd have to carry on the .11g side of my home network.