In all seriousness; how long until the military just deploys (via parachute drop, or soldier) robots into decent vantage points and then just get them to identify targets and have a remote operator push the button... scary stuff.
Odd, I see it. Appz is a "leet" plural of App which is itself a shorthand form of application. Another example on that page is warez, which is a "leet" shorthand plural form of software.
Please, stop making absurd comparisons. "Windows" doesn't really describe the product itself. If MS trademarked "Operating System" and then sued Red Hat for calling their OS "Red Hat Operating System", then it would a similar comparison. i.e Windows is not a generic term for the product itself, unlike "app store".
You are incorrect. Prior to Apple using the term, it did not exist (and I challenge anyone to prove otherwise). But more importantly, App Store is generically both a package manager and a software repository. "App Store" is no more a generic term than "Kleenex," or "Laundromat."
Here is something with a timestamp from 1999. It's not my first choice since Archive.org is refusing to cooperate. This is not an "early" use by any means. BBS systems from the 80s featuring warez (among other things) also featured the term "App".
Tabs are little things that display information in a concise way. See a filing cabinet or a website navigation for some common examples. I'm not a fan of the Ribbon interface but it's hard to not see the similarities between the two. Menus are also a graphical representation of a list, yet which is more accessible to the lay user? I find it hard to believe navigating multiple menu levels to be less of a pain in the ass and require less space. If menus are such paragons of accessing information why do keyboard shortcuts exist?
Ribbons in applications and O/S are not like tabs in browsers.
Quite right! However they do roughly provide functionality similar to tabs and if you were to explain the ribbon interface to someone from 1998 or to a lay person the tab anology would be one effective way. I googled "tab navigation" and one of the first results provides a great example of what are commonly referred to as "tabs".
Browsers show the same functional tools regardless of what tab you are on (similar to a sheet in excel). On the other hand ribbons hide different tools behinds 6-8 separate ribbon sections that are usually clicked through where all the buttons have a similar background and 'icons' making it hard to search through as opposed to a File - menu - list with text that a person can scan through in about 2 seconds.
Browsers tabs feature a description (typically the meta title) much like the ribbon interface. The content area below the title area changes when different "tabs" are selected, this functionality is present in both UI. I appreciate your comparison and you're correct with many details yet you do not seem to recognize these interface elements as tabs. Another example: We still have the start menu dynamic from Windows 95 today in Windows 7 (and similar features found in several popular window managers) whose interaction and function have changed little. Bar at the bottom featuring a button, click the button and a menu pops up, select items etc.
One can enable an overlay of key short cuts over the ribbon interface so you do not have to use the mouse however the search time still takes just as long unless you knew the key-binding shortcuts from previous versions.
Change is hard. One is more productive with a tool one is familiar with... perhaps you're not the target audience for these largely superficial changes. It also is apparent you're familiar with efficient usage (keyboard shortcuts) and these largely superficial changes shouldn't be difficult to figure out.
Interestingly enough there is a growing market for cannabis potency testing and one of the perks is knowing what type of nutrients are used. While this is a bit beyond (de)hydration the value goes beyond the plant matter. Various companies offer services in several states (California is not alone in the approval of medicinal cannabis), however consistency and practices vary wildly from company to company. A practical example: In the later stages of development some growers use nutrients which are high in potassium to increase density. In the majority of purchases the sale price revolves around weight.
Supply chain quality control is an immense benefit to both the collectives and members. As you're no doubt aware quality is determined by a number of factors such as taste, smell, effect etc. however knowing the THC-A & THC-9*, CBN, CBD of a crop is great for specific needs patients. The ability to test for mold quantities and pesticides is also interesting. Now imagine if the uniformed buyer is an elderly patient or perhaps an AIDS or cancer patient.
If during a bust they accidentally kill your family, the offending officer will be punished with a few weeks of paid vacation. They can do anything they want to you for any reason without recourse.
While I don't doubt this may occur it doesn't seem to be the case involving a shooting of a homeless man by Police in Seattle. King5. I'm not championing the Seattle Police, this is just something that stands out.
"Hi, I'm trying to watch some kittens on YouTube and it says I only have Internet 4 not Internet 6. I'm running Microsoft Internet 9, but it still doesn't work"
I find this funny! You sir, owe me a new keyboard;)
If you recall the scene in Return of the Jedi where Vader throws Palpatine down the shaft to his spectacular doom? Something like that just happened with your karma.
It's unfortunate that the theory doesn't link to the original Penny Arcade comic. Linking UrbanDictionary.com as a credible source, really? Penny Arcade. On the plus side at least you didn't link your own blog with a link to the reference...
But I'm not a lawyer and US justice system seems to do more to cover corporate executives (knowingly) illegal activities than to ensure justice overall. It 2008 financial crisis fiasco does not show that clearly than I don't know what is.
To nit pick, we don't have a justice system. We have a legal system. An analogy might be like learning the subtle difference between amoral and immoral. I agree with you fully.
Most people hate the Tolkien estate. Copyright was made to encourage creativity. The Tolkien estate is the best example of how copyright law is used to stifle it instead.
Surely you must be joking!? Disney > Tolkien on the evil-o-meter by a hilariously massive amount. Which company has lobbied for copyright extension or taken characters from the public domain? I don't really enjoy the current duration for copyrights or enforcement of trademark law in the US and please don't put me down as a Tolkien apologist but your 'best example' is laughable.
However if you have some affiliation with Disney I completely understand;)
Yes a giant joke *rolls eyes* speaking of jokes lets read your post. Sentences don't begin with And. How old are you, coward? Also you're a hyprocrite. You imply that I'm underestimating this group of people and incorrectly assuming that by posting here I'm unable to lurk another. I recall 3million get if that means anything to you. Since you can't get your other references correct why I keep feeding you is a mystery.
Fear of a mob isn't anything new, see Katrina, LA Riots etc. FYI if you don't want to make a point learn to do it correctly, it's really basic shit that avoids making the rest of what you say suspect.
If it's a label, not an entity, then how can it have "members"?
I don't know why people act as if "Anonymous" is a new thing. It's not. It's just a present-day version of something ancient - the lynch mob. The mob doesn't think, the mob doesn't consider, the mob just destroys. The mob is the barbarian horde burning down civilisation.
For a historical example of an earlier "Anonymous", think about the KKK. Just why did they wear those white hoods? The answer is easy. They did it to be "Anonymous", because if you are "Anonymous", you are released from the obligation to be a civilised human. You do what you like without consequence, so why not lynch a few negroes before they get uppity?
Germans love to say this, as seemingly implies that it was only him. Let's not forget that he was voted in...
Germany was so broke after WWI that they had to IMPORT their new fascist dictator.
Yes, broke because of France (and others) squeezing very tightly. This also played a big part in WWII, you know when they were crushed and occupied for a few years.
Yes, I'm sure there will be countless exploits that use maliciously crafted H.264 videos to target Chrome users that have installed MS's H.264 plugin...
I think the OP is switching the tables. From your post it appears you've missed the claims made in the past regarding a toolbar made by Google for use in Internet Explorer which Microsoft stated something along these lines.
I've seen some extremely tenuous FUD before, but wow!
While I can see how you may have this opinion, I'd like to understand your reasoning. How does adding more features (via plugins) mean less vulnerability? Feel free to use Flash as an example.
You make me despair. How are we going to get rid of the STUPID people who, without blinking, generalize about a billion people? There isn't a country in the world that hasn't suffered from this racist stupidity.
Person A laments stupidity while actively preaching it. Islam is not a race.
Depends how you read them. If you are looking for 'signs' in either one that you are to force domination over another you will find it in either text...well ANY lard text anyways. You could find sign in Moby Dick telling you to do what ever it is your looking to do.
But that doesn't mean they've suddenly become inhuman, a monster. As soon as you believe that, you lose any chance you might've had to fix the real problem, and to actually start to prevent this kind of thing.
Typically after the bomb goes off there is no bomber to talk to. When a person muders a bunch of innocents I think they're a monster. I understand that the people who organize and plan these events are the ones we should be going after.
Its a little sad that you would view someones death by suicide bombing-- even the bomber's-- as funny.
Seriously? You're bothered over people making jokes about someone that was killed before they could murder? On behalf of victims everywhere, FUCK YOU.
Of course during a war / struggle / conflict it is common to demonize the "enemy" inorder to make it easier to hate them, but you tend to lose some of your humanity in the process.
Someone trying to kill you is not your enemy? Easier to hate them? This person lost their humanity when they wanted they wanted to murder a bunch of people celebrating new years.
Welcome to 2011, where you can make software do what you want*. Oh, I need to chant free too. It's FREE! FREE! It costs you nothing and you don't HAVE to use it. It's a feature to counter situations just like this. Perhaps if a form didn't die and lose all your text when it fails to submit this wouldn't be a problem which a user has to deal with.
Slashdot Mirror
In all seriousness; how long until the military just deploys (via parachute drop, or soldier) robots into decent vantage points and then just get them to identify targets and have a remote operator push the button... scary stuff.
Who needs the military? Samsung makes robots like that for sentry duty, and has for years: http://media.abovetopsecret.com/media/854/Samsungs_Killbot/
What's with the Pirates of the Caribbean music about half way in? Avast! There be a robotic sentry, says I!
Odd, I see it. Appz is a "leet" plural of App which is itself a shorthand form of application. Another example on that page is warez, which is a "leet" shorthand plural form of software.
Merriam Webster definition of App which points at 1987 being the first use (I'm sure it was used before that).
You mean like things like "Windows" right?
Please, stop making absurd comparisons. "Windows" doesn't really describe the product itself. If MS trademarked "Operating System" and then sued Red Hat for calling their OS "Red Hat Operating System", then it would a similar comparison. i.e Windows is not a generic term for the product itself, unlike "app store".
You are incorrect. Prior to Apple using the term, it did not exist (and I challenge anyone to prove otherwise). But more importantly, App Store is generically both a package manager and a software repository. "App Store" is no more a generic term than "Kleenex," or "Laundromat."
Here is something with a timestamp from 1999. It's not my first choice since Archive.org is refusing to cooperate. This is not an "early" use by any means. BBS systems from the 80s featuring warez (among other things) also featured the term "App".
Tabs are little things that display information in a concise way. See a filing cabinet or a website navigation for some common examples. I'm not a fan of the Ribbon interface but it's hard to not see the similarities between the two. Menus are also a graphical representation of a list, yet which is more accessible to the lay user? I find it hard to believe navigating multiple menu levels to be less of a pain in the ass and require less space. If menus are such paragons of accessing information why do keyboard shortcuts exist?
Ribbons in applications and O/S are not like tabs in browsers.
Quite right! However they do roughly provide functionality similar to tabs and if you were to explain the ribbon interface to someone from 1998 or to a lay person the tab anology would be one effective way. I googled "tab navigation" and one of the first results provides a great example of what are commonly referred to as "tabs".
Browsers show the same functional tools regardless of what tab you are on (similar to a sheet in excel). On the other hand ribbons hide different tools behinds 6-8 separate ribbon sections that are usually clicked through where all the buttons have a similar background and 'icons' making it hard to search through as opposed to a File - menu - list with text that a person can scan through in about 2 seconds.
Browsers tabs feature a description (typically the meta title) much like the ribbon interface. The content area below the title area changes when different "tabs" are selected, this functionality is present in both UI. I appreciate your comparison and you're correct with many details yet you do not seem to recognize these interface elements as tabs. Another example: We still have the start menu dynamic from Windows 95 today in Windows 7 (and similar features found in several popular window managers) whose interaction and function have changed little. Bar at the bottom featuring a button, click the button and a menu pops up, select items etc.
One can enable an overlay of key short cuts over the ribbon interface so you do not have to use the mouse however the search time still takes just as long unless you knew the key-binding shortcuts from previous versions.
Change is hard. One is more productive with a tool one is familiar with... perhaps you're not the target audience for these largely superficial changes. It also is apparent you're familiar with efficient usage (keyboard shortcuts) and these largely superficial changes shouldn't be difficult to figure out.
Tabs? TABS? You mean those things that all the browsers have implemented?
Interestingly enough there is a growing market for cannabis potency testing and one of the perks is knowing what type of nutrients are used. While this is a bit beyond (de)hydration the value goes beyond the plant matter. Various companies offer services in several states (California is not alone in the approval of medicinal cannabis), however consistency and practices vary wildly from company to company. A practical example: In the later stages of development some growers use nutrients which are high in potassium to increase density. In the majority of purchases the sale price revolves around weight.
Supply chain quality control is an immense benefit to both the collectives and members. As you're no doubt aware quality is determined by a number of factors such as taste, smell, effect etc. however knowing the THC-A & THC-9*, CBN, CBD of a crop is great for specific needs patients. The ability to test for mold quantities and pesticides is also interesting. Now imagine if the uniformed buyer is an elderly patient or perhaps an AIDS or cancer patient.
* THC DELTA 9 (/. eats the symbol)
If during a bust they accidentally kill your family, the offending officer will be punished with a few weeks of paid vacation. They can do anything they want to you for any reason without recourse.
While I don't doubt this may occur it doesn't seem to be the case involving a shooting of a homeless man by Police in Seattle. King5. I'm not championing the Seattle Police, this is just something that stands out.
And states are passing laws to encourage it.
Is Washington State one of these states?
"Hi, I'm trying to watch some kittens on YouTube and it says I only have Internet 4 not Internet 6. I'm running Microsoft Internet 9, but it still doesn't work"
I find this funny! You sir, owe me a new keyboard ;)
Apple is copying Apple records. Apple is copying the ancient Romans by using their already developed counting system.
Perhaps Acrobat X doesn't run on Apple computers because they're not powerful enough xD? One key difference: Your computer is expensive.
If you recall the scene in Return of the Jedi where Vader throws Palpatine down the shaft to his spectacular doom? Something like that just happened with your karma.
It's unfortunate that the theory doesn't link to the original Penny Arcade comic. Linking UrbanDictionary.com as a credible source, really? Penny Arcade. On the plus side at least you didn't link your own blog with a link to the reference...
But I'm not a lawyer and US justice system seems to do more to cover corporate executives (knowingly) illegal activities than to ensure justice overall. It 2008 financial crisis fiasco does not show that clearly than I don't know what is.
To nit pick, we don't have a justice system. We have a legal system. An analogy might be like learning the subtle difference between amoral and immoral. I agree with you fully.
Most people hate the Tolkien estate. Copyright was made to encourage creativity. The Tolkien estate is the best example of how copyright law is used to stifle it instead.
Surely you must be joking!? Disney > Tolkien on the evil-o-meter by a hilariously massive amount. Which company has lobbied for copyright extension or taken characters from the public domain? I don't really enjoy the current duration for copyrights or enforcement of trademark law in the US and please don't put me down as a Tolkien apologist but your 'best example' is laughable.
;)
However if you have some affiliation with Disney I completely understand
Are you going to start with English?
Just sayin...
For the last friggin time...they're not engineers! They're programmers.
And, no, there's no such thing as a 'Sales Engineer' either.
For the last friggin time... they're not hackers! They're crackers!
Yes a giant joke *rolls eyes* speaking of jokes lets read your post. Sentences don't begin with And. How old are you, coward? Also you're a hyprocrite. You imply that I'm underestimating this group of people and incorrectly assuming that by posting here I'm unable to lurk another. I recall 3million get if that means anything to you. Since you can't get your other references correct why I keep feeding you is a mystery.
Fear of a mob isn't anything new, see Katrina, LA Riots etc. FYI if you don't want to make a point learn to do it correctly, it's really basic shit that avoids making the rest of what you say suspect.
If it's a label, not an entity, then how can it have "members"?
I don't know why people act as if "Anonymous" is a new thing. It's not. It's just a present-day version of something ancient - the lynch mob. The mob doesn't think, the mob doesn't consider, the mob just destroys. The mob is the barbarian horde burning down civilisation.
For a historical example of an earlier "Anonymous", think about the KKK. Just why did they wear those white hoods? The answer is easy. They did it to be "Anonymous", because if you are "Anonymous", you are released from the obligation to be a civilised human. You do what you like without consequence, so why not lynch a few negroes before they get uppity?
blah blah blah blah?
As XKCD says, "Anonymity + Audience = Asshole". Now, that's "Anonymous".
Ah, I love it when there is an (incorect) fictional reference. It's not a complete thread without this!
Technically, he was Austrian.
Germans love to say this, as seemingly implies that it was only him. Let's not forget that he was voted in...
Germany was so broke after WWI that they had to IMPORT their new fascist dictator.
Yes, broke because of France (and others) squeezing very tightly. This also played a big part in WWII, you know when they were crushed and occupied for a few years.
Yes, I'm sure there will be countless exploits that use maliciously crafted H.264 videos to target Chrome users that have installed MS's H.264 plugin...
I think the OP is switching the tables. From your post it appears you've missed the claims made in the past regarding a toolbar made by Google for use in Internet Explorer which Microsoft stated something along these lines.
I've seen some extremely tenuous FUD before, but wow!
While I can see how you may have this opinion, I'd like to understand your reasoning. How does adding more features (via plugins) mean less vulnerability? Feel free to use Flash as an example.
You make me despair. How are we going to get rid of the STUPID people who, without blinking, generalize about a billion people? There isn't a country in the world that hasn't suffered from this racist stupidity.
Person A laments stupidity while actively preaching it. Islam is not a race.
Depends how you read them. If you are looking for 'signs' in either one that you are to force domination over another you will find it in either text...well ANY lard text anyways. You could find sign in Moby Dick telling you to do what ever it is your looking to do.
*snicker* Is it made to appeal to fatties?
But that doesn't mean they've suddenly become inhuman, a monster. As soon as you believe that, you lose any chance you might've had to fix the real problem, and to actually start to prevent this kind of thing.
Typically after the bomb goes off there is no bomber to talk to. When a person muders a bunch of innocents I think they're a monster. I understand that the people who organize and plan these events are the ones we should be going after.
Its a little sad that you would view someones death by suicide bombing-- even the bomber's-- as funny.
Seriously? You're bothered over people making jokes about someone that was killed before they could murder? On behalf of victims everywhere, FUCK YOU.
Of course during a war / struggle / conflict it is common to demonize the "enemy" inorder to make it easier to hate them, but you tend to lose some of your humanity in the process.
Someone trying to kill you is not your enemy? Easier to hate them? This person lost their humanity when they wanted they wanted to murder a bunch of people celebrating new years.
Firefox has an extension for clipboards now!?
Welcome to 2011, where you can make software do what you want*. Oh, I need to chant free too. It's FREE! FREE! It costs you nothing and you don't HAVE to use it. It's a feature to counter situations just like this. Perhaps if a form didn't die and lose all your text when it fails to submit this wouldn't be a problem which a user has to deal with.
* most software anyway.