I now have a rule at my home that when someone comes over for dinner or to watch a movie, everyone's phone goes gets left in their car or put in the drawer by the door until the evening is over. Nothing is more rude than someone who must reply or smiley or upvote something as mundane as someone's pic of new socks on facebook. They might as well just pull pull out a book and start reading. Interestingly, most people so far have been OK with this,
That's rich! OP means they love the idea of UBI as long as they don't have to pay for it. Google, Apple, Intel, Oracle, and hundreds of other tech companies set up headquarters in low-tax countries and divert billions of dollars there every year instead of paying the higher US tax rates which would benefit the US. I doubt they'll be so accommodating and willing to fit the bill to pay billions annually towards the 1M or more Californians that would gladly trade work for $15K for do nothing for $15K.
I agree, 10.6, the last really good OSX UI, was beautiful and each bit of functionality was visible and stood out from the background and other buttons. Buttons stood out, icons stood out, everything was beveled. Then came Lion and everything went to grey on grey on grey shit.
Or IOS 6. I have a 3GS that I use for playing tunes in the home gym occasionally and the UI is so scrumptiously beautiful functional. Everything is beveled and high-contrast so everything stands out. Black buttons with white text. White background with black text. None of this button substituted with a text link surrounded by a barely visible grey background that 1 shade darker than the background.
So what are YOU doing to negate the affects of supposed man-made climate change?
Have you given up your modern super-consumer-consumption-of-everyting-plastic 2018 lifestyle to live a more sustainable life like people did in the 1950s or earlier? Do you adamantly refuse to buy anything made of or enclosed in plastic? Do you refuse to ride in gasoline-engine cars and walk or ride a bike EVERYWHERE? Refuse to wear clothing from man-made fibers derived from oil and only wear clothing made of natural fibers like hemp, cotton, or jute? You gonna wear burlap shoes with leather soles instead of soft cushioned comfortable oil-derived athletic shoes when you play sports? Do you only eat local foods and refuse eat produce imported from thousands of mile away because ? Unless you live in a warm climate then say goodbye to bananas and fresh vegetables in the winter months except for local grown that can be stored for months like parsnip, potatoes, and carrots. How about never flying anywhere on a fuel guzzling jet anywhere for the rest of your life? I suspect the answer to all of these questions would be NO!
That's the problem with the majority of climate change proponents. They are all talk and no action. They loudly scream and yell how climate change affects must be mitigated, but refuse to do anything about it because don't want to give up their cushy modern lifestyle. At least the adamant deniers aren't being hypocrites.
I just got back from a week in Miami. 30 years ago the "climatologists" were predicting the Keys and a third of continental Florida would be underwater by now. Well gosh, to my surprise it hasn't happened yet. In fact almost nothing that has been predicted has happened. The visible negative effects of climate change is a moving target like sustainable fusion power-it's always 20-50 years away.
This condescending-UI-design shxt that is forced upon us has got to stop.
For 25 years we've had a ubiquitous File-Edit-View-...-Help menu based UI that worked really well, then the artsy-fartsy graphic design people started getting into UI design and create things around fashion trends instead of what works well. So nowadays we now have ended up with desktop applications that hide all options under a single hamburger menu even when run on 4k monitors, corporate websites with generic full screen looping autoplay videos of some perfect-looking people walking around their office smiling and looking way to happy, stores that display search results that show only 4 items per screen because someone thought that everyone wants to see giant thumbnails of each product instead of a list of 20 items they can quickly skim through, light grey-text on a darker grey-background, and Start menus that replaced fly-out menus with big square blocks.
Oh and stop designing searches that OR words by default instead of ANDing words. I would rather see e-commerce websites that return 11 items specific to all my search terms instead of returning 800 items that have nothing to do with what I am looking for.
People need to stop this change-the-UI for sake of change nonsense and just get back to the basics of usability and let users customize the UI they way they want and stop forcing people to use their crappy UI-designs.
Oh and linux UI-designers, stop copying and bringing over the worst annoying features of OSX and Windows. Oh how I long for the return to the end-to-end customizability of KDE3 and Konqueror.
Probably not, because when a man is recognized for his achievement we all know, without even saying, that the man accomplished something standing on the shoulders of others that came before him. Whereas when a woman is recognized for her achievement, every story invariably has a huge feminist, sexist,& misandrist SJW agenda and is spun into a story which portrays her as a brave courageous one-woman-army heroine who struggled, battled, and clashed everyday against male-created roadblocks that were erected everywhere she turned. The brave courageous woman never gave up and soldiered on and used her superior feminine ingenuity and intellect to overcome, beat, overthrow, and succeed against the misogynistic hierarchy created by all men who tried to destroy her work and accomplishments in her crusade against male domination.
So ya, nowadays every time there is a story about some woman's historical accomplishment I always take it with a grain of critical salt.
Nearly 100% of our food and drink comes in plastic containers, or metal containers with an internal plastic coating, or wrapped in plastic. Even fruit & vegetables all have those little annoying plastic code stickers.
Then everything we don't eat but use on a daily basis is made of plastic or comes in plastic containers-keyboards, mouse, pens, pencils, phone/tablet protectors, computer accessories, power tools, yoga pants, stretchy athletic clothing, shoes, socks, gloves, toothbrush, brushes, dental floss, body wash, shampoo, to name just a few.
On top of that everything we buy is comes in plastic shrink molding or wrapped in layers of plastic.
Is it really surprising that some of this stuff wears off and gets into our bodies?
Did some project manager at Apple fire up their 25-year old 486 running Windows 3.1, play with theme settings, and think "How can we market this today"?
It's not just about advertising, but this story describes an issue that is a subset of a much larger and growing issue: generally lousy search engines on retail sites that return either not enough or way too many results. It's not just amazon, but many of the big retailers have searches that if they do return items results specific to my search, and pad my results with dozens or hundreds results from departments and categories that have no relation to my search terms.
One one site I search for WASHERS and I did get washers in the results, plus WASHing machines, items related to WASHing clothes, babies, pets, or cars, and best of all, items for fans of the WASHington Capitals hockey team. Pretty much everything that has WASH as it's root word. What the hell?
Another large retail site I searched for drip pan and the results contain mostly anything to fix leaks from DRIPping roofs, faucets, eaves-troughs, plumbing, plus a wide assortment of fryPANs, a few lovely PANties, and drip plans were waaay down in the results.
Too many sites today are designed around business decisions with less regard to technical or usability decisions.
Offsets just move the pollution of manufacturing to somewhere else to another city, state, country, or another hemisphere. I think we've all seen how polluted areas of China are because everything we buy nowadays is made there. Clean water & air in US is great for us, but that's wont solve any global pollution issues as it just moves the problem somewhere else.
Tesla batteries weigh over 1000lb and all it does is roll along hard asphalt. I imagine tractor batteries will weigh 2-3x that if they expect it to run more than an hour doing heavy fieldwork. I can't imaging swapping out batteries packs weighing 2000lbs being very practical in time or money for farmers in their fields.
There are reasons why we don't put human feces, raw or treated, on the vegetable crops we eat. Look up something called Typhoid fever, for just one example.
Conversations with smart speaker owners usually go something like this:
Friend: "I just bought an Amazon Echo/Google/Apple/whoever smart speaker. It is amazing what it can do." Me: "What can it do now that you could not do before?" Friend:"Well it can control my Hue lights, make phone calls, and play music." Me:"Can't you do that with your phone already?" Friend:"Yes, but now I can use my smart speaker!" Me:"So tap-tap-tap-tap on your phone was too much work?" Friend:"No, but this is newer so it's cooler and more modern!" Me:"You do know your voice is recorded and sent back to their servers, stored, and is accessible to them and to god-only-knows-whoever their business partners are, right?" Friend:"They are a hi-tech company and they say they wouldn't do anything to violate my privacy with that, so there!" Me:"So then, would it be ok if I install a microphone in your home that records whatever you say and have the recordings sent back to me? I will only store them, promise never to listen to them, and never use them for any other purpose without your consent. You can trust me!" Friend:"NO NO NO! I will not let you do that-it would violate my privacy." Me:"Sigh!"
It was stupendously better for all of your reasons and more. There was almost no noise. Generally almost everything nowadays is just junk, fluff, filler, & clickbait.
Take recipes for instance. Even five years ago recipes were exactly that: recipes. A typical list of the ingredients with concise but clear directions. Nowadays looking up a recipe today invariably involves wading through screen after screen of some three-thousand word family history write-up about how the recipe is the author's grandmother's recipe and how everyone raved about it during holidays and neighbors came over to delight in her dish, and often the recipe is not even shown on the page-you have to play "find the 'Click here for recipe' link". Jezus christ!
You are incorrectly assuming that 'clearing it's orbit' is to be interpreted literally. It's not!
'Clearing its orbit ' doesn't mean an planet's orbit is completely devoid of any object, whether it's an asteroid hundreds of miles across. or a grain of sand. An object that is gravitational dominant in its orbit, has no other objects of comparable size in it's orbit and is not under the gravitational influence of any other objects with the exception of it's satellites has 'cleared it's orbit' and along with other criteria is classified as a planet.
Every day Earth, and every other large object in our solar system, is bombarded with thousands of meteors, most smaller than the grain of sand. Applying a literal definition of 'clearing it's orbit' would mean Earth is not a planet since these micro-meteors remain in its' orbit.
Pluto was mistakenly classified as a planet in the first place as I believe, and this comes from not always perfect memory, astronomers were looking for Planet X and Pluto just happened to be where PX was predicted, and they originally thought Pluto was much more massive than what it turned out to be.
Yes, it is about control! I want to control and prevent the idiots that walk in the deep wilderness and blast their shitty (or even good) music or youtube videos for everyone to hear on their shitty-tinny sounding cellphone speaker or slightly better sounding portable bluetooth speaker that still doesn't sound much better than an transistor AM radio from the 70's.
More power to the Icelanders to keep cell-towers out of this area.
For me anyways. Games today are like superhero, action, and even drama movies-it's the same concept rehashed over and over again. I've little enthusiasm to start playing something I've seen 30 times already, let alone finish it.
Boring, poorly directed cut-scenes with mediocre CGI and bad voice acting over and over again. Ooooh, let's also make the longer cutscenes unskippable. Games that almost play themselves because your character can fight by themselves without any interaction from the gamer. Now they are changing history in games to appease the insane SJW crowd, most who aren't gamers, by adding gender fluid male lesbian shiny-blue-haired Generals to 'historically accurate' games.
It doesn't matter if it's some factory where the production line starts at processing raw ore and ends where steel pipes come out, or a company that makes software or movies. Both require a large initial investment.
A 5 inch screen that only shows you three apps at a time, max? This is what happens when business or art majors dictate UI design-form over function. Business majors want to make every website/app/application look like a car brochure, and art majors just care about how pretty something looks. Out the window goes usability. This tiling of 3-5 item per page design garbage is the worst user-unfriendly trend today, and it's not just found in Apples App store but you see it almost everywhere. Even on a 30" desktop monitor often on websites I see just a handful of giant square fracking tiles instead of a list of a couple dozen items so I can quickly skim over to see if something there is what I want instead of doing scroll-scroll-scroll-scroll or nextpage-nextpage-nextpage. The worst thing nowadays is we seem to put up with horrible UI design.
And by "list-view" I mean something what a spreadsheet looks like, and not one of these pseudo-list views that are 90% white space.
We always blame businesses & corporations for all of our problems, but their products and services are only a result of our consumption tastes.
We happily and eagerly spend money on their shiny-object crap which we don't really need, without thinking about all of the pollution created from obtaining, & refining natural resources, pollution from the factory, toxic chemicals used during manufacturing and cleaning of the final product that get dumped into lakes, rivers, oceans, then all of the packaging put around the product to make it look nice and something we just have to have. Then all the pollution that is created by a thousands of individual delivery vehicles on the road because we just have to have that little widget thingy tomorrow instead of waiting three days and picking it up on Saturday at the store you were planning on going to anyways.
We always blame the corporations but in the end it's only the people that can make any significant change by changing our consumption, and it has to be serious consumption change, not BS lip-service like banning plastic straws that I see in the news lately.
Throw in entire forested areas where the mature trees have been killed by invasive beetles & turned into bone-dry kindling, a century of forest-fire prevention policy of fighting every forest fire, thus stopping nature from doing it's own 'controlled burns' to burn up small areas of old dry growth, and large-scale clear-cutting that dries out nearby forested areas, well of course forest fires will become more common.
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I now have a rule at my home that when someone comes over for dinner or to watch a movie, everyone's phone goes gets left in their car or put in the drawer by the door until the evening is over. Nothing is more rude than someone who must reply or smiley or upvote something as mundane as someone's pic of new socks on facebook. They might as well just pull pull out a book and start reading.
Interestingly, most people so far have been OK with this,
That's rich! OP means they love the idea of UBI as long as they don't have to pay for it.
Google, Apple, Intel, Oracle, and hundreds of other tech companies set up headquarters in low-tax countries and divert billions of dollars there every year instead of paying the higher US tax rates which would benefit the US. I doubt they'll be so accommodating and willing to fit the bill to pay billions annually towards the 1M or more Californians that would gladly trade work for $15K for do nothing for $15K.
What's unfortunate is that your tongue-in-cheek statement is a prediction that will likely come true.
I agree, 10.6, the last really good OSX UI, was beautiful and each bit of functionality was visible and stood out from the background and other buttons. Buttons stood out, icons stood out, everything was beveled. Then came Lion and everything went to grey on grey on grey shit.
Or IOS 6. I have a 3GS that I use for playing tunes in the home gym occasionally and the UI is so scrumptiously beautiful functional. Everything is beveled and high-contrast so everything stands out. Black buttons with white text. White background with black text. None of this button substituted with a text link surrounded by a barely visible grey background that 1 shade darker than the background.
I thought this was news for nerds,news that matters.
Buy more RAM.
So what are YOU doing to negate the affects of supposed man-made climate change?
Have you given up your modern super-consumer-consumption-of-everyting-plastic 2018 lifestyle to live a more sustainable life like people did in the 1950s or earlier? Do you adamantly refuse to buy anything made of or enclosed in plastic? Do you refuse to ride in gasoline-engine cars and walk or ride a bike EVERYWHERE? Refuse to wear clothing from man-made fibers derived from oil and only wear clothing made of natural fibers like hemp, cotton, or jute? You gonna wear burlap shoes with leather soles instead of soft cushioned comfortable oil-derived athletic shoes when you play sports? Do you only eat local foods and refuse eat produce imported from thousands of mile away because ? Unless you live in a warm climate then say goodbye to bananas and fresh vegetables in the winter months except for local grown that can be stored for months like parsnip, potatoes, and carrots. How about never flying anywhere on a fuel guzzling jet anywhere for the rest of your life? I suspect the answer to all of these questions would be NO!
That's the problem with the majority of climate change proponents. They are all talk and no action. They loudly scream and yell how climate change affects must be mitigated, but refuse to do anything about it because don't want to give up their cushy modern lifestyle. At least the adamant deniers aren't being hypocrites.
I just got back from a week in Miami. 30 years ago the "climatologists" were predicting the Keys and a third of continental Florida would be underwater by now. Well gosh, to my surprise it hasn't happened yet. In fact almost nothing that has been predicted has happened. The visible negative effects of climate change is a moving target like sustainable fusion power-it's always 20-50 years away.
This condescending-UI-design shxt that is forced upon us has got to stop.
For 25 years we've had a ubiquitous File-Edit-View-...-Help menu based UI that worked really well, then the artsy-fartsy graphic design people started getting into UI design and create things around fashion trends instead of what works well. So nowadays we now have ended up with desktop applications that hide all options under a single hamburger menu even when run on 4k monitors, corporate websites with generic full screen looping autoplay videos of some perfect-looking people walking around their office smiling and looking way to happy, stores that display search results that show only 4 items per screen because someone thought that everyone wants to see giant thumbnails of each product instead of a list of 20 items they can quickly skim through, light grey-text on a darker grey-background, and Start menus that replaced fly-out menus with big square blocks.
Oh and stop designing searches that OR words by default instead of ANDing words. I would rather see e-commerce websites that return 11 items specific to all my search terms instead of returning 800 items that have nothing to do with what I am looking for.
People need to stop this change-the-UI for sake of change nonsense and just get back to the basics of usability and let users customize the UI they way they want and stop forcing people to use their crappy UI-designs.
Oh and linux UI-designers, stop copying and bringing over the worst annoying features of OSX and Windows. Oh how I long for the return to the end-to-end customizability of KDE3 and Konqueror.
Probably not, because when a man is recognized for his achievement we all know, without even saying, that the man accomplished something standing on the shoulders of others that came before him.
Whereas when a woman is recognized for her achievement, every story invariably has a huge feminist, sexist,& misandrist SJW agenda and is spun into a story which portrays her as a brave courageous one-woman-army heroine who struggled, battled, and clashed everyday against male-created roadblocks that were erected everywhere she turned. The brave courageous woman never gave up and soldiered on and used her superior feminine ingenuity and intellect to overcome, beat, overthrow, and succeed against the misogynistic hierarchy created by all men who tried to destroy her work and accomplishments in her crusade against male domination.
So ya, nowadays every time there is a story about some woman's historical accomplishment I always take it with a grain of critical salt.
Nearly 100% of our food and drink comes in plastic containers, or metal containers with an internal plastic coating, or wrapped in plastic. Even fruit & vegetables all have those little annoying plastic code stickers.
Then everything we don't eat but use on a daily basis is made of plastic or comes in plastic containers-keyboards, mouse, pens, pencils, phone/tablet protectors, computer accessories, power tools, yoga pants, stretchy athletic clothing, shoes, socks, gloves, toothbrush, brushes, dental floss, body wash, shampoo, to name just a few.
On top of that everything we buy is comes in plastic shrink molding or wrapped in layers of plastic.
Is it really surprising that some of this stuff wears off and gets into our bodies?
Did some project manager at Apple fire up their 25-year old 486 running Windows 3.1, play with theme settings, and think "How can we market this today"?
Apple really is running out of ideas.
It's not just about advertising, but this story describes an issue that is a subset of a much larger and growing issue: generally lousy search engines on retail sites that return either not enough or way too many results. It's not just amazon, but many of the big retailers have searches that if they do return items results specific to my search, and pad my results with dozens or hundreds results from departments and categories that have no relation to my search terms.
One one site I search for WASHERS and I did get washers in the results, plus WASHing machines, items related to WASHing clothes, babies, pets, or cars, and best of all, items for fans of the WASHington Capitals hockey team. Pretty much everything that has WASH as it's root word. What the hell?
Another large retail site I searched for drip pan and the results contain mostly anything to fix leaks from DRIPping roofs, faucets, eaves-troughs, plumbing, plus a wide assortment of fryPANs, a few lovely PANties, and drip plans were waaay down in the results.
Too many sites today are designed around business decisions with less regard to technical or usability decisions.
Offsets just move the pollution of manufacturing to somewhere else to another city, state, country, or another hemisphere. I think we've all seen how polluted areas of China are because everything we buy nowadays is made there. Clean water & air in US is great for us, but that's wont solve any global pollution issues as it just moves the problem somewhere else.
Tesla batteries weigh over 1000lb and all it does is roll along hard asphalt. I imagine tractor batteries will weigh 2-3x that if they expect it to run more than an hour doing heavy fieldwork. I can't imaging swapping out batteries packs weighing 2000lbs being very practical in time or money for farmers in their fields.
There are reasons why we don't put human feces, raw or treated, on the vegetable crops we eat. Look up something called Typhoid fever, for just one example.
Conversations with smart speaker owners usually go something like this:
Friend: "I just bought an Amazon Echo/Google/Apple/whoever smart speaker. It is amazing what it can do."
Me: "What can it do now that you could not do before?"
Friend:"Well it can control my Hue lights, make phone calls, and play music."
Me:"Can't you do that with your phone already?"
Friend:"Yes, but now I can use my smart speaker!"
Me:"So tap-tap-tap-tap on your phone was too much work?"
Friend:"No, but this is newer so it's cooler and more modern!"
Me:"You do know your voice is recorded and sent back to their servers, stored, and is accessible to them and to god-only-knows-whoever their business partners are, right?"
Friend:"They are a hi-tech company and they say they wouldn't do anything to violate my privacy with that, so there!"
Me:"So then, would it be ok if I install a microphone in your home that records whatever you say and have the recordings sent back to me? I will only store them, promise never to listen to them, and never use them for any other purpose without your consent. You can trust me!"
Friend:"NO NO NO! I will not let you do that-it would violate my privacy."
Me:"Sigh!"
It was stupendously better for all of your reasons and more.
There was almost no noise. Generally almost everything nowadays is just junk, fluff, filler, & clickbait.
Take recipes for instance. Even five years ago recipes were exactly that: recipes. A typical list of the ingredients with concise but clear directions. Nowadays looking up a recipe today invariably involves wading through screen after screen of some three-thousand word family history write-up about how the recipe is the author's grandmother's recipe and how everyone raved about it during holidays and neighbors came over to delight in her dish, and often the recipe is not even shown on the page-you have to play "find the 'Click here for recipe' link". Jezus christ!
You are incorrectly assuming that 'clearing it's orbit' is to be interpreted literally. It's not!
'Clearing its orbit ' doesn't mean an planet's orbit is completely devoid of any object, whether it's an asteroid hundreds of miles across. or a grain of sand. An object that is gravitational dominant in its orbit, has no other objects of comparable size in it's orbit and is not under the gravitational influence of any other objects with the exception of it's satellites has 'cleared it's orbit' and along with other criteria is classified as a planet.
Every day Earth, and every other large object in our solar system, is bombarded with thousands of meteors, most smaller than the grain of sand. Applying a literal definition of 'clearing it's orbit' would mean Earth is not a planet since these micro-meteors remain in its' orbit.
Pluto was mistakenly classified as a planet in the first place as I believe, and this comes from not always perfect memory, astronomers were looking for Planet X and Pluto just happened to be where PX was predicted, and they originally thought Pluto was much more massive than what it turned out to be.
Yes, it is about control!
I want to control and prevent the idiots that walk in the deep wilderness and blast their shitty (or even good) music or youtube videos for everyone to hear on their shitty-tinny sounding cellphone speaker or slightly better sounding portable bluetooth speaker that still doesn't sound much better than an transistor AM radio from the 70's.
More power to the Icelanders to keep cell-towers out of this area.
For me anyways. Games today are like superhero, action, and even drama movies-it's the same concept rehashed over and over again. I've little enthusiasm to start playing something I've seen 30 times already, let alone finish it.
Boring, poorly directed cut-scenes with mediocre CGI and bad voice acting over and over again.
Ooooh, let's also make the longer cutscenes unskippable.
Games that almost play themselves because your character can fight by themselves without any interaction from the gamer.
Now they are changing history in games to appease the insane SJW crowd, most who aren't gamers, by adding gender fluid male lesbian shiny-blue-haired Generals to 'historically accurate' games.
It doesn't matter if it's some factory where the production line starts at processing raw ore and ends where steel pipes come out, or a company that makes software or movies. Both require a large initial investment.
Comments and people can be banned by admins in FB groups.
I don't think you have a good understanding of what a monopoly is.
A 5 inch screen that only shows you three apps at a time, max?
This is what happens when business or art majors dictate UI design-form over function. Business majors want to make every website/app/application look like a car brochure, and art majors just care about how pretty something looks. Out the window goes usability.
This tiling of 3-5 item per page design garbage is the worst user-unfriendly trend today, and it's not just found in Apples App store but you see it almost everywhere. Even on a 30" desktop monitor often on websites I see just a handful of giant square fracking tiles instead of a list of a couple dozen items so I can quickly skim over to see if something there is what I want instead of doing scroll-scroll-scroll-scroll or nextpage-nextpage-nextpage. The worst thing nowadays is we seem to put up with horrible UI design.
And by "list-view" I mean something what a spreadsheet looks like, and not one of these pseudo-list views that are 90% white space.
We always blame businesses & corporations for all of our problems, but their products and services are only a result of our consumption tastes.
We happily and eagerly spend money on their shiny-object crap which we don't really need, without thinking about all of the pollution created from obtaining, & refining natural resources, pollution from the factory, toxic chemicals used during manufacturing and cleaning of the final product that get dumped into lakes, rivers, oceans, then all of the packaging put around the product to make it look nice and something we just have to have. Then all the pollution that is created by a thousands of individual delivery vehicles on the road because we just have to have that little widget thingy tomorrow instead of waiting three days and picking it up on Saturday at the store you were planning on going to anyways.
We always blame the corporations but in the end it's only the people that can make any significant change by changing our consumption, and it has to be serious consumption change, not BS lip-service like banning plastic straws that I see in the news lately.
Throw in entire forested areas where the mature trees have been killed by invasive beetles & turned into bone-dry kindling, a century of forest-fire prevention policy of fighting every forest fire, thus stopping nature from doing it's own 'controlled burns' to burn up small areas of old dry growth, and large-scale clear-cutting that dries out nearby forested areas, well of course forest fires will become more common.