Also, the world should probably always have a few, even if they're locked in a drawer somewhere. Because aliens.
How's that gonna work then? Nukes are designed to land on Earth. Even if you found a way to launch them at a space target the nuclear fallout would probably fuck over everybody on Earth anyway, doing the aliens' job for them.
I hate that the BBC are so obsessed with voiceovers. Just use subtitles for God's sake, and that way we can actually hear the original language. Some of us prefer that to a voiceover.
Yeah yeah it's prejudiced against blind people... and voiceovers are prejudiced against deaf people.
You want to know how to start combatting this? Stop all Islamic immigration, and begin the process of de-Islamizing the US. Yeah, I'm well aware that I will sound extreme to most of you but I've become convinced, looking at the history of Islam, that Islam can NEVER peacefully co-exist with other cultures. All it has ever done is attack its neighbours and it continues to do so today. It will never be tamed or reformed. It can only be stopped.
Oh don't worry, I am voting with my (non-)dollars. I've just signed up for some more annual certs from StartCom. LetsEncrypt and their stubborn attitude can go hang. It's just disappointing, that's all.
Unfortunately, their MAXIMUM length of certificate is 90 days and it ain't getting longer; if anything they want to make them shorter in duration. So anyone who doesn't want to or can't, for whatever reason, run some cronjob on their server to auto-renew their certificates should give these guys a miss. Great shame that they let their "automate everything or GTFO" ideology override many people's legitimate need or desire for annual certificates.
The original goal of the fashion industry and catwalk models was simply to promote slim women - women who were a healthy weight. This was fair enough, and a decent goal - the happy medium. But the fashion industry didn't stop there. They became psychotic about thinness until the point where they now fetishize anorexic women who are very far from attractive and need to see a fucking doctor.
This seems to be what is happening with smartphones. The first iPhone was somewhat slim and just about right. The boasts about how slim it was were *in relation to* other thicker models at the time; not just about slimness *per se*. It was still a happy medium between slender attractiveness/lack of bulkiness, and utility. But the smartphone industry, led by Apple, is going the way of the fashion industry. It is now led by UX designers with a psychotic obsession with thinness because "that's attractive". Well if some iPhone user comes up to me with a credit card-width phone I'm going to say that my LG G3 is better. Not just because I have a proper headphone jack, replacable SIM card, SD card slot, and replacable battery. But also because the thing actually feels substantial when I hold it. I don't WANT it to be thinner. I don't WANT it to be the anorexic of smartphones.
All I can say is I hope some smartphone manufacturers break rank and start advertising that they are NOT trying to make their phones thinner than 1cm. If Apple want to do that, it's their funeral. I want a decent thickness phone with a good number of features and a decent battery life.
You think most of us don't know this? The BBC is the government's mouthpiece, so no matter how much they might feign annoyance at them they never actually scrap the fucking awful licence fee. The government would rather have the BBC as a mouthpiece than not, and it's extremely convenient for them as some people still believe the BBC is unbiased for some reason.
Isn't it amazing that Mozilla managed adequately to test all these "strange interactions" back in the days of Firefox 3 when they had fewer resources? I guess they were just less lazy then.
"Undo" isn't the same thing. This paradigm is not even saving the changes until they're confirmed, rather than saving and then undoing. To me this paradigm is better.
This is why those interfaces work. Let's take a scrolling view for example. The traditional approach is to put a scrollbar in, and that's what most everyone was doing before the iPhone came along. The scrollbar is discoverable and it provides visual feedback. Sounds good right? Well it turns out using a scrollbar on a mobile device is a miserable experience
What sucks is that they're taking the mobile solution, and applying it to PCs (and websites viewed on PCs). Minimalist UIs on my huge 1650x1050 monitor look downright ridiculous. Just how much space does one need for content? My screen has plenty. Give me bug buttons with text! And scrollbars? No, I don't want it hidden. Show it all the time and make it big and chunky enough for me to click on easily!
Basically, acknowledge that mobile and PC user interfaces can and SHOULD be rather different. This principle will never change.
Talking of universal ways to undo, I think it's tragic that we've lose the "OK | Apply | Cancel" paradigm. Microsoft came up with that in Windows 95 (or was it 3.x?) and I must have subconsciously used it countless times to just say "no, screw it, don't make ANY of those changes for now." Instead with Windows 10, they've jumped on the fucking stupid bandwagon of everybody else and now once something is changed, that's it. It's done and you have to remember exactly what to change back.
The UX team at Mozilla thought the Firefox 3 UI "stunk", and proceeded on a course of radical change that fucked up the user experience for a large proportion of there users, thereby losing them.
Before changing UX, be sure that it is needed. If it aint broke, for the love of god don't fix it.
Frankly, though, it is convenient. Much more so than cash. I don't want to have to regularly go and get a bunch of new physical items to pay people with.
Widely publicizing unsubstantiated accusations of someone having committed a heinous crime is "as it should be"? No it's not. We have due process for reasons, one of which is to prevent witch hunts and discourage false allegations.
The attitude of Conservative voters is perplexing. They're not even all total morons. At least not apparently. My former boss who started his own company that makes somewhat advanced software was a proud Conservative voter. God only knows why. I can only assume he paid attention to their tax policies and ignored their authoritarian bullshit or something.
Good luck with that these days, with all manufacturers boasting about how many pixels they can fit into a tiny area for improved video performance (and screw text size!)
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This from a country that spends half a trillion $ a year on defense.
Only if you install those particular updates. Set the update system NOT to auto-install and vet the updates every time.
Also, the world should probably always have a few, even if they're locked in a drawer somewhere. Because aliens.
How's that gonna work then? Nukes are designed to land on Earth. Even if you found a way to launch them at a space target the nuclear fallout would probably fuck over everybody on Earth anyway, doing the aliens' job for them.
Not allowing nuclear POWERED vessels? If their objection was to the nuclear power, then that was a pretty dumb "moral stance" to take.
I hate that the BBC are so obsessed with voiceovers. Just use subtitles for God's sake, and that way we can actually hear the original language. Some of us prefer that to a voiceover.
Yeah yeah it's prejudiced against blind people... and voiceovers are prejudiced against deaf people.
Nope, the constitution applies to citizens, not immigrants. His block on Muslims wouldn't apply to Muslims who were already citizens.
See that "jury box" there? That implies that what you're fighting is illegal or unconstitutional. What has Trump proposed that is either?
However, there are plenty of peaceful Muslim countries.
Really? Name one where the entire population hasn't been subjugated / converted to Islam. Name one that allows the building of churches.
You want to know how to start combatting this? Stop all Islamic immigration, and begin the process of de-Islamizing the US. Yeah, I'm well aware that I will sound extreme to most of you but I've become convinced, looking at the history of Islam, that Islam can NEVER peacefully co-exist with other cultures. All it has ever done is attack its neighbours and it continues to do so today. It will never be tamed or reformed. It can only be stopped.
Oh don't worry, I am voting with my (non-)dollars. I've just signed up for some more annual certs from StartCom. LetsEncrypt and their stubborn attitude can go hang. It's just disappointing, that's all.
Unfortunately, their MAXIMUM length of certificate is 90 days and it ain't getting longer; if anything they want to make them shorter in duration. So anyone who doesn't want to or can't, for whatever reason, run some cronjob on their server to auto-renew their certificates should give these guys a miss. Great shame that they let their "automate everything or GTFO" ideology override many people's legitimate need or desire for annual certificates.
They still produce fission products that must be stored for centuries.
Or fired into the sun.
The original goal of the fashion industry and catwalk models was simply to promote slim women - women who were a healthy weight. This was fair enough, and a decent goal - the happy medium. But the fashion industry didn't stop there. They became psychotic about thinness until the point where they now fetishize anorexic women who are very far from attractive and need to see a fucking doctor.
This seems to be what is happening with smartphones. The first iPhone was somewhat slim and just about right. The boasts about how slim it was were *in relation to* other thicker models at the time; not just about slimness *per se*. It was still a happy medium between slender attractiveness/lack of bulkiness, and utility. But the smartphone industry, led by Apple, is going the way of the fashion industry. It is now led by UX designers with a psychotic obsession with thinness because "that's attractive". Well if some iPhone user comes up to me with a credit card-width phone I'm going to say that my LG G3 is better. Not just because I have a proper headphone jack, replacable SIM card, SD card slot, and replacable battery. But also because the thing actually feels substantial when I hold it. I don't WANT it to be thinner. I don't WANT it to be the anorexic of smartphones.
All I can say is I hope some smartphone manufacturers break rank and start advertising that they are NOT trying to make their phones thinner than 1cm. If Apple want to do that, it's their funeral. I want a decent thickness phone with a good number of features and a decent battery life.
Bollocks. The currently government have guaranteed the licence fee for a further 10 years.
You think most of us don't know this? The BBC is the government's mouthpiece, so no matter how much they might feign annoyance at them they never actually scrap the fucking awful licence fee. The government would rather have the BBC as a mouthpiece than not, and it's extremely convenient for them as some people still believe the BBC is unbiased for some reason.
Isn't it amazing that Mozilla managed adequately to test all these "strange interactions" back in the days of Firefox 3 when they had fewer resources? I guess they were just less lazy then.
"Undo" isn't the same thing. This paradigm is not even saving the changes until they're confirmed, rather than saving and then undoing. To me this paradigm is better.
This is why those interfaces work. Let's take a scrolling view for example. The traditional approach is to put a scrollbar in, and that's what most everyone was doing before the iPhone came along. The scrollbar is discoverable and it provides visual feedback. Sounds good right? Well it turns out using a scrollbar on a mobile device is a miserable experience
What sucks is that they're taking the mobile solution, and applying it to PCs (and websites viewed on PCs). Minimalist UIs on my huge 1650x1050 monitor look downright ridiculous. Just how much space does one need for content? My screen has plenty. Give me bug buttons with text! And scrollbars? No, I don't want it hidden. Show it all the time and make it big and chunky enough for me to click on easily!
Basically, acknowledge that mobile and PC user interfaces can and SHOULD be rather different. This principle will never change.
Talking of universal ways to undo, I think it's tragic that we've lose the "OK | Apply | Cancel" paradigm. Microsoft came up with that in Windows 95 (or was it 3.x?) and I must have subconsciously used it countless times to just say "no, screw it, don't make ANY of those changes for now." Instead with Windows 10, they've jumped on the fucking stupid bandwagon of everybody else and now once something is changed, that's it. It's done and you have to remember exactly what to change back.
The UX team at Mozilla thought the Firefox 3 UI "stunk", and proceeded on a course of radical change that fucked up the user experience for a large proportion of there users, thereby losing them.
Before changing UX, be sure that it is needed. If it aint broke, for the love of god don't fix it.
Frankly, though, it is convenient. Much more so than cash. I don't want to have to regularly go and get a bunch of new physical items to pay people with.
Widely publicizing unsubstantiated accusations of someone having committed a heinous crime is "as it should be"? No it's not. We have due process for reasons, one of which is to prevent witch hunts and discourage false allegations.
The attitude of Conservative voters is perplexing. They're not even all total morons. At least not apparently. My former boss who started his own company that makes somewhat advanced software was a proud Conservative voter. God only knows why. I can only assume he paid attention to their tax policies and ignored their authoritarian bullshit or something.
just get a display with a low DPI.
Good luck with that these days, with all manufacturers boasting about how many pixels they can fit into a tiny area for improved video performance (and screw text size!)
It's still dangerous. Forgetting to take a dose can be fatal.