Annoying as it might be, the very fact that people think slide to unlock is trivial means it shouldn't matter.
That's a complete non-sequitur. There's are a bunch of things that are trivial but you that doesn't mean you would therefore be OK with doing them differently. A car's accelerator pedal (what, use a hand pedal instead?) A speaker's volume knob (use... a slider? very irritating.) A numeric pad (rearrange the numbers?)
Slide-to-unlock is trivial, but it is a very nice and intuative way of unlocking a screen. Patents should not be granted if they are trivial to someone skilled in the art.
Or when you hit, and they turned out to be innocents. Or when you hit, and you know full fucking well innocents will die but you go ahead anyway. Like with double-taps.
The possibility of using e.g mini HDMI connectors to couple them to larger monitors is one solution, but I think a much better one would be to connect them to head-mounted displays (HMDs).
But then you'll get accosted and attacked in McDonald's...
Would we scream afoul of gun ownership if this guy had swords or throwing knives and killed people that way, and then some citizen who legally carried a concealed weapon stopped this guy with the concealed weapon?
This is a ridiculous strawman. When was the last time someone killed 12 people in one go using swords or knives (Kill Bill doesn't count)? Guns make it easier to kill a load of people. Don't pretend that insane people would be as successful using some other weapon, because it's a lazy argument - they wouldn't.
Creating restrictive laws has never stopped someone whose intent is mass damage.
Britain has ultra-restrictive gun laws, and much less mass damage per capita than the US. Same with Japan.
Depends how you define a massacre, but across the country you have 50 people a day dying from guns. In the UK we have maybe 10 people dying in one day from one event, every few years, and it makes the national headlines for weeks in a row. Personally I prefer the knowledge that I'm almost certainly not going to get hit by a bullet, especially one from a random crazy.
That page also shows that the US is miles in the lead in #1 position with 88.8 guns per capita (almost 1 gun per person, how sweet... maybe every newborn kiddie should get a gun as a cot toy) compared to #2 position - Serbia - with 58.2 guns per capita.
Every programming job I've been in has been in an open-plan office. If most of your jobs involve sitting in a cube all day, I really feel sorry for you Yanks. Then again you do tend to work ungodly long hours too.
Because I was getting the impression that the point of sports was to shift more Big Macs and pitchers of Coke
You're not kidding. All branded food/drink except McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Cadbury and Heineken will be banned during the London Olympics (as well as any Olympics-related free speech). I'm lovin' it.
The problem with KDE is that none of the leading distros feature it in a leading role. Linux is utterly dominated by Ubuntu and Fedora; act like a Windows-only person who knows nothing about Linux and google for "linux" and you'll probably find all kinds of stuff about Ubuntu, with Fedora a distant #2. There are distros that feature KDE, such as Chakra, Linux Mint KDE edition, Kubuntu, and of course SUSE, but someone new to Linux isn't going to see any of those; they'll be lucky if they stumble across SUSE somehow, amid all the Ubuntu stuff everywhere, but the others are hopeless.
Seems to me such a person has the wrong idea about how to use Linux. You should really be exploring different window managers, but of course if you come from a Windows background that's a foreign idea to you - which is perhaps why leading distros should make more effort to highlight the choice available. Personally I've settled on XFCE on Debian until or unless I can find something that's more like an incremental improvement on GNOME2.
However, what I don't understand is why the subject of the story just didn't leave McDonalds. Honestly, you're in a city full of excellent, and sometimes inexpensive, cuisine.
They eat frogs' legs, snails, foie gras, mange tout, and steak tartare. McDonalds was probably the best cuisine they had!
Didn't try very hard, did he? There may not be an e-mail address there, but there's a phone number, in Paris, that he can call and speak to a human being who would be very interested to find out the details of the alleged assault, and would almost certainly give him an address where he can send the photos.
Mais peut-etre qu'il ne parle pas le bon franÃais.;-)
Why? Justify that assertion. Is it not the case that the vast majority of profits for the vast majority of copyrighted works get made in the first 5 years after release, let alone the first 10? How is it a greater public good to help the odd outlier that is still going strong after 50 years make money, as opposed to letting many millions of people enjoy quality works for free once they've made a good profit (if they're ever going to)?
I know it's popular to sound all level-headed and point out the law, but many of us think copyright law desperately needs an overhaul. I, for one, would like to see anything released over 10 years ago go into the public domain. Then, much of the Megaupload activity would've been legal.
Did you stop using Office when it was at the 2003 version? I don't have many problems using Outlook 2010 on Windows 7 and finding stuff, and I'm horrible at filing and deleting, my mailbox is full of crap.
Problem is, they completely fucked up quoting in Outlook 2010. You used to be able to have multiple levels of quotes (multiple blue lines down the left), and break them up with inline responses. Now you can't because they switched to Word's stupid editor which generates hideous HTML or OOXML.
That's because Outlook generally *comes* with the rest of the Office suite. Those who want Outlook's functionality without the rest of the suite generally use something like Outlook that isn't Outlook.
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Wow. This should be framed and hung up in every classroom as an example of what happens if you don't study English grammar.
Annoying as it might be, the very fact that people think slide to unlock is trivial means it shouldn't matter.
That's a complete non-sequitur. There's are a bunch of things that are trivial but you that doesn't mean you would therefore be OK with doing them differently. A car's accelerator pedal (what, use a hand pedal instead?) A speaker's volume knob (use... a slider? very irritating.) A numeric pad (rearrange the numbers?)
Slide-to-unlock is trivial, but it is a very nice and intuative way of unlocking a screen. Patents should not be granted if they are trivial to someone skilled in the art.
Or when you hit, and they turned out to be innocents. Or when you hit, and you know full fucking well innocents will die but you go ahead anyway. Like with double-taps.
To be honest, I'm completely baffled by the google+ feed. It's very difficult to make "seen" things go away.
Try clicking on the icon in the top-right corner and clicking "mute this post".
So your answer seems to be "3 years ago". Not exactly an everyday occurance.
The possibility of using e.g mini HDMI connectors to couple them to larger monitors is one solution, but I think a much better one would be to connect them to head-mounted displays (HMDs).
But then you'll get accosted and attacked in McDonald's...
Would we scream afoul of gun ownership if this guy had swords or throwing knives and killed people that way, and then some citizen who legally carried a concealed weapon stopped this guy with the concealed weapon?
This is a ridiculous strawman. When was the last time someone killed 12 people in one go using swords or knives (Kill Bill doesn't count)? Guns make it easier to kill a load of people. Don't pretend that insane people would be as successful using some other weapon, because it's a lazy argument - they wouldn't.
Creating restrictive laws has never stopped someone whose intent is mass damage.
Britain has ultra-restrictive gun laws, and much less mass damage per capita than the US. Same with Japan.
In America, we too have VERY few massacres.
Depends how you define a massacre, but across the country you have 50 people a day dying from guns. In the UK we have maybe 10 people dying in one day from one event, every few years, and it makes the national headlines for weeks in a row. Personally I prefer the knowledge that I'm almost certainly not going to get hit by a bullet, especially one from a random crazy.
That page also shows that the US is miles in the lead in #1 position with 88.8 guns per capita (almost 1 gun per person, how sweet... maybe every newborn kiddie should get a gun as a cot toy) compared to #2 position - Serbia - with 58.2 guns per capita.
Really? When was the last time a random crazy killed more than 5 people with something other than a gun?
But surveys have been constantly reporting that the ideal breast size is 'C' in terms of aesthetic appeal.
So you're telling me Scarlett Johanson and Angelina Jolie should get breast reduction surgery so they're more aesthetically pleasing?
Every programming job I've been in has been in an open-plan office. If most of your jobs involve sitting in a cube all day, I really feel sorry for you Yanks. Then again you do tend to work ungodly long hours too.
in some societies, you sacrifice a goat for weddings, in others you break a wine glass
but murder is wrong in all societies
Tell that to the US troops who killed at least 120,000 Iraqi civilians during the last 10 years...
Because I was getting the impression that the point of sports was to shift more Big Macs and pitchers of Coke
You're not kidding. All branded food/drink except McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Cadbury and Heineken will be banned during the London Olympics (as well as any Olympics-related free speech). I'm lovin' it.
God you're a killjoy.
I don't see what the problem is. Outside of the US, most anyone in business speaks english anyway.
I just wish the people *in* the US could speak English.
The problem with KDE is that none of the leading distros feature it in a leading role. Linux is utterly dominated by Ubuntu and Fedora; act like a Windows-only person who knows nothing about Linux and google for "linux" and you'll probably find all kinds of stuff about Ubuntu, with Fedora a distant #2. There are distros that feature KDE, such as Chakra, Linux Mint KDE edition, Kubuntu, and of course SUSE, but someone new to Linux isn't going to see any of those; they'll be lucky if they stumble across SUSE somehow, amid all the Ubuntu stuff everywhere, but the others are hopeless.
Seems to me such a person has the wrong idea about how to use Linux. You should really be exploring different window managers, but of course if you come from a Windows background that's a foreign idea to you - which is perhaps why leading distros should make more effort to highlight the choice available. Personally I've settled on XFCE on Debian until or unless I can find something that's more like an incremental improvement on GNOME2.
However, what I don't understand is why the subject of the story just didn't leave McDonalds. Honestly, you're in a city full of excellent, and sometimes inexpensive, cuisine.
They eat frogs' legs, snails, foie gras, mange tout, and steak tartare. McDonalds was probably the best cuisine they had!
Didn't try very hard, did he? There may not be an e-mail address there, but there's a phone number, in Paris, that he can call and speak to a human being who would be very interested to find out the details of the alleged assault, and would almost certainly give him an address where he can send the photos.
Mais peut-etre qu'il ne parle pas le bon franÃais. ;-)
10 years is probably too short
Why? Justify that assertion. Is it not the case that the vast majority of profits for the vast majority of copyrighted works get made in the first 5 years after release, let alone the first 10? How is it a greater public good to help the odd outlier that is still going strong after 50 years make money, as opposed to letting many millions of people enjoy quality works for free once they've made a good profit (if they're ever going to)?
I know it's popular to sound all level-headed and point out the law, but many of us think copyright law desperately needs an overhaul. I, for one, would like to see anything released over 10 years ago go into the public domain. Then, much of the Megaupload activity would've been legal.
And how exactly is an investigative journalist supposed to get a transcript of the court hearing? Sleep with the judge?
Indeed. I don't get the article at all, what is there to improve on? The layout works, there are images when needed to be informative.
Which, to a "UX expert", are all red lights that a visual refresh is long overdue!
Did you stop using Office when it was at the 2003 version? I don't have many problems using Outlook 2010 on Windows 7 and finding stuff, and I'm horrible at filing and deleting, my mailbox is full of crap.
Problem is, they completely fucked up quoting in Outlook 2010. You used to be able to have multiple levels of quotes (multiple blue lines down the left), and break them up with inline responses. Now you can't because they switched to Word's stupid editor which generates hideous HTML or OOXML.
That's because Outlook generally *comes* with the rest of the Office suite. Those who want Outlook's functionality without the rest of the suite generally use something like Outlook that isn't Outlook.