Safari is so broken I never use it. Periodically it reaches a point where all future attempts to connect to a web site fail with Safari hanging indefinitely as if waiting for a response from the server. Happens on a friend's Mac too.
Not only does Firefox work better on the Mac, it actually looks better than Safari, pretty weird given that we're talking about an Apple application here. So as long as Google properly support Firefox I'm happy. (Though I slightly prefer Safari RSS handling.)
We over-react to intentional actions, and under-react to accidents
I disagree. When we react strongly to intentional actions it has a strong effect on those who are doing the intending. Just showing outrage can be enough to scare people into backing down. But natural disasters don't care how much outrage you show. So I wouldn't call it over-reacting. I'd call it rational reaction.
The GP is dealing with it. They're dealing with it by bringing it to other people's attention so that they realise exactly what they're buying and what their future options may or may not be. This allows other people (like me) to make a more informed purchase decision and may (or may not) ultimately put pressure on Apple to comply with the GP's wishes. This is one good way to "deal with it" in a free market economy. Efficient free markets require the free flow of information and people who bitch and moan are an important part of that flow.
There is a common belief out there that the free market is all good and we should just suck up its results. On the contrary, the free market is good precisely because there are people who don't just suck it up.
So now we need to compare experimental scientists on a calorie-restricted diet with theoretical scientists. If the experimental scientists live longer we know that it's because they eat fewer calories AND spend most of their time in a lab, and that the rest of us need to do more lab time.
Stop phrasing this in terms of smart/not smart despite your pretended anti-elitist cloak of "I believe in people". I'm smart enough to install and configure my OS even if it means building my own kernel and hacking the drivers because when I was 10 years younger, that's what I used to do. But those days are over. I've spent way too much time learning esoteric facts about one operating system. Now I just want it to work. I resent the implication that I'm lazy and ignorant. I want it to just work because I want to spend time writing code that's challenging and interesting without having to waste my time on menial tasks like device driver hacking and trying to figure out how to install the latest packages without breaking the stupid dependencies in my already installed packages. That's why I now use MacOS X and Windows at home and let the sysadmins take care of Linux configuration at work.
When we explained our opinion to the MedIndustry drones, they were incredulous and kept trying to pressure us into the tests.
Well I agree with you that it's bizarre for people to insist on such testing in a situation where it could serve you no possible benefit and I'm glad you stuck to your guns. But obviously some people do have their interests served by such testing.
Both girls have hairless flat spots on the backs of their heads.
Haven't the parents heard of "tummy time"? I have a flat area on my head from 40 years ago. I wonder if it was caused by my lying on my back? Whatever, it's harmless and I've been told my head has a nice shape:-)
what difference would knowing this beforehand make, other than a stressed-out pregnant woman?
Well it's useful if you could abort a baby with Down's Syndrome. I know I certainly would.
A large proportion of people put their babies to sleep on their backs. If skull deformity were assured there'd a large proportion of the population with skull deformity.
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Ugh! It's weird how even in the early days PDAs have had hardware that outclasses workstations from the days of yore and yet MS saw fit only to manage the memory like a PDA was some kind of toy machine. Still, I won't criticise too loudly, PalmOS is even worse.
But there's nothing wrong with the NPR programming
NPR reminds me of Radio 4 back in the UK. In fact, NPR is exactly what's left when you take Radio 4 and remove the entertaining and interesting bits. Except for This American Life which is as good as anything on Radio 4.
The sound effects remind me of (bad) computer games from the 80s. And the whole grid of faces reminded me of the Brady Bunch. On the other hand, Boards of Canada use music from educational film strips and I like them.
Anything can be your worst nightmare, even the cure for cancer. If I'm going to think about objects in the universe that might be used for criminal purposes I think I'd rate string somewhat higher than phones with GPS units.
...put my brain into "simulate teenager mode". My attention span ran out before the "Buddy Builder" splash screen had finished appearing. Sometimes I wonder if the people who make these kinds of things have any contact with teens.
(1) Antarctica has a warm history and (2) the commonality of biochemistry between all known organisms suggests that all life on Earth appears to be descended from a common ancestor. Either of these points on its own makes your question moot.
Just dump a bunch of them on Mars. This would be the most awesome and interesting biological experiment in the history of biological experimentation. Will the lack of competition mean they take over the planet? Or will they die of for some unforeseen reason. And if they do take over, what exactly will happen? How will they change the environment? How long before we can see adaptations to the local environment?
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Not only does Firefox work better on the Mac, it actually looks better than Safari, pretty weird given that we're talking about an Apple application here. So as long as Google properly support Firefox I'm happy. (Though I slightly prefer Safari RSS handling.)
The GP is dealing with it. They're dealing with it by bringing it to other people's attention so that they realise exactly what they're buying and what their future options may or may not be. This allows other people (like me) to make a more informed purchase decision and may (or may not) ultimately put pressure on Apple to comply with the GP's wishes. This is one good way to "deal with it" in a free market economy. Efficient free markets require the free flow of information and people who bitch and moan are an important part of that flow.
There is a common belief out there that the free market is all good and we should just suck up its results. On the contrary, the free market is good precisely because there are people who don't just suck it up.
So now we need to compare experimental scientists on a calorie-restricted diet with theoretical scientists. If the experimental scientists live longer we know that it's because they eat fewer calories AND spend most of their time in a lab, and that the rest of us need to do more lab time.
Stop phrasing this in terms of smart/not smart despite your pretended anti-elitist cloak of "I believe in people". I'm smart enough to install and configure my OS even if it means building my own kernel and hacking the drivers because when I was 10 years younger, that's what I used to do. But those days are over. I've spent way too much time learning esoteric facts about one operating system. Now I just want it to work. I resent the implication that I'm lazy and ignorant. I want it to just work because I want to spend time writing code that's challenging and interesting without having to waste my time on menial tasks like device driver hacking and trying to figure out how to install the latest packages without breaking the stupid dependencies in my already installed packages. That's why I now use MacOS X and Windows at home and let the sysadmins take care of Linux configuration at work.
I just hope that these dinasaur spawning overloards can spell.
A large proportion of people put their babies to sleep on their backs. If skull deformity were assured there'd a large proportion of the population with skull deformity.
That's one brave ex-CIA agent!
Ugh! It's weird how even in the early days PDAs have had hardware that outclasses workstations from the days of yore and yet MS saw fit only to manage the memory like a PDA was some kind of toy machine. Still, I won't criticise too loudly, PalmOS is even worse.
Why repeat hearsay when you can Google for The Truth?
I nominate you for a Sokal-Bogdanoff award!
It's "per se", not "persay". I tell you this, not to be a grammar Nazi, but to spare you future embarassment.
Huge leap? The 32->32,000 part was probably something like changing
#define MAX_PROCESSES 32
to
#define MAX_PROCESSES 32768
Idiot.
Photon-photon scattering, with a Feynman diagram that explains all.
The sound effects remind me of (bad) computer games from the 80s. And the whole grid of faces reminded me of the Brady Bunch. On the other hand, Boards of Canada use music from educational film strips and I like them.
Anything can be your worst nightmare, even the cure for cancer. If I'm going to think about objects in the universe that might be used for criminal purposes I think I'd rate string somewhat higher than phones with GPS units.
...put my brain into "simulate teenager mode". My attention span ran out before the "Buddy Builder" splash screen had finished appearing. Sometimes I wonder if the people who make these kinds of things have any contact with teens.
(1) Antarctica has a warm history and (2) the commonality of biochemistry between all known organisms suggests that all life on Earth appears to be descended from a common ancestor. Either of these points on its own makes your question moot.
Just dump a bunch of them on Mars. This would be the most awesome and interesting biological experiment in the history of biological experimentation. Will the lack of competition mean they take over the planet? Or will they die of for some unforeseen reason. And if they do take over, what exactly will happen? How will they change the environment? How long before we can see adaptations to the local environment?