I play a bit of WoW. I raid a little, playing a ranged damage class. Raid-support information is a humongous source of screen clutter. With full raid displays enabled, over 50% of my display is raid-related information graphics, not combat scene. If I have to engage a target off my visual centerline, it probably formed under the raid graphics and I have to repoint to look at and select it.
It would be massively nicer if the raid-support info-graphics could be well off to the side, off the battlefield view.
Ah well.
BTW, I'm surprised no one has proposed this: if 6 screens puts a big nasty bezel seam right across your field of view... use 9 screens. A 3x3 array puts dead-center of field of view dead-center in the central monitor. Win.
Pissed off the computer teacher by playing "startrek" for 3 hours on that terminal. Burned off most of a box of paper. But I did kill a lot of Klingons and saved the Federation many times, so it was worth it.
In principle, it was company time that he was authorized to waste, if necessary in his judgment. Especially if he had budgetary authority or timecard approval rights.
And, FWIW, yeah, for once the boss was right. External access to internal network or system assets should be equivalent to escorted access to a secure physical facility. Approved case-by-case, limited-time, and monitored.
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. And Enceladus. And maybe TITAN, we haven't decided on that yet. BUT THE OTHERS, YEAH, ALL YOURS. You know, on second thought, ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS ANYWHERE BEFORE CHECKING WITH US. KTHXBYE
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Apparently, slashdot feels like telling the omnipotent mysterious monolith what to do. Bad idea...
it's also faster. At least, it's faster in a well-designed transit system.
Spherical cow. It's all easy if you can postulate away any actual practical limitations. Things like existing residence and employment location patterns ("first, we make everyone live within 5 miles of where they work..."); stuff already in the way of your well-designed transit system ("how many dozens of blocks are you willing to demolish to set up your light rail system?"); and the simple societal preference for individual mobility.
The U.S. is a big, sprawling country, and the cities are big and sprawling too. That is the result of, and the reinforcement for, the big, sprawling, commute-centric mindset of suburban/exurban America. And 3-hour commutes, $4 per gallon gasoline, and 35,000 traffic fatalities a year haven't changed it yet. If you don't mind, I won't hold my breath.
referring to them as assholes or motherfuckers ostensibly expresses an opinion
I dunno, I suspect someone might have considered an unsubstantiated accusation of incestuous sexual congress with one's own mother as factually slanderous. And then we'd see the limits of the "we didn't mean it literally" defense.
A better car analogy: "I don't trust any hybrid because of that damn Prius braking problem. And the fact that Toyota denied there was any Prius braking problem for so long."
But let the anti-nuke whackjobs be the anti-nuke whackjobs. It keeps them out of more annoying fringe circles.
Apple today is much more significant as a consumer electronics vendor than an OS
or computer vendor.
And, right there, you brushed right over the point of TFA.
Mobile phones are not computers. They are consumer electronics. 254 distinct Linux distros are fine for the computer universe, where the expertise and dedication necessary to untangle and sensibly choose among the embarrassment of riches can be safely assumed.
But mutually incompatible cell phone "distros" with the same "distro name", in a consumer market which has no history of or tolerance for geekery, is a recipe for platform failure.
Here's a hint: if, for instance, you think the difference between BSD and Linux is vitally important, your judgment cannot be trusted in the mobile phone platform market, because you're fixated on the market-irrelevant innards. See also the ongoing angst over why Linux hasn't succeeded on the consumer desktop yet.
I say all these things who cares deeply about the market-irrelevant innards, but also someone who understands that these concerns are entirely secondary in any discussion of markets.
As far as you can trust Wikipedia, the idea of Lilith being Adam's first wife is essentially an early Medieval Jewish folk tale. Apparently, earlier consideration of Lilith was as the ancient Sumerian idea of a female demon lilitu. This is described as comparable to "modern" succubi.
"Sci-Fi" movies of today were taken right out of Science-Factions of Aliens and Predators that actually exist here and now. It realy pisses me off when all the mythology and fables of today are nothing more than disguises of real SHTF
I don't know if I'm entirely following you, but culturally we've been repeating mythotypes for centuries. The whole "making money off of recycled myths" really just boils down to "making money off of a predictable human activity". And that boils down to "making money".
True creativity is rare and tends to fail commercially because it's novel and threatening. That's just the way it is.
With further respect... property rights. As in, either you're living on the landfill, in which case the pipes and wires are entirely yours and completely on "your" property, or you live far enough away from the landfill that the smell, flies, activity, etc. don't bother you, and you own the intervening acreage undeveloped (which is potentially a lot of land), or you acquire rights-of-way from all your neighbors whose properties lie between you and the landfill, or you bootleg the pipes or wires over their land and tell them to screw off.
So, as usual, the slashbot community latches onto the trivial technical challenge while entirely ignoring the less tractable economic, legal, and governance issues.
Unless you propose to get your methane from a spherical cow...
If one could get a free source of fuel that did not damage the fuel cell, then that would be interesting.
With the minor downside that you'd have to live on a dump or a landfill. As little as I enjoy yardwork, I'm pretty sure I'd hate even more living on a trash pile with huge garbage trucks coming and going all the time.
Naaah, I'll just keep paying my 10 cents-per-kwh for electricity and call it good.
I was about to mock you by pointing out the O'Reilly Perl libary is camel-centric, but looking at http://oreilly.com/pub/topic/perl, I am amazed at the zoo of critters in the Perl book list.
What this tells me is that I need a much higher budget for books.
Niven is usually classified as a Hard SF author, but he does love investigating the social aspects of his future tech. In this case, an interesting piece of triva is that in the Known Space continuity, pranking someone by hitting them with a tasp is colloquially known as "making someone's day".
Also in the milieu is the very real prospect of stimulation addiction, even with the "hardwired version" of the tasp.
My favorite electronics components store has something like that. Or did a few years back, when I was in the Bay area on other business and stopped by one afternoon.
Their "storefront" was the front of their warehouse, a waiting-room looking area with a couple of registers and some assorted other folks behind a counter. The seating area, and the counter top, had current and recent copies of their paper catalog and big stacks of order forms.
Pick up an order form, page through the catalog, fill in your order, hand it to one of the nice folks behind the counter who goes back to the warehouse to pull your order.
A few minutes later, the nice person comes back with a basket full of your order. You have it rung up at the counter, pay, and leave with the goodies (in a plastic shopping bag, if I recall).
This is a place that almost certainly must have done most of its retail business electronically via web or email, even that long ago. So a brick-and-mortar retail nexus is entirely possible, as long as you're not a just-in-time no-inventory middleman kind of retailer.
Well, there may already a hole in that: IMAP. I don't EVER hit Gmail's HTTPS address. Thunderbird accesses the gmail box and does all searches internally.
Of course, if an IMAP MUA uses the IMAP SEARCH command to search mailboxes, then GOOG's IMAP face can treat that input like it would a web-based search form entry, so if that's the case then their search-optimizing input overlord status is secure.
But other than Google's own feature-promotion spam, I see no advertising.
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Who let the facehugger have the baby!?!?!
Oh, yeah, there was an article too. Yeah, yeah, we need ethics, blah, blah. OK? Am I on-topic yet?
But I mean OMG WTF? The baby! It has a facehugger! Rescue it already!
^^ This.
I play a bit of WoW. I raid a little, playing a ranged damage class. Raid-support information is a humongous source of screen clutter. With full raid displays enabled, over 50% of my display is raid-related information graphics, not combat scene. If I have to engage a target off my visual centerline, it probably formed under the raid graphics and I have to repoint to look at and select it.
It would be massively nicer if the raid-support info-graphics could be well off to the side, off the battlefield view.
Ah well.
BTW, I'm surprised no one has proposed this: if 6 screens puts a big nasty bezel seam right across your field of view... use 9 screens. A 3x3 array puts dead-center of field of view dead-center in the central monitor. Win.
where line-printer keyboards were king
Damn straight. The LA36 DECwriter rocked!
Pissed off the computer teacher by playing "startrek" for 3 hours on that terminal. Burned off most of a box of paper. But I did kill a lot of Klingons and saved the Federation many times, so it was worth it.
"Summertime, and the killin' is easy..."
What, no Gershwin fans out here?
Please look up the phrase "delegated authority".
In principle, it was company time that he was authorized to waste, if necessary in his judgment. Especially if he had budgetary authority or timecard approval rights.
And, FWIW, yeah, for once the boss was right. External access to internal network or system assets should be equivalent to escorted access to a secure physical facility. Approved case-by-case, limited-time, and monitored.
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. And Enceladus. And maybe TITAN, we haven't decided on that yet. BUT THE OTHERS, YEAH, ALL YOURS.
You know, on second thought, ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS ANYWHERE BEFORE CHECKING WITH US. KTHXBYE
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Apparently, slashdot feels like telling the omnipotent mysterious monolith what to do. Bad idea...
See also Raygun Gothic. Gibson called it "the future that never was."
At least it wasn't lupins.
However, if they are stuck in traffic jams day after day, they may find themselves much more likely to try the train, bus or carpool option
Hasn't happened yet.
it's also faster. At least, it's faster in a well-designed transit system.
Spherical cow. It's all easy if you can postulate away any actual practical limitations. Things like existing residence and employment location patterns ("first, we make everyone live within 5 miles of where they work..."); stuff already in the way of your well-designed transit system ("how many dozens of blocks are you willing to demolish to set up your light rail system?"); and the simple societal preference for individual mobility.
The U.S. is a big, sprawling country, and the cities are big and sprawling too. That is the result of, and the reinforcement for, the big, sprawling, commute-centric mindset of suburban/exurban America. And 3-hour commutes, $4 per gallon gasoline, and 35,000 traffic fatalities a year haven't changed it yet. If you don't mind, I won't hold my breath.
referring to them as assholes or motherfuckers ostensibly expresses an opinion
I dunno, I suspect someone might have considered an unsubstantiated accusation of incestuous sexual congress with one's own mother as factually slanderous. And then we'd see the limits of the "we didn't mean it literally" defense.
And, of course, when the system failure strikes, Cassandra will be blamed, not the underlying issues Cassandra warned of.
A better car analogy: "I don't trust any hybrid because of that damn Prius braking problem. And the fact that Toyota denied there was any Prius braking problem for so long."
But let the anti-nuke whackjobs be the anti-nuke whackjobs. It keeps them out of more annoying fringe circles.
They would be, if they were supposed to be a single platform.
Competition is good. Cutthroat competition is the norm. Cutthroat sibling competition is pathological.
Apple today is much more significant as a consumer electronics vendor than an OS or computer vendor.
And, right there, you brushed right over the point of TFA.
Mobile phones are not computers. They are consumer electronics. 254 distinct Linux distros are fine for the computer universe, where the expertise and dedication necessary to untangle and sensibly choose among the embarrassment of riches can be safely assumed.
But mutually incompatible cell phone "distros" with the same "distro name", in a consumer market which has no history of or tolerance for geekery, is a recipe for platform failure.
Here's a hint: if, for instance, you think the difference between BSD and Linux is vitally important, your judgment cannot be trusted in the mobile phone platform market, because you're fixated on the market-irrelevant innards. See also the ongoing angst over why Linux hasn't succeeded on the consumer desktop yet.
I say all these things who cares deeply about the market-irrelevant innards, but also someone who understands that these concerns are entirely secondary in any discussion of markets.
Technically, Einstein didn't draft the letter. Leó Szilárd wrote the letter and convinced Einstein to sign it, mostly for credibility purposes.
Wikipedia linky.
This is, according to Wikipedia, a latter phase of the High German Consonant Shift, sometime in the 9th-to-10th Century CE.
As far as you can trust Wikipedia, the idea of Lilith being Adam's first wife is essentially an early Medieval Jewish folk tale. Apparently, earlier consideration of Lilith was as the ancient Sumerian idea of a female demon lilitu. This is described as comparable to "modern" succubi.
"Sci-Fi" movies of today were taken right out of Science-Factions of Aliens and Predators that actually exist here and now. It realy pisses me off when all the mythology and fables of today are nothing more than disguises of real SHTF
I don't know if I'm entirely following you, but culturally we've been repeating mythotypes for centuries. The whole "making money off of recycled myths" really just boils down to "making money off of a predictable human activity". And that boils down to "making money".
True creativity is rare and tends to fail commercially because it's novel and threatening. That's just the way it is.
With further respect... property rights. As in, either you're living on the landfill, in which case the pipes and wires are entirely yours and completely on "your" property, or you live far enough away from the landfill that the smell, flies, activity, etc. don't bother you, and you own the intervening acreage undeveloped (which is potentially a lot of land), or you acquire rights-of-way from all your neighbors whose properties lie between you and the landfill, or you bootleg the pipes or wires over their land and tell them to screw off.
So, as usual, the slashbot community latches onto the trivial technical challenge while entirely ignoring the less tractable economic, legal, and governance issues.
Unless you propose to get your methane from a spherical cow...
If one could get a free source of fuel that did not damage the fuel cell, then that would be interesting.
With the minor downside that you'd have to live on a dump or a landfill. As little as I enjoy yardwork, I'm pretty sure I'd hate even more living on a trash pile with huge garbage trucks coming and going all the time.
Naaah, I'll just keep paying my 10 cents-per-kwh for electricity and call it good.
I was about to mock you by pointing out the O'Reilly Perl libary is camel-centric, but looking at http://oreilly.com/pub/topic/perl, I am amazed at the zoo of critters in the Perl book list.
What this tells me is that I need a much higher budget for books.
So... what you're saying is that you don't get the jokes? That's ok. Not everyone has what it takes. For the rest, there's always Heathcliff.
This
Niven is usually classified as a Hard SF author, but he does love investigating the social aspects of his future tech. In this case, an interesting piece of triva is that in the Known Space continuity, pranking someone by hitting them with a tasp is colloquially known as "making someone's day".
Also in the milieu is the very real prospect of stimulation addiction, even with the "hardwired version" of the tasp.
My favorite electronics components store has something like that. Or did a few years back, when I was in the Bay area on other business and stopped by one afternoon.
Their "storefront" was the front of their warehouse, a waiting-room looking area with a couple of registers and some assorted other folks behind a counter. The seating area, and the counter top, had current and recent copies of their paper catalog and big stacks of order forms.
Pick up an order form, page through the catalog, fill in your order, hand it to one of the nice folks behind the counter who goes back to the warehouse to pull your order.
A few minutes later, the nice person comes back with a basket full of your order. You have it rung up at the counter, pay, and leave with the goodies (in a plastic shopping bag, if I recall).
This is a place that almost certainly must have done most of its retail business electronically via web or email, even that long ago. So a brick-and-mortar retail nexus is entirely possible, as long as you're not a just-in-time no-inventory middleman kind of retailer.
Well, there may already a hole in that: IMAP. I don't EVER hit Gmail's HTTPS address. Thunderbird accesses the gmail box and does all searches internally.
Of course, if an IMAP MUA uses the IMAP SEARCH command to search mailboxes, then GOOG's IMAP face can treat that input like it would a web-based search form entry, so if that's the case then their search-optimizing input overlord status is secure.
But other than Google's own feature-promotion spam, I see no advertising.
You shouldn't complain about moderation until you understand it.
Your comment will be modded "offtopic".
So will this one.