I'm glad I'm not the only one who has been unable with this trend.
I can think of two reasons for it:
I'm an engineer, prefer dense/useful information more than the average person, who may respond more to pleasant look/feel first. Others on Slashdot are likely more similar to me than to the average user.
Also, maybe the problem is that Google Maps is free. If they had to compete for my money, they would have probably lost it when they forced me off the legacy version a year or two ago. But if they add a feature which makes it worse, but directs 5% more Web traffic to a photo printing service, or serves more ads or something, unfortunately they should choose profit over a better product... and I'm getting what I paid for.
Please forgive AC. s/he is probably from Canada. The idea of not having already received a technologically easy treatment because - gawsh-darn-it, only the rich should be able to afford it - is foreign to us.
Health effects, whatever. I feel better when I can change positions every now and then. Sitting all day leaves me feeling tired and my back gets sore (yes, I've tried lots of different chairs). With a sit/stand desk I change positions every hour or two, switching between standing, sitting on a moderately-ergonomic desk chair and sitting on an exercise ball. The latter is actually fairly hard work to sustain for a long time, but I think my core has gotten stronger for doing it. Standing eventually makes my feet hurt. No one position is ideal, but changing it up seems to work great.
My experience is identical, although I have rarely used the exercise ball. I had serious back problems a few years ago, and still find it gets very stiff and close to dangerous territory if sitting for more than 1/2 hour or so - but it's so nice not to be pulled away from work that I'm focused on when the back tells me "you have to move now". Just push a couple buttons, now I'm standing and still comfortably typing and looking at my screen.
I needed a doctor's note to get the standing desk, because from luck of the draw, my group wasn't in the majority area that already had them, but it was great for my SHORT-TERM (every day) well being and health and productivity. I don't NEED a long term study to see the benefits.
(side note, I've since been laid off, but haven't had any more back spasms since moving to the standing desk, and I remember how much better I felt, daily, at work). Trying to save money, but thinking about getting one at home.
I love eating bananas so much, I was shocked and scared when I read "Yes, we'll have no bananas" in a (paper) edition of The Globe and Mail (Canada's National Newspaper) in 2003
http://www.commondreams.org/vi...
There is a huge problem. If there is no healthy place for the fish to exist there is no place for them to come back from. One river being polluted can be cured when other waterways exist to restock the river once cleaned up. But what is happening is a holocaust of near 100% efficiency. Before 1492 we had unimaginable fish stocks in the N. Atlantic. Now we have far less than 1% of what we had back then.
The first article I read said that he took time after his wife first spotted it, to go inside and load the gun, so I don't think things happened as you suggest.
By "context menu key", do you mean right-click? I'm assuming the mention of Right-click is either a mistake, or skewed by an inordinate amount of Mac users with their single button philosophy.
I don't see how you are doing anything productively (with a mouse) if you aren't using right-click.
If you aren't using a mouse at all, like for command line work or vi/vim, that's fine.
Yeah, I remember the pain of shift lock on my Commodore 64. I wished for the concept of caps lock instead. Of course in those days I was a child, not a developer, and had almost no use for underscore - it was much more likely that I wanted dash.
But the number argument wins out above all.
I fondly remember this - it was way better than Doom, and the only game I really ever played a lot and mastered, thanks to my own customized keyboard layout that let me move in several combinations of those "6 degrees" at once.
I assume by 6 degrees they mean the 3 ways of sliding/strafing (forward-backward, up/down, and left-right), + the 3 ways of rotating (pitch, yaw, roll).
It just sounds funny to hear "6 degrees" - it makes me think of 1/60th of a circle - not exactly freedom.
(Loved using the University's networks to play with a few friends late at night.)
I for one welcome our semi-annual time-changing overlords.
Except when it's "spring forward" on the weekend of the Niagara Falls Ringette Tournament, which is a bad time for the kids you coach to lose an extra hour of sleep before an early morning Sunday game.
China plans to keep INCREASING emissions for the next 16 years?
Aren't we already pretty much past the point of no return for dramatic climate change now? So when we're all in 2030, with far more noticeable effects of global warming than we have seen yet today, we're all going to dance and cheer because now China's emissions will start going down, which might mean benefits a few decades out from there? And they're going to say "Thanks so much, people of 2014" for making sure that our current suffering due to sea level rise and breathing in air pollution is going to start reversing around 2045!
This isn't an American-supported effort to drain a renewed aggressive stance from the former Soviet Union? I thought low oil prices is one major vector that Reagan used to hasten the collapse of the Soviet Union, so I assumed this was kind of a response to Putin's actions in the Ukraine.
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> It isn't that strange. Because if you did listen to the news or watch television, then no, you didn't know about the 'threat', because what has been repeated time after time is 'there is no threat, relax, we can deal with this, we're prepared'.
No, it is strange. The "there is no threat, relax" message is not actually said in those words, (but close enough), is addressed to the non-medical public, and the motive to reduce panic in the populace is a correct one. The "we're prepared" part means that "we" medical staff, supposedly INCLUDING nurses in Texas, have an ounce of intelligence and training, and are in fact prepared. If the first nurse in Texas had bothered to be aware, training or not, of the outbreak in Africa, and made sure the Doctor was informed of the patient self-reporting that he had been to Liberia, none of this would have happened on US soil. What kind of idiot doesn't realize that it's CRITICAL to pass on this information repeatedly until it is acknowledged? I could see that, with no nurse training whatsoever.
Now we are one or two steps perilously closer to that critical mass where you can't track down everyone that all the people had contact with, as mentioned by in earlier comment.
First of all, anyone who didn't realize that drivers will make use of this information, is not worthy to be working on, or studying, this project.
Secondly, this information is USEFUL to drivers and should be INTENTIONALLY given to them. I personally slow down for a lot more intersections than I used to because I can see in advance that I won't be able to make it. Yes, in a minority of situations, I speed up , so that I get through the intersection rather than miss it by a second or two, but I don't do this at the expense of safety, why would I? Oh right, I forgot, many drivers do not have a clue as to how to pay attention to all aspects of their on-road environment, but we let them drive anyway because driving is important to North American society on the whole.
The solution is not to remove information from competent drivers. Remove the incompetent drivers!
P.S. It also wouldn't kill cities to have better light timing (I'm looking at you, @citywaterloo) so that drivers don't feel so frustrated at being constantly robbed of time and momentum for poor reasons, and then maybe you'd have fewer people making bad judgement calls and choosing to race a light counter when they are too far back to safely do so.
I used to rejoice at stuff like this - like when you could get more than one chocolate bar from a vending machine because of the way they were stacked.
But in my older years I have got to wondering about the ethics of it. You wouldn't steal a pop or a chocolate bar from a convenience store, even if you were 100% sure there were no video cameras, no other customers or cops around, and you saw the only employee walk into a bathroom at the far end of the store and leave you completely unattended (and heard him doing something nasty that would surely take a long time).
So when it came to the chocolate bars, fine, I could rationalize that if I didn't take the free one that came out (maybe after an extra hip-check to the side of the machine), the next person would. But for the more obvious case of mashing buttons to intentionally get a free one, how is it different than stealing?
(BTW, I don't think I'm better than you, I've done this too - just re-visiting it mentally now)
For some reason, for myself and many others, if something is on the honour system, we would never steal from it, but the more defenses people try to put up to prevent me from getting something free, the more I want to circumvent those defenses and take something for free anyway.... it's very weird.
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I can think of two reasons for it:
I'm an engineer, prefer dense/useful information more than the average person, who may respond more to pleasant look/feel first. Others on Slashdot are likely more similar to me than to the average user.
Also, maybe the problem is that Google Maps is free. If they had to compete for my money, they would have probably lost it when they forced me off the legacy version a year or two ago. But if they add a feature which makes it worse, but directs 5% more Web traffic to a photo printing service, or serves more ads or something, unfortunately they should choose profit over a better product... and I'm getting what I paid for.
Please forgive AC. s/he is probably from Canada. The idea of not having already received a technologically easy treatment because - gawsh-darn-it, only the rich should be able to afford it - is foreign to us.
... a HOT, blue, humanoid alien, maybe with monkey-like abilities, and a tail....
Health effects, whatever. I feel better when I can change positions every now and then. Sitting all day leaves me feeling tired and my back gets sore (yes, I've tried lots of different chairs). With a sit/stand desk I change positions every hour or two, switching between standing, sitting on a moderately-ergonomic desk chair and sitting on an exercise ball. The latter is actually fairly hard work to sustain for a long time, but I think my core has gotten stronger for doing it. Standing eventually makes my feet hurt. No one position is ideal, but changing it up seems to work great.
My experience is identical, although I have rarely used the exercise ball. I had serious back problems a few years ago, and still find it gets very stiff and close to dangerous territory if sitting for more than 1/2 hour or so - but it's so nice not to be pulled away from work that I'm focused on when the back tells me "you have to move now". Just push a couple buttons, now I'm standing and still comfortably typing and looking at my screen.
I needed a doctor's note to get the standing desk, because from luck of the draw, my group wasn't in the majority area that already had them, but it was great for my SHORT-TERM (every day) well being and health and productivity. I don't NEED a long term study to see the benefits.
(side note, I've since been laid off, but haven't had any more back spasms since moving to the standing desk, and I remember how much better I felt, daily, at work). Trying to save money, but thinking about getting one at home.
I love eating bananas so much, I was shocked and scared when I read "Yes, we'll have no bananas" in a (paper) edition of The Globe and Mail (Canada's National Newspaper) in 2003 http://www.commondreams.org/vi...
There is a huge problem. If there is no healthy place for the fish to exist there is no place for them to come back from. One river being polluted can be cured when other waterways exist to restock the river once cleaned up. But what is happening is a holocaust of near 100% efficiency. Before 1492 we had unimaginable fish stocks in the N. Atlantic. Now we have far less than 1% of what we had back then.
+1
The first article I read said that he took time after his wife first spotted it, to go inside and load the gun, so I don't think things happened as you suggest.
I'm no fan of guns, but keep your expensive flying camera toys away from private property, or accept what might happen!
Just because it's kinda cool that everyone CAN control the position of their camera in 3-space now, doesn't mean that they should.
Me, I want Android to return the ability to selectively turn off stuff that apps can do
FYI, you can do this in BlackBerry10 OS.
By "context menu key", do you mean right-click? I'm assuming the mention of Right-click is either a mistake, or skewed by an inordinate amount of Mac users with their single button philosophy. I don't see how you are doing anything productively (with a mouse) if you aren't using right-click. If you aren't using a mouse at all, like for command line work or vi/vim, that's fine.
Yeah, I remember the pain of shift lock on my Commodore 64. I wished for the concept of caps lock instead. Of course in those days I was a child, not a developer, and had almost no use for underscore - it was much more likely that I wanted dash. But the number argument wins out above all.
+1. He was clearly talking like an Italian mechanic "small business owner". (I am half Italian)
http://ask.slashdot.org/story/...
I assume by 6 degrees they mean the 3 ways of sliding/strafing (forward-backward, up/down, and left-right), + the 3 ways of rotating (pitch, yaw, roll).
It just sounds funny to hear "6 degrees" - it makes me think of 1/60th of a circle - not exactly freedom.
(Loved using the University's networks to play with a few friends late at night.)
I for one welcome our semi-annual time-changing overlords.
Except when it's "spring forward" on the weekend of the Niagara Falls Ringette Tournament, which is a bad time for the kids you coach to lose an extra hour of sleep before an early morning Sunday game.
Aren't we already pretty much past the point of no return for dramatic climate change now? So when we're all in 2030, with far more noticeable effects of global warming than we have seen yet today, we're all going to dance and cheer because now China's emissions will start going down, which might mean benefits a few decades out from there? And they're going to say "Thanks so much, people of 2014" for making sure that our current suffering due to sea level rise and breathing in air pollution is going to start reversing around 2045!
This isn't an American-supported effort to drain a renewed aggressive stance from the former Soviet Union? I thought low oil prices is one major vector that Reagan used to hasten the collapse of the Soviet Union, so I assumed this was kind of a response to Putin's actions in the Ukraine.
> It isn't that strange. Because if you did listen to the news or watch television, then no, you didn't know about the 'threat', because what has been repeated time after time is 'there is no threat, relax, we can deal with this, we're prepared'.
No, it is strange. The "there is no threat, relax" message is not actually said in those words, (but close enough), is addressed to the non-medical public, and the motive to reduce panic in the populace is a correct one. The "we're prepared" part means that "we" medical staff, supposedly INCLUDING nurses in Texas, have an ounce of intelligence and training, and are in fact prepared. If the first nurse in Texas had bothered to be aware, training or not, of the outbreak in Africa, and made sure the Doctor was informed of the patient self-reporting that he had been to Liberia, none of this would have happened on US soil. What kind of idiot doesn't realize that it's CRITICAL to pass on this information repeatedly until it is acknowledged? I could see that, with no nurse training whatsoever.
Now we are one or two steps perilously closer to that critical mass where you can't track down everyone that all the people had contact with, as mentioned by in earlier comment.
(and I don't have mod points, so enjoy this comment).
I'm guessing BlackBerry is immune to this?
Why do I not have mod points when I see a late comment like this that deserves to be seen!
Secondly, this information is USEFUL to drivers and should be INTENTIONALLY given to them. I personally slow down for a lot more intersections than I used to because I can see in advance that I won't be able to make it. Yes, in a minority of situations, I speed up , so that I get through the intersection rather than miss it by a second or two, but I don't do this at the expense of safety, why would I? Oh right, I forgot, many drivers do not have a clue as to how to pay attention to all aspects of their on-road environment, but we let them drive anyway because driving is important to North American society on the whole.
The solution is not to remove information from competent drivers. Remove the incompetent drivers!
P.S. It also wouldn't kill cities to have better light timing (I'm looking at you, @citywaterloo) so that drivers don't feel so frustrated at being constantly robbed of time and momentum for poor reasons, and then maybe you'd have fewer people making bad judgement calls and choosing to race a light counter when they are too far back to safely do so.
... farmers in cold norther climes who would benefit from longer growing seasons?
It's not that they "don't believe" in climage change, just that they want us to keep doing it!
But in my older years I have got to wondering about the ethics of it. You wouldn't steal a pop or a chocolate bar from a convenience store, even if you were 100% sure there were no video cameras, no other customers or cops around, and you saw the only employee walk into a bathroom at the far end of the store and leave you completely unattended (and heard him doing something nasty that would surely take a long time).
So when it came to the chocolate bars, fine, I could rationalize that if I didn't take the free one that came out (maybe after an extra hip-check to the side of the machine), the next person would. But for the more obvious case of mashing buttons to intentionally get a free one, how is it different than stealing?
(BTW, I don't think I'm better than you, I've done this too - just re-visiting it mentally now)
For some reason, for myself and many others, if something is on the honour system, we would never steal from it, but the more defenses people try to put up to prevent me from getting something free, the more I want to circumvent those defenses and take something for free anyway.... it's very weird.
+1 Mod parent UP. On a "news for nerds" site, that kind of wording (underlined due to being a link, no less), cannot pass un-mocked.