I do that too, and I think it's pretty normal. Maybe it's a focus thing. Maybe even a contrast thing... sometimes white on blue is easier to read for me.
As far as the parent post... I agree it would be nice if people could automagically cite their sources properly. That would be cool, but that's the sort of thing you want autoappended by a browser or browser extension, not some third, unrelated party that collects this info and surreptitiously controls what goes in your clipboard.
I bought R61i's for our staff at work. They're still relatively durable, the display doesn't have that bullshit glassy finish, and it features all of the keys you mention... though I think the SysRq key is a total waste. They are widescreen, which I sometimes prefer and sometimes wish were 4:3 and had more vertical lines. This is particularly true when I'm looking at an IDE, though I doubt that's a common complaint.
Which is at a power level that makes for a useful range of inches. How do they make these so my neighbors will work from his living room to his bedroom without screwing up my cellphone when we share a living room wall?
Yeah just according to the article, which is silly because this device clearly is not the highlight of CES. There are quite a few candidates for that title, and I'm not sure anyone would put this device on the list.
Not everyone follows these things. I don't know a damned thing about video games, I could well have bought madden for my nephew. And he's too young to know about things like this.
This is bullshit, every way you work it, and EA should get bitch-slapped for it.
Exactly. The Courier and the eDGe are not even in the same f'ing BALLPARK as each other. One is an ereader with a small lcd. One is a sexy executive style notebook powered by an unusual OneNote type interface and (presumably) Exchange & Sharepoint sync support.
That and Microsoft have made it mandatory to interact with some parts of their site, and made most of their video content unavailable for viewing with anything but Silverlight.
So while we see an increase in silverlight plugin installs, I consider quite a few of those as gun-to-the-head installs, and I take time out to personally motherfuck any website I see using that abomination.
...just don't know when to shut their mouths. I'm pretty sure when the CIA needs their satellites they'll use their satellites. In the meantime, lets maximize our investment and use these things in their downtime for something useful.
Correct. This whole problem stems from this awful idea that PDF should be more than what made it popular. Its purpose is to make sure a document looks the same for everyone, regardless of a person's installed fonts or default margins, etc.
In a struggle to monetize the PDF format and maintain relevance Adobe keeps adding all kinds of bullshit feature bloat that doesn't catch on, BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT IT. Take form submission. How many PDF forms have you seen in the wild? I haven't seen more than two in the last ten years. Adobe isn't about to give this up though. They've committed to these BS features, they're not going away now regardless of how irrelevant or dangerous they are.
Look into a good alternative reader. Adobe is not a customer-centric company. It never has been.
250% sounds more impressive than 12% actualization, especially taking into account what that 12% cost them in 3 months of advertising bombardment and the release of a flagship product.
Absolutely the case in my experience as well. Our developers were helpless with basic system administration. Our admins couldn't code very well. It put me in a unique position as an IT guy gone programmer.
Not likely. The article also said it normally snows from November to March. It's nearly January and we're reading about how it has snowed in Moscow. Sounds like they're doing a good job, no?
Eh, I'd say the vast majority of adults can be coerced into navigating an intersection with an acceptable regard for the rules. Flow of traffic and safety are a result. Without police and very, very simple instructional devices at every intersection I expect bad things would happen. At the very least I think it's fair to say that people just don't care enough to take the safety of their fellow man into consideration while driving. I think most people who deal with the topic must agree, or we wouldn't have traffic signals and strict law enforcement on the roads.
I won't comment on people being "stupid", as that depends on the definition of "stupid".
Given what it costs to deal with snow in a major city each year, $6 million sounds like money very well spent. Now if only someone would get the dome cities idea back on the table...
It's even more complicated than that. We have at least 2 Cook County Sales & Use tax zones near the Itasca/EGV border that depend on street location, not county. Yet another complication separate of the Chicago city taxes you mentioned. Having started a couple here, I think it's fair to say Illinois sucks for business in pretty much every way imaginable. Oh and the weather sucks.
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I do that too, and I think it's pretty normal. Maybe it's a focus thing. Maybe even a contrast thing... sometimes white on blue is easier to read for me.
As far as the parent post... I agree it would be nice if people could automagically cite their sources properly. That would be cool, but that's the sort of thing you want autoappended by a browser or browser extension, not some third, unrelated party that collects this info and surreptitiously controls what goes in your clipboard.
I bought R61i's for our staff at work. They're still relatively durable, the display doesn't have that bullshit glassy finish, and it features all of the keys you mention... though I think the SysRq key is a total waste. They are widescreen, which I sometimes prefer and sometimes wish were 4:3 and had more vertical lines. This is particularly true when I'm looking at an IDE, though I doubt that's a common complaint.
Which is at a power level that makes for a useful range of inches. How do they make these so my neighbors will work from his living room to his bedroom without screwing up my cellphone when we share a living room wall?
What you've just said is, "Google pulled a Microsoft". You don't call Microsoft with your Windows problems. ;)
Looks kinda like this guys machine:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/12/13/1747201/The-DIY-Book-Scanner?art_pos=3
Yeah just according to the article, which is silly because this device clearly is not the highlight of CES. There are quite a few candidates for that title, and I'm not sure anyone would put this device on the list.
http://gizmodo.com/5441762/the-best-of-ces?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+gizmodo/full+(Gizmodo)
Not everyone follows these things. I don't know a damned thing about video games, I could well have bought madden for my nephew. And he's too young to know about things like this.
This is bullshit, every way you work it, and EA should get bitch-slapped for it.
Exactly. The Courier and the eDGe are not even in the same f'ing BALLPARK as each other. One is an ereader with a small lcd. One is a sexy executive style notebook powered by an unusual OneNote type interface and (presumably) Exchange & Sharepoint sync support.
That and Microsoft have made it mandatory to interact with some parts of their site, and made most of their video content unavailable for viewing with anything but Silverlight.
So while we see an increase in silverlight plugin installs, I consider quite a few of those as gun-to-the-head installs, and I take time out to personally motherfuck any website I see using that abomination.
...just don't know when to shut their mouths. I'm pretty sure when the CIA needs their satellites they'll use their satellites. In the meantime, lets maximize our investment and use these things in their downtime for something useful.
Where's the real flesh ?
When you say it, it sounds so sexy.
Correct. This whole problem stems from this awful idea that PDF should be more than what made it popular. Its purpose is to make sure a document looks the same for everyone, regardless of a person's installed fonts or default margins, etc.
In a struggle to monetize the PDF format and maintain relevance Adobe keeps adding all kinds of bullshit feature bloat that doesn't catch on, BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT IT. Take form submission. How many PDF forms have you seen in the wild? I haven't seen more than two in the last ten years. Adobe isn't about to give this up though. They've committed to these BS features, they're not going away now regardless of how irrelevant or dangerous they are.
Look into a good alternative reader. Adobe is not a customer-centric company. It never has been.
Psssh... it worked fine in Total Recall.
That'll be funny... right up until the cavity search.
250% sounds more impressive than 12% actualization, especially taking into account what that 12% cost them in 3 months of advertising bombardment and the release of a flagship product.
His anecdote is just an anecdote, but so is yours.
Some studies on the topic indicate that IN GENERAL people who live, for instance, on farms, tend to grow up with stronger immune systems.
Some studies even suggest that living on a farm while in your mothers womb is beneficial to your immune system. Bizarre.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7586328.stm
Absolutely the case in my experience as well. Our developers were helpless with basic system administration. Our admins couldn't code very well. It put me in a unique position as an IT guy gone programmer.
Not likely. The article also said it normally snows from November to March. It's nearly January and we're reading about how it has snowed in Moscow. Sounds like they're doing a good job, no?
Eh, I'd say the vast majority of adults can be coerced into navigating an intersection with an acceptable regard for the rules. Flow of traffic and safety are a result. Without police and very, very simple instructional devices at every intersection I expect bad things would happen. At the very least I think it's fair to say that people just don't care enough to take the safety of their fellow man into consideration while driving. I think most people who deal with the topic must agree, or we wouldn't have traffic signals and strict law enforcement on the roads.
I won't comment on people being "stupid", as that depends on the definition of "stupid".
Spain would be a little bit of a hike for Russia.
Also, I don't think they've figured out how to control the temperature... at least not safely.
Given what it costs to deal with snow in a major city each year, $6 million sounds like money very well spent. Now if only someone would get the dome cities idea back on the table...
That simplicity in taxation would last about 12 minutes. After which it will be so horribly convoluted that nobody will sell to New York over the web.
It's even more complicated than that. We have at least 2 Cook County Sales & Use tax zones near the Itasca/EGV border that depend on street location, not county. Yet another complication separate of the Chicago city taxes you mentioned. Having started a couple here, I think it's fair to say Illinois sucks for business in pretty much every way imaginable. Oh and the weather sucks.
Well duh. If you're already hopelessly worthless at enforcing the rules you've always had, well just make more rules!
Pipe stills into Amazons Mechanical Turk service, take the most common locational guesses and go verify it in person. Cheap n' easy.