Your eyes like to be able to focus on things at different distances now and then. By finding something to look at in the distance for a minute or so, you'll help balance out the time you spend staring at your monitor. I'll sometimes get eyestrain from highway driving too long, too, always looking in the distance... so I make sure to glance down at my dashboard now and then to let my eyes focus on something nearer.
I managed to find several personal landmarks without the aid of a map or address-- just zooming in and recognizing landmarks and layout. I found the town I grew up in (couldn't zoom in any closer), my high school, where I went to college, my current home (yes, I could pick out the particular roof), etc. The pictures are at least a couple of years old-- there's a playing field at my college on the picture that has been taken over by dorms for the past couple of years. And my house appears to have a pool in the backyard, which it hasn't had for several years.
If it is used to track page visit stats, having the URL to the gif posted on massive numbers of websites would totally skew their results. All these people looking at the 1x1 transparent gif and not at the powerbook page. (Myself included)
Regardless of whether it's a typo or not, they'd want to change it just so they could continue getting halfway-reliable stats.
I grew up on Macs, too. My mom and I took a HyperCard class together when I was in 8th grade. I never ended up using it much after that, but picked up HTML pretty quickly in high school. I didn't learn how to really program until I went to college.
The problem with pre-OS X Macs was that it was hard to get a command line. I sort of had a vague desire to learn how to program, but no idea how to start.
I've often wished for a message display to tell drivers why what they just did is horribly wrong. Most often for people who throw lit cigarettes out their window. I was particularly incensed to see someone do just that during fire season in a dry area on a rural road... I've been part of a fire crew that put out a brush fire caused by someone's tossed cigarette. Some people spare no thought for consequences.
Being able to dictate a tirade on the absolute stupidity of other drivers, and have it transmitted to them (whether they listen to it or not) would probably help prevent road rage. Get it all out of your system without causing bodily injury.
I would've settled for a nice scrolling display mounted on my car, so I could have it flash and display (in reverse, for cars I'm following): "DON'T THROW LIT CIGARETTES OUT OF YOUR WINDOW YOU STUPID IDIOT!"
... among other things.;)
BTW Dependant (noun) is a person (e.g. one who is financially supported by another), whereas dependent is the associated adjective.
That was my first thought! But dictionary.com (which is probably not the best resource, but it's easy) listed both definitions for both spellings. They're just variants of one another.
At work, I'm our team's spellchecker. My boss will often wander into my office to ask which spelling of a word to use (like affect/effect. Most recent was dependent/dependant, which I didn't know, and dictionary.com claimed there was no difference between them). When he emails me my progress report for me to sign off on, I correct the spelling before sending it back.
I think a big part of this kind of thing is a lack of attention to detail. I've always been a bit of a perfectionist, so I actively tried to learn the proper uses and spellings of words (I'm not so anal about grammar). I think most people don't care about details that much, so they don't learn it.
You can probably find other evidence of the lack of attention to detail in their lives-- I've often noticed a correlation in drawing ability. People who can't spell are more likely to struggle to produce realistic-looking drawings.
people do start living to 1000, I think our real duty would be to start hunting them.
...or export them. Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars trilogy addresses some of these issues.
Also, I think people would probably have many careers and several retirements. Work for 50 years, retire for 10 or 20 (til you got bored). Then you can do something else for another 50... At what point would your brain just get full?
I recall that way back when, if you just did Eject (or cmd-e), leaving the grayed-out disk icon, the computer would pretty much always ask you to re-insert the disk later. For a long time (probably almost 10 years), dragging to the trash was the only way I knew how to actually get rid of it. A math teacher in high school finally taught me that cmd-a (Put Away) was the best way to do it.
So, needless to say, I'm quite pleased with disk (well, CD) ejection on OS X. Eject, cmd-e, the eject button the keyboard, etc. all nicely eject the disk without any remnants. If you've got a network drive mounted, it will often hang for a while if you disconnect the network, though.
...further away from the terminals for security reasons.
This suddenly made me think that there would have to be some kind of safeguards against someone just putting a bomb in a pod and sending it off to its destination.
Sure, cameras in the pod might help, or the fact that they'd probably be seen putting it in, but what if it's put in at a quiet station, and the people watching the cameras aren't attentive?
Of course, this sort of thing could happen with almost any kind of transportation. But these days, to get anyone to deploy it, there'll have to be a plan.
Hopefully whatever plan they come up with doesn't make for airport-security-style delays getting in to the system. "Your wait time is less than a minute... once you get to the platform."
...but never once gave an opinion as to why or how to fix it.
Probably because he wants you to read his book. I've had it lying around for a few years, but haven't managed to finish it. From what I've read, he doesn't say, "This is a spec for a good interface," but more talks about the what should be taken into consideration when designing a good interface.
Those that steal it now...probably wouldn't have bought it anyways.?
I disagree. I think that most of those who steal it now will also buy it in November. Their trigger fingers were just too itchy to wait another 3+ weeks.
Several years ago, not long after I got my license, I was driving my dad's truck (1980 Ford something-or-other, I think), and the steering failed. I'd turn the wheel, and the truck wouldn't react for a few seconds (kind of scary at 40mph on a dirt road). It was the first time I'd driven it with the plow on it, so I thought maybe it was normal...
After several minutes of this, I finally stopped and told my dad (who was with me) that I really didn't like the way it handled, and he could drive the *$@& thing home. He opened the hood, and it turned out the steering wheel assembly was working loose from from the box (that somehow makes it turn the wheels, I dunno how it works-- only that it wasn't). This meant you had to turn the wheel farther before it would register anything, though it seemed to steer just as much as normal, making small corrections very difficult (since they didn't really register).
He drove it home really slowly, and tightened the bolts. I'm always suspicious of that truck now...
Japan's earthquakes and volcanoes are part of the Pacific plate's subduction zone.
California has earthquakes because of the pacific plate sliding along the north american plate (heading up toward Japan...).
The pacific northwest has volcanoes and earthquakes because it's the subduction zone for the plate of Juan de Fuca.
Hawaii, however, is in the middle of the pacific plate. Like Yellowstone, it's just a small place with some volcanic activity unrelated to plate tectonics (though the movement of the hotspot, creating the chain of islands, is probably related to plate tectonics).
I played Populous (may have been Populous II or something) on my Mac (an old Performa with MacOS 7.x). I bet the CD is still lying around at my parents' house somewhere.
Funny thing is, my sister and I always listened to Blues Traveller when we played Populous, so they always remind me of each other.
Then why is the first Harry Potter book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in the UK, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the US? Not because JK Rowling changed her mind-- it's because the US publisher thought American kids would be more likely to read it if it had the word "Sorcerer" in the title.
Authors often don't have a final say in the book title. And depending on how old Katie T. was when the book was published, she may have had even less say. Blame Penguin's marketing department.
My sister had trouble with insomnia in high school. To get to sleep, she would lie on the floor with a pillow and watch TV (often the Discovery Channel or some such) until she fell asleep, usually around midnight-1am. She'd wake up a bit around 3-4 am, get into bed, and sleep til morning.
This wouldn't work for me-- I have trouble falling asleep in front of the TV (it tends to wake me up). But for her, I guess it distracted her mind from other things enough to let her fall asleep. My equivalent would be reading a book (especially one that doesn't require a lot of thought).
If you're having trouble sleeping because your mind won't slow down, try doing something that will distract you a bit. And don't do it in bed-- one thing they tell insomniacs is to make bed a place for sleeping only.
Comcast just enabled OnDemand for Digital Cable subscribers in my area. It allows you to watch certain programs/shows anytime, with pausing, fast forwarding, etc. Shows from basic cable are free to watch, as are some other stuff, and if you get HBO/etc, you can watch their OnDemand stuff free too (like any of the Sopranos episodes from the current season). While there aren't too many shows on there yet, if it becomes popular enough, the programming will increase.
It's fast and appears to be high quality (I don't think it's HD, but I can't tell a speed or quality difference from regular cable). Plus, you don't have to walk to the video store, or wait for something to come in the mail. I like it so far.
Yes, and what if the owner of the account is a coffee shop with a wireless access point? The sharing could be done by some guy who stops by to sip some coffee and check his email.
If the account holder (and not the perpetrator) is held accountable for all uses of the account, could this not potentially shut down public wireless hot spots for fear of liability? I suppose they could just close off the standard ports for filesharing, to cover their asses. But it would set a disturbing precedent, and likely kill unsupervised/unrestricted public access.
There's Boeing surplus, too. You can get all sorts of interesting spare parts, in addition to things like office chairs and printer paper.
EMP is supposed to be fun, too. I've never been, but I've heard good things.
The rest of the state:
Washington state is very ecologically diverse. You've got rainforest on the Olympic Peninsula, more temperate climate in the Seattle area, the mountains (which are beautiful), and then the central and eastern parts of the state are desert. The San Juan islands are an excellent destination, especially if you wanted to do some sea kayaking.
There are some good wineries in the south central part of the state, and one of the biggest wind farms down by Walla Walla.
Presicely. I think recently I have begun to feel the same way-- not just about previous moon landings, but about space programs in general. It disappoints me that NASA and the US aren't doing more with their space program, but when I hear news like this, I'm just happy because someone's doing it. Mankind needs to get out more, no matter what nation they happened to be born in.
I do still harbor a few scraps of nationalism that make me wish it were my country doing the cool stuff. Of course, maybe a little competition is good for us. A nice little kick in the butt to get us moving.
I bet they'll try to market it to parents for keeping an eye on their kids, sort of like those day care centers with webcams.
Hmm, I can think of at least one good use for it. Set it up pointing at your monitor, start compiling, go out for a few beers. Then call your camera every half hour or so to see if your machine's done compiling yet.
In the article linked in the original post, Rosalind Franklin is mentioned under the acknowledgements at the bottom.
We have also been stimulated by a knowledge of the general nature of the unpublished experimental results and ideas of Dr. M. H. F. Wilkins, Dr. R. E. Franklin and their co-workers at King's College, London.
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Your eyes like to be able to focus on things at different distances now and then. By finding something to look at in the distance for a minute or so, you'll help balance out the time you spend staring at your monitor. I'll sometimes get eyestrain from highway driving too long, too, always looking in the distance... so I make sure to glance down at my dashboard now and then to let my eyes focus on something nearer.
I have coworkers who go to a cafe with wireless access and play WoW during lunch. No card game needed!
It's fun. And a very good procrastination tool.
Regardless of whether it's a typo or not, they'd want to change it just so they could continue getting halfway-reliable stats.
The problem with pre-OS X Macs was that it was hard to get a command line. I sort of had a vague desire to learn how to program, but no idea how to start.
Being able to dictate a tirade on the absolute stupidity of other drivers, and have it transmitted to them (whether they listen to it or not) would probably help prevent road rage. Get it all out of your system without causing bodily injury.
I would've settled for a nice scrolling display mounted on my car, so I could have it flash and display (in reverse, for cars I'm following): "DON'T THROW LIT CIGARETTES OUT OF YOUR WINDOW YOU STUPID IDIOT!" ;)
... among other things.
That was my first thought! But dictionary.com (which is probably not the best resource, but it's easy) listed both definitions for both spellings. They're just variants of one another.
I think a big part of this kind of thing is a lack of attention to detail. I've always been a bit of a perfectionist, so I actively tried to learn the proper uses and spellings of words (I'm not so anal about grammar). I think most people don't care about details that much, so they don't learn it.
You can probably find other evidence of the lack of attention to detail in their lives-- I've often noticed a correlation in drawing ability. People who can't spell are more likely to struggle to produce realistic-looking drawings.
...or export them. Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars trilogy addresses some of these issues.
Also, I think people would probably have many careers and several retirements. Work for 50 years, retire for 10 or 20 (til you got bored). Then you can do something else for another 50... At what point would your brain just get full?
So, needless to say, I'm quite pleased with disk (well, CD) ejection on OS X. Eject, cmd-e, the eject button the keyboard, etc. all nicely eject the disk without any remnants. If you've got a network drive mounted, it will often hang for a while if you disconnect the network, though.
This suddenly made me think that there would have to be some kind of safeguards against someone just putting a bomb in a pod and sending it off to its destination.
Sure, cameras in the pod might help, or the fact that they'd probably be seen putting it in, but what if it's put in at a quiet station, and the people watching the cameras aren't attentive?
Of course, this sort of thing could happen with almost any kind of transportation. But these days, to get anyone to deploy it, there'll have to be a plan.
Hopefully whatever plan they come up with doesn't make for airport-security-style delays getting in to the system. "Your wait time is less than a minute... once you get to the platform."
Probably because he wants you to read his book.
I've had it lying around for a few years, but haven't managed to finish it. From what I've read, he doesn't say, "This is a spec for a good interface," but more talks about the what should be taken into consideration when designing a good interface.
I disagree. I think that most of those who steal it now will also buy it in November. Their trigger fingers were just too itchy to wait another 3+ weeks.
After several minutes of this, I finally stopped and told my dad (who was with me) that I really didn't like the way it handled, and he could drive the *$@& thing home. He opened the hood, and it turned out the steering wheel assembly was working loose from from the box (that somehow makes it turn the wheels, I dunno how it works-- only that it wasn't). This meant you had to turn the wheel farther before it would register anything, though it seemed to steer just as much as normal, making small corrections very difficult (since they didn't really register).
He drove it home really slowly, and tightened the bolts. I'm always suspicious of that truck now...
Japan's earthquakes and volcanoes are part of the Pacific plate's subduction zone.
California has earthquakes because of the pacific plate sliding along the north american plate (heading up toward Japan...).
The pacific northwest has volcanoes and earthquakes because it's the subduction zone for the plate of Juan de Fuca.
Hawaii, however, is in the middle of the pacific plate. Like Yellowstone, it's just a small place with some volcanic activity unrelated to plate tectonics (though the movement of the hotspot, creating the chain of islands, is probably related to plate tectonics).
Hurrah for intro Geology...
Funny thing is, my sister and I always listened to Blues Traveller when we played Populous, so they always remind me of each other.
Authors often don't have a final say in the book title. And depending on how old Katie T. was when the book was published, she may have had even less say. Blame Penguin's marketing department.
This wouldn't work for me-- I have trouble falling asleep in front of the TV (it tends to wake me up). But for her, I guess it distracted her mind from other things enough to let her fall asleep. My equivalent would be reading a book (especially one that doesn't require a lot of thought).
If you're having trouble sleeping because your mind won't slow down, try doing something that will distract you a bit. And don't do it in bed-- one thing they tell insomniacs is to make bed a place for sleeping only.
It's fast and appears to be high quality (I don't think it's HD, but I can't tell a speed or quality difference from regular cable). Plus, you don't have to walk to the video store, or wait for something to come in the mail. I like it so far.
If the account holder (and not the perpetrator) is held accountable for all uses of the account, could this not potentially shut down public wireless hot spots for fear of liability? I suppose they could just close off the standard ports for filesharing, to cover their asses. But it would set a disturbing precedent, and likely kill unsupervised/unrestricted public access.
EMP is supposed to be fun, too. I've never been, but I've heard good things.
The rest of the state:
Washington state is very ecologically diverse. You've got rainforest on the Olympic Peninsula, more temperate climate in the Seattle area, the mountains (which are beautiful), and then the central and eastern parts of the state are desert. The San Juan islands are an excellent destination, especially if you wanted to do some sea kayaking.
There are some good wineries in the south central part of the state, and one of the biggest wind farms down by Walla Walla.
I do still harbor a few scraps of nationalism that make me wish it were my country doing the cool stuff. Of course, maybe a little competition is good for us. A nice little kick in the butt to get us moving.
Hmm, I can think of at least one good use for it. Set it up pointing at your monitor, start compiling, go out for a few beers. Then call your camera every half hour or so to see if your machine's done compiling yet.
Oooh, that must be why my VCR clock always seems to creep ahead! It doesn't account for leap seconds!