Because people were telling me how the ribbon is worth the effort in re-learning the GUI, because all of the built-up unintuitive cruft is gone.
And that's partly true... I mean, in Excel you don't go to the "Insert" menu to edit a named cell anymore, which has always puzzled me. And the old "Copy as Picture" function had to be activated by holding down the shift key, which was weird... but at least you never had to use it when pasting back into another Office application. Now you need it unless you like gridlines to be printed - and they hid it away 3 levels deep in the wrong menu? Very, very annoying... and yes, it is a surprise:)
But they won't surprise me again! I'll expect crap from now on, I promise!:)
when you paste you can use the paste options to select paste as picture
Ahhhh, but if you are cutting and pasting from Excel, you will get gridlines... If you use the Paste->As Picture->Copy method, you can choose "As Printed" - no gridlines!
In Excel 2003, the no-gridlines behavior was standard when you did "Paste Special-> As Picture". But progress...
in the USSR you had travel restrictions that where anachronistic (military cities etc) but other than that you where free to travel
I presume you mean "free to travel" WITHIN the borders of the USSR? Even then, I was under the impression that it could be difficult to leave your republic - say travel from Georgia to somewhere in Russia proper.
If I'd made an offhand guess I would have probably estimated $0.15 in bandwidth or maybe $0.60 in postage
Your number is probably better. The streamed content is nowhere near the size of the data on a DVD. If they were streaming the entire DVD it would cost much more. To say nothing of BluRay!:)
It's probably such a poorly supported feature because the Excel team was like, "why would anybody *do* this?"
Because the chuckleheads at MS decided that the picture should be "As Seen On Screen" instead of "As Seen When Printed", so the gridlines all show up when you paste. Note that in 2003 and prior it pasted "As Seen When Printed" unless you explicitly chose "As Seen On Screen".
The alternative is to hunt down the "Show Gridlines" option, turn it off, cut, paste, then turn the "Show Gridlines" option back on, which is so tedious that I'd probably write a macro:)
Ohhhhh... that is effing sweet! Why isn't the product help like that? Just sent it out to my co-workers. Doesn't address the messed-up Paste-copy situation, but gets 99% of everything else!
Even when I was a kid and everyone was chiding the Ruskies with the "Papers please" and "In Russia you can't travel around or say whatever you want without government permission" I was stuck with the hypocrisy.
Good, so you grasped that the world is a complicated place at a very young age.
But I'd point out that in the USSR you couldn't travel ANYWHERE, often including within the borders of the USSR. In the US, you were forbidden from visiting a single country out of hundreds. The difference in degree here is massive. I share your distaste for this restriction, but I also recognize that it is an aberration.
Try to export your software (or any other goods) to a country the U.S. doesn't like at the moment (i.e. countries who won't play ball) and see who comes knocking on your door.
I'm happy to give my country the power to apply sanctions. It gives diplomatic pressure that, with luck, can avoid war. Wouldn't it be nice if Iranian sanctions worked? Isn't that better than bombing them?
Maybe I would see it differently if the U.S. were actually at *WAR* with Iran.
I don't know when the last time a declaration of war occurred - Wikipedia says 1942. In any case, they are a historical artifact. If congress authorizes a "declaration of war", or if they authorize a "sanction"... really, what is the difference? Would you be happier if congress entitled the sanctions under some limited war declaration?
Certainly a user of Microsoft Office didn't have to change their mannerisms when they switched from Office 2003 to Office 2007's "ribbon".
Heh, hit a nerve there. My company is switching from 2003 to 2010 and we all sort of sit around Googling all day to unwind the ribbon. It's not that the ribbon is so bad, but the built-in help is horrendous. How hard would it have been to have a help section geared towards showing you how the old way translates into the new way? Maybe something as simple as a mock-up of the old interface, where when you select something it shows you how to do it the new way?
Or favorite Ribbon fuck-up so far: to copy-as-picture in Excel, you select the sub-menu on the PASTE button, then select "As Picture", and then "Copy". Yes, that's right... in their fancy new interface they make you Copy by clicking on Paste! I would PAY to talk to an engineer that had to sit through the conclusion of that meeting:)
I'm interested in seeing who wins the bet, but not sure who that will be.
I don't find the outcome to be that interesting. First, the amount of change bet on is only 0.1-0.2 degrees C. This appears to be within the margin of error of the models - so even if they are right, there would be a pretty good chance of them losing. Second, the models obviously can't account for things like future volcanic activity - so a mere eruption would decide the winner. This isn't science, it's a true "bet".
if we can't even define the *nature* of the problem, then why are we talking about plans of action?
I think the story of global-cooling to global-warming is a good one for science. You did not have anything even close to consensus agreement on global cooling in the 70s... I mean, the models were primitive and other people in the field just weren't willing to jump on board. But the models steadily improved through the 80s and 90s, until you had a situation where no sane person who was in the field could deny that the amounts of CO2 pumped into the atmosphere by man would cause at least SOME warming.
I find it very frustrating that so much of climatology is based on data that gets continually reworked and argued about.
I don't think I'd trust a "science" where everything was neat and orderly. The reworking and arguing is what science is all about. After all, a theory isn't scientific if it can't be disproved:)
It is very damning to me that none of the anti-anthropomorphic guys has built a model. I'm glad that they are around - don't get me wrong... someone needs to keep everyone honest. But it's pretty clear who is actually participating in the science and who is just on the sidelines shouting.
That's not the only relevant specialty - every critic I've seen or read has NOT built a climate model, nor been part of a team that built a model. You don't practice science by shouting from the sideline. The only way to test whether your critiques are valid is to model your ideas and test them.
Rather than making silly bets that can be influenced by something as random as a volcanic eruption, why doesn't he build a competing model and offer a reward for anyone that bests his accuracy?
The modeled temperatures shown in your link don't track the observations very closely.
???
It looks like we are operating on a different definition of "closely". It looks like the moving averages would diverge by no more than 0.2 degree over a period of 130+ years.
No analogy is perfect - just that you have to go through life deferring to experts... the CORRECT experts.
but he has a track record of accurately describing temperature in the future.
Where the "future" is defined as the very short-term. I would dismiss any climatologist who tries to contradict a reputable meteorologist when it comes to next week's forecast, just as I am dismissing the musings of a meteorologist who has never himself built a climate model.
Would you ask a physicist to design an overpass?
Certainly not if there were a civil engineer available!
Look, I'm all for being skeptical - I was once called "the most cynical person" that someone had ever met... but when everyone in a field agrees on something, it is USUALLY the right direction. Sure, you might be able to reach back and find counter-examples - and hell, climatology may yet be one of those examples... but it isn't going to be some meteorologist who cracks the case wide open with a silly bet.
I don't ask my cardiologist to change the oil in my car, no matter how smart he is. Similarly, the opinions of an opinionated physicist on climate change don't hold as much weight as the opinions of someone who is immersed in the field of climate science.
Ask yourself: why are there no models which show anything but global warming. If your answer is "conspiracy", then we're probably done here.
Only clueless moron would buy ANYTHING from itunes.
Meh... the DRM-free music is not bad and quite quick, especially when not in front of your computer. The $0.99 games for my kid won't kill me, either. Really it is no different than buying a game for any other platform... And renting a movie for $0.99 is no different than checking one out on a RedBox, except that you don't have to move your large ass over to the grocery store.
Why one would PURCHASE a movie on iTunes, I cannot say.
The "solution" that I've settled on at the moment is to use a combination of systems. I have a dual-boot Windows/Linux homebuilt for the wifey and for that occasional program/file that you simply must run on Windows. I have an Apple laptop and desktop - the desktop mostly used as a server. I'm in the process of setting up a freebsd (well, FreeNAS) file server to replace the Apple desktop, which is now about 6 years old.
I'll probably wire SOMETHING up to the TV again, but it obviously won't be the FreeNAS box:)
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Why does this surprise you?
Because people were telling me how the ribbon is worth the effort in re-learning the GUI, because all of the built-up unintuitive cruft is gone.
And that's partly true... I mean, in Excel you don't go to the "Insert" menu to edit a named cell anymore, which has always puzzled me. And the old "Copy as Picture" function had to be activated by holding down the shift key, which was weird... but at least you never had to use it when pasting back into another Office application. Now you need it unless you like gridlines to be printed - and they hid it away 3 levels deep in the wrong menu? Very, very annoying... and yes, it is a surprise :)
But they won't surprise me again! I'll expect crap from now on, I promise! :)
Next, they will be blaming global warming on Wikileaks.
Well, they ARE wasting a lot of energy with all of these spy servers they leave on around the clock in parliament buildings.
You select Copy -> Copy As Picture
LOL! Where is that?
when you paste you can use the paste options to select paste as picture
Ahhhh, but if you are cutting and pasting from Excel, you will get gridlines... If you use the Paste->As Picture->Copy method, you can choose "As Printed" - no gridlines!
In Excel 2003, the no-gridlines behavior was standard when you did "Paste Special-> As Picture". But progress...
in the USSR you had travel restrictions that where anachronistic (military cities etc) but other than that you where free to travel
I presume you mean "free to travel" WITHIN the borders of the USSR? Even then, I was under the impression that it could be difficult to leave your republic - say travel from Georgia to somewhere in Russia proper.
Thank you so much for the link - another poster pointed out the Flash-based ones as well.
Why these weren't integrated with the built-in help boggles the mind...
I imagine an HD stream is closer to DVD size than your "nowhere near" would seem to suggest.
The analogue to an HD stream is BluRay, which holds up to 50GB (and at least 25GB).
If I'd made an offhand guess I would have probably estimated $0.15 in bandwidth or maybe $0.60 in postage
Your number is probably better. The streamed content is nowhere near the size of the data on a DVD. If they were streaming the entire DVD it would cost much more. To say nothing of BluRay! :)
It's probably such a poorly supported feature because the Excel team was like, "why would anybody *do* this?"
Because the chuckleheads at MS decided that the picture should be "As Seen On Screen" instead of "As Seen When Printed", so the gridlines all show up when you paste. Note that in 2003 and prior it pasted "As Seen When Printed" unless you explicitly chose "As Seen On Screen".
The alternative is to hunt down the "Show Gridlines" option, turn it off, cut, paste, then turn the "Show Gridlines" option back on, which is so tedious that I'd probably write a macro :)
Ohhhhh... that is effing sweet! Why isn't the product help like that? Just sent it out to my co-workers. Doesn't address the messed-up Paste-copy situation, but gets 99% of everything else!
Even when I was a kid and everyone was chiding the Ruskies with the "Papers please" and "In Russia you can't travel around or say whatever you want without government permission" I was stuck with the hypocrisy.
Good, so you grasped that the world is a complicated place at a very young age.
But I'd point out that in the USSR you couldn't travel ANYWHERE, often including within the borders of the USSR. In the US, you were forbidden from visiting a single country out of hundreds. The difference in degree here is massive. I share your distaste for this restriction, but I also recognize that it is an aberration.
Try to export your software (or any other goods) to a country the U.S. doesn't like at the moment (i.e. countries who won't play ball) and see who comes knocking on your door.
I'm happy to give my country the power to apply sanctions. It gives diplomatic pressure that, with luck, can avoid war. Wouldn't it be nice if Iranian sanctions worked? Isn't that better than bombing them?
Maybe I would see it differently if the U.S. were actually at *WAR* with Iran.
I don't know when the last time a declaration of war occurred - Wikipedia says 1942. In any case, they are a historical artifact. If congress authorizes a "declaration of war", or if they authorize a "sanction"... really, what is the difference? Would you be happier if congress entitled the sanctions under some limited war declaration?
Certainly a user of Microsoft Office didn't have to change their mannerisms when they switched from Office 2003 to Office 2007's "ribbon".
Heh, hit a nerve there. My company is switching from 2003 to 2010 and we all sort of sit around Googling all day to unwind the ribbon. It's not that the ribbon is so bad, but the built-in help is horrendous. How hard would it have been to have a help section geared towards showing you how the old way translates into the new way? Maybe something as simple as a mock-up of the old interface, where when you select something it shows you how to do it the new way?
Or favorite Ribbon fuck-up so far: to copy-as-picture in Excel, you select the sub-menu on the PASTE button, then select "As Picture", and then "Copy". Yes, that's right... in their fancy new interface they make you Copy by clicking on Paste! I would PAY to talk to an engineer that had to sit through the conclusion of that meeting :)
I'm interested in seeing who wins the bet, but not sure who that will be.
I don't find the outcome to be that interesting. First, the amount of change bet on is only 0.1-0.2 degrees C. This appears to be within the margin of error of the models - so even if they are right, there would be a pretty good chance of them losing. Second, the models obviously can't account for things like future volcanic activity - so a mere eruption would decide the winner. This isn't science, it's a true "bet".
if we can't even define the *nature* of the problem, then why are we talking about plans of action?
I think the story of global-cooling to global-warming is a good one for science. You did not have anything even close to consensus agreement on global cooling in the 70s... I mean, the models were primitive and other people in the field just weren't willing to jump on board. But the models steadily improved through the 80s and 90s, until you had a situation where no sane person who was in the field could deny that the amounts of CO2 pumped into the atmosphere by man would cause at least SOME warming.
I find it very frustrating that so much of climatology is based on data that gets continually reworked and argued about.
I don't think I'd trust a "science" where everything was neat and orderly. The reworking and arguing is what science is all about. After all, a theory isn't scientific if it can't be disproved :)
It is very damning to me that none of the anti-anthropomorphic guys has built a model. I'm glad that they are around - don't get me wrong... someone needs to keep everyone honest. But it's pretty clear who is actually participating in the science and who is just on the sidelines shouting.
Our ancestors certainly thought so - I'm pretty sure they ate them all.
The relevant specialty here is statistics.
That's not the only relevant specialty - every critic I've seen or read has NOT built a climate model, nor been part of a team that built a model. You don't practice science by shouting from the sideline. The only way to test whether your critiques are valid is to model your ideas and test them.
Rather than making silly bets that can be influenced by something as random as a volcanic eruption, why doesn't he build a competing model and offer a reward for anyone that bests his accuracy?
The modeled temperatures shown in your link don't track the observations very closely.
???
It looks like we are operating on a different definition of "closely". It looks like the moving averages would diverge by no more than 0.2 degree over a period of 130+ years.
No analogy is perfect - just that you have to go through life deferring to experts... the CORRECT experts.
but he has a track record of accurately describing temperature in the future.
Where the "future" is defined as the very short-term. I would dismiss any climatologist who tries to contradict a reputable meteorologist when it comes to next week's forecast, just as I am dismissing the musings of a meteorologist who has never himself built a climate model.
Would you ask a physicist to design an overpass?
Certainly not if there were a civil engineer available!
Look, I'm all for being skeptical - I was once called "the most cynical person" that someone had ever met... but when everyone in a field agrees on something, it is USUALLY the right direction. Sure, you might be able to reach back and find counter-examples - and hell, climatology may yet be one of those examples... but it isn't going to be some meteorologist who cracks the case wide open with a silly bet.
Not one of the models can predict the past
Where did you get this information from? I didn't have to look very hard to find this model from 10 years ago!
Whatever source you have for your information is very suspect. No model would be taken seriously if it couldn't cope with past data.
No legitimate scientist
I don't ask my cardiologist to change the oil in my car, no matter how smart he is. Similarly, the opinions of an opinionated physicist on climate change don't hold as much weight as the opinions of someone who is immersed in the field of climate science.
Ask yourself: why are there no models which show anything but global warming. If your answer is "conspiracy", then we're probably done here.
I think this program is going to need more than Facebook...
They should partner with Slashdot - over 90% of abducted children end up in the basement of a someone who is socially awkward.
What would be the percentage of "Facebook penetration" amongst the /. users ?
If it's penetration you're after, Craigslist is far superior.
Only clueless moron would buy ANYTHING from itunes.
Meh... the DRM-free music is not bad and quite quick, especially when not in front of your computer. The $0.99 games for my kid won't kill me, either. Really it is no different than buying a game for any other platform... And renting a movie for $0.99 is no different than checking one out on a RedBox, except that you don't have to move your large ass over to the grocery store.
Why one would PURCHASE a movie on iTunes, I cannot say.
...because Apple doesn't make personal computers?
Blame Apple marketing... "I'm a PC"
Why the needless puff-word "excessive"? "Too much packet buffering" is good enough for USA Today. :)
The "solution" that I've settled on at the moment is to use a combination of systems. I have a dual-boot Windows/Linux homebuilt for the wifey and for that occasional program/file that you simply must run on Windows. I have an Apple laptop and desktop - the desktop mostly used as a server. I'm in the process of setting up a freebsd (well, FreeNAS) file server to replace the Apple desktop, which is now about 6 years old.
I'll probably wire SOMETHING up to the TV again, but it obviously won't be the FreeNAS box :)
I didn't mean to slight Linux - it is of course a choice, and it is even more complex and configurable than Windows.