However, given the perfectly valid observation that people on Facebook are much, much less selective about who they "friend" than in real life, the results will inevitably be skewed as a result.
I'm not sure that it isn't a reflection. Myself and my friends tend to be reclusive, we never accept friend invites from people we don't know (I don't even use my real name in FB, so I can do this with impunity). However some of my family are far more gregarious, and not only have more real friends but don't tend to be as exclusive with friend invites.
To the degree that a bullshit term like "degrees of separation" is meaningful or useable, and that a bullshit number like "4.74" qualifies such a term, it seems like using facebook as a model is reasonable enough.
Welcome to 2010, businesses use groupon to drive customers in with discounts, and suddenly are surprised when customers show up. Groupon goes away, so do the customers (at least most of them, depending on how good your product was compared to competition), and businesses whine again that the money machine doesn't work.
You must be new to the orgy thing, I didn't leave my last orgy for 72 hours, and that was just a shower break to maintain hygiene. And "bed", at an orgy? That's just for nipple sushi.
Without [citation] it's just some crackpots in a room. If every unpublished/unreviewed study became accepted fact we'd all be running from cold fusion batteries.
I say, based on a sample size of one, that smartphones (with a set of parentally screened apps) are the best toy I've ever gotten for my child. He can read, he knows all his colors, advanced geometry shapes, all his numbers, and has incredible problem solving skills for a 3 yo (compared to his cousins, who are raised by more luddite parents). In the spirit of fair and balanced: the "cost" is social interaction and his language development. That's ok with me. These are not the most important skills in my own judgement. Psychologists don't agree with me, but that's ok, they're not raising him and taking responsibility for him.
The goal of raising a child is for him to be functional in the society in which he lives. That society is going to be incredibly technology oriented and even dependent. The value of direct human interaction will continue to decline, as it has for the past century. And that's ok, if we are creating technology to reduce it, it must not have been very desirable.
I think it's unfair to say they were "stealing". Apple's license agreement forbid doing what people wanted to do. Many people bought the OS X for their Hackintosh even if the image that they ran was downloaded b/c it was hard to do.
I would go as far as to say that looks like one of the simplest and least complicated designs I've seen. Also it should be noted that small and cheap compete with one another. Cheap things they that cost space- fewer routing layers (components & traces often need to be farther apart for impedance & via room), using larger components (0402 or bigger generally), not using blind/buried vias, using routing space for power. Small things they did that added cost- front/back side assembly, through hole components on a mostly SM design.
It looks like a fairly simple design. I'd try to get rid of the through-hole stuff unless it's just debug, that adds a step in mfg which can raise cost and also causes place keepouts to eat up valuable real-estate.
The post should have raid "Board layout review, all slashdotters attend".
Java is NOT an upgrade to C++. There was a fork in the road, to the left went C++ to the right went Java. C++ took you through a swamp filled with poisonous snakes, quicksand and man eating spiders. Java took you through a haunted forest, with werewolves and zombies.
No matter which path you took, you died before reaching your goal.
I don't get why there is this push away from the program menu we have been using for over 15 years
That's what Shuttleworth is apparently missing. When good changes come, we do tend to love them. When we got the start menu in 95, I don't think anyone really wanted to go back to program manager (barring a few issues with programs not being imported during upgrade). It was a wholly better way of doing things, and I couldn't wait until someone managed to hack it in to X. While we had to change our habits, I don't recall feeling quite this level of disgust.
If someone comes up wit ha better way of managing a desktop, I'm positive I will change.
Yeah in most cases, they THINK they're going fast, but someone always wants to go faster. But really it doesn't matter, driving side-by-side is just stupid unless it's a big traffic jam and no one is going anywhere. If you're side by side you have nowhere to go if you need to dodge something.
Pass or get right, it's a great idea no matter what you think of the speed limit.
So, when it was down to getting caught by the occasional police officer hidden in the bushes, the game was fair.
No, if he had to hide in the bushes he obviously not being highly visible and setting an example to everyone to be safe. He's a predator looking to slap someone with a ticket.
I've never met anyone who has used Ubuntu and who likes Unity, power user, novice, script kiddie... It is bloated, slow and difficult to use (I suppose unless you're on a tablet/netbook). Gnome 3 still sucks as a UI, but it's at least responsive. The worst feature of unity is changing the "start menu" to that stupid search box. We use UIs because we're not able to remember names and obscure commands and parameters, but now they give us a UI that may as well have been a command prompt with find / -name "$1" built in to it.
Netbooks or tablets MAY take over one day, I personally don't think so, but for now if it's not iPad it's irrelevant, and if you're using Ubuntu you're not using an iPad. Stop dicking around, learn from Microsoft and the benighted ribbon interface.
While the technology to create such a fortress surely will come soon, I have real doubts about the technology to maintain such a fortress. The rich cannot sleep well as long as the poor serve their needs.
The irony being that, although they do have a system to order food and drinks that doesn't necessarily involve talking, frequently one does need to talk. The wait staff is continuously whispering to people to make sure they are receiving the correct order. This is pretty distracting, but then I go to the Alamo Drafthouse for exactly this service and I just have to accept a certain level of distraction.
I like the Alamo Drafthouse, their "concessions" beat the crap out of the overpriced Cinemark down the street, but one thing you are not getting there is silence and full devotion and reverence to the movie. If anything it's a nod to the fact that many of us in the audience aren't there to watch a movie so much as sit in an air conditioned theater away from our own children, with each other, sharing a relaxing (and typically mind numbing) experience, but also resting the frayed nerves one receives after a week of maximizing shareholder potential, balancing our finances, maintaining our habitat and trying to raise our spawn to be good citizens.
Sports bring in the bucks. Segmented academics (i.e. gifted/avg/remedial) costs money, art costs money, band costs money (though sometimes brings in money). This is real life, I don't agree with it, but it's good preparation.
Also down here in the US, our employers can suspend/terminate our employment for very similar reasons if our names are associated with them somehow. My former employer was well known for terminating employees for any number of out of work/no-work-related offsenses such as: getting in a bar brawl at the local titty bar (purportedly regarding one man banging the other man's wife), publishing some anti-Chinese government screed after having been sent there for 6 months by said employer, and expressing displeasure at the termination of another employee for recreational marijuana use off-campus and after hours.
I think the kid is getting a taste of what being an adult is like, and I hope he likes it as poorly as we do. I don't know what legal protections are offered in Canada for this sort of thing, but this is what freedom of speech really means, at least down here. It's free assuming you can afford it.
But I really think it's the apps we do not ask for, but are pushed down to us from our carriers that are the real evil. I'm fairly careful about what apps I have installed, performance was great until things "started appearing". Things I can't delete... Not coincidentally, that's also when i started seeing performance issues on my phone.
I don't think most Americans drive expensive German sports sedans. We drive decidedly crappier, cheaper cars and make quasi-informed guesses about the tradeoff we are making when we purchase. We can have the PC vs. Mac argument again...but I don't think anyone cares.
I acknowledge the feature loss at the point of sale, any subsequent bitching I do is a direct result of that decision. The value of that decision was $50, a quantity I can compare against other goods. I accept at that point that as long as I have that laptop (and I do not know how long that will be ahead of time), I will have to cope with a glossy screen.
Regardless, the biggest obstacle to me is that I don't actually believe it costs anything, that $50 is just extortion. Kind of like "I can sell you a car with square tires, or for $500 more, I can sell you a car with round tires".
I'm saying I won't pay $50 for it. Slicing it up into minutes, days, months, years is a meaningless rationalization. Divide any number up over enough units and it appears small.
I prefer it strongly, but to save $50 I will cope with glossy.
You sound like the car salesman who fought with me on my last car over $3000 on a $30k car, arguing it's "not that much", he lost the sale (and his commission) to his competition. $50 is $50, $3000 is $3000. $50 will buy me a piece of software, several DVDs, a steak dinner for my wife and I. I don't care how much you divide it up over a lifetime, money is still money.
The conclusion is "Customers do not wish to pay $50 for matte", not "Customers do not want matte". I use the same logic on text message plans, I'm not going to pay money for something that is essentially free to the carrier, but who is charging me some bullshit "value pricing". Of course I will use it if I have it, and thus of course I want it, the question is how much do I think it is worth (and to what degree will I suffer to avoid paying for it).
For doing schematics/layout and some visualization work 1920x1080 is preferable to 1600x1200. In these scenarios more pixels is more important than more vertical pixels. I think it depends on what you do for a living. We can debate about things like Excel...sometimes more columns > rows, but frequently not.
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However, given the perfectly valid observation that people on Facebook are much, much less selective about who they "friend" than in real life, the results will inevitably be skewed as a result.
I'm not sure that it isn't a reflection. Myself and my friends tend to be reclusive, we never accept friend invites from people we don't know (I don't even use my real name in FB, so I can do this with impunity). However some of my family are far more gregarious, and not only have more real friends but don't tend to be as exclusive with friend invites.
To the degree that a bullshit term like "degrees of separation" is meaningful or useable, and that a bullshit number like "4.74" qualifies such a term, it seems like using facebook as a model is reasonable enough.
Welcome to 2010, businesses use groupon to drive customers in with discounts, and suddenly are surprised when customers show up. Groupon goes away, so do the customers (at least most of them, depending on how good your product was compared to competition), and businesses whine again that the money machine doesn't work.
You must be new to the orgy thing, I didn't leave my last orgy for 72 hours, and that was just a shower break to maintain hygiene. And "bed", at an orgy? That's just for nipple sushi.
Without [citation] it's just some crackpots in a room. If every unpublished/unreviewed study became accepted fact we'd all be running from cold fusion batteries.
I say, based on a sample size of one, that smartphones (with a set of parentally screened apps) are the best toy I've ever gotten for my child. He can read, he knows all his colors, advanced geometry shapes, all his numbers, and has incredible problem solving skills for a 3 yo (compared to his cousins, who are raised by more luddite parents). In the spirit of fair and balanced: the "cost" is social interaction and his language development. That's ok with me. These are not the most important skills in my own judgement. Psychologists don't agree with me, but that's ok, they're not raising him and taking responsibility for him.
The goal of raising a child is for him to be functional in the society in which he lives. That society is going to be incredibly technology oriented and even dependent. The value of direct human interaction will continue to decline, as it has for the past century. And that's ok, if we are creating technology to reduce it, it must not have been very desirable.
I think it's unfair to say they were "stealing". Apple's license agreement forbid doing what people wanted to do. Many people bought the OS X for their Hackintosh even if the image that they ran was downloaded b/c it was hard to do.
I hope the pros do not put all my eggs in one basket. *I* could have done that.
I would go as far as to say that looks like one of the simplest and least complicated designs I've seen. Also it should be noted that small and cheap compete with one another. Cheap things they that cost space- fewer routing layers (components & traces often need to be farther apart for impedance & via room), using larger components (0402 or bigger generally), not using blind/buried vias, using routing space for power. Small things they did that added cost- front/back side assembly, through hole components on a mostly SM design.
It looks like a fairly simple design. I'd try to get rid of the through-hole stuff unless it's just debug, that adds a step in mfg which can raise cost and also causes place keepouts to eat up valuable real-estate.
The post should have raid "Board layout review, all slashdotters attend".
Java is NOT an upgrade to C++. There was a fork in the road, to the left went C++ to the right went Java. C++ took you through a swamp filled with poisonous snakes, quicksand and man eating spiders. Java took you through a haunted forest, with werewolves and zombies.
No matter which path you took, you died before reaching your goal.
There's a lot of hazardous chemicals in your average persons kitchen. I just try to avoid mixing the drano with the french onion soup.
> Pissed off
May I suggest rm -rf / ?
I don't get why there is this push away from the program menu we have been using for over 15 years
That's what Shuttleworth is apparently missing. When good changes come, we do tend to love them. When we got the start menu in 95, I don't think anyone really wanted to go back to program manager (barring a few issues with programs not being imported during upgrade). It was a wholly better way of doing things, and I couldn't wait until someone managed to hack it in to X. While we had to change our habits, I don't recall feeling quite this level of disgust.
If someone comes up wit ha better way of managing a desktop, I'm positive I will change.
Yeah in most cases, they THINK they're going fast, but someone always wants to go faster. But really it doesn't matter, driving side-by-side is just stupid unless it's a big traffic jam and no one is going anywhere. If you're side by side you have nowhere to go if you need to dodge something.
Pass or get right, it's a great idea no matter what you think of the speed limit.
So, when it was down to getting caught by the occasional police officer hidden in the bushes, the game was fair.
No, if he had to hide in the bushes he obviously not being highly visible and setting an example to everyone to be safe. He's a predator looking to slap someone with a ticket.
But here in good ol texas we drive slow in the left lane and are proud. There's got to be lead in the water...
I've never met anyone who has used Ubuntu and who likes Unity, power user, novice, script kiddie... It is bloated, slow and difficult to use (I suppose unless you're on a tablet/netbook). Gnome 3 still sucks as a UI, but it's at least responsive. The worst feature of unity is changing the "start menu" to that stupid search box. We use UIs because we're not able to remember names and obscure commands and parameters, but now they give us a UI that may as well have been a command prompt with find / -name "$1" built in to it.
Netbooks or tablets MAY take over one day, I personally don't think so, but for now if it's not iPad it's irrelevant, and if you're using Ubuntu you're not using an iPad. Stop dicking around, learn from Microsoft and the benighted ribbon interface.
My wife won't let me, but I'd do it if I could.
While the technology to create such a fortress surely will come soon, I have real doubts about the technology to maintain such a fortress. The rich cannot sleep well as long as the poor serve their needs.
The irony being that, although they do have a system to order food and drinks that doesn't necessarily involve talking, frequently one does need to talk. The wait staff is continuously whispering to people to make sure they are receiving the correct order. This is pretty distracting, but then I go to the Alamo Drafthouse for exactly this service and I just have to accept a certain level of distraction.
I like the Alamo Drafthouse, their "concessions" beat the crap out of the overpriced Cinemark down the street, but one thing you are not getting there is silence and full devotion and reverence to the movie. If anything it's a nod to the fact that many of us in the audience aren't there to watch a movie so much as sit in an air conditioned theater away from our own children, with each other, sharing a relaxing (and typically mind numbing) experience, but also resting the frayed nerves one receives after a week of maximizing shareholder potential, balancing our finances, maintaining our habitat and trying to raise our spawn to be good citizens.
Sports bring in the bucks. Segmented academics (i.e. gifted/avg/remedial) costs money, art costs money, band costs money (though sometimes brings in money). This is real life, I don't agree with it, but it's good preparation.
Also down here in the US, our employers can suspend/terminate our employment for very similar reasons if our names are associated with them somehow. My former employer was well known for terminating employees for any number of out of work/no-work-related offsenses such as: getting in a bar brawl at the local titty bar (purportedly regarding one man banging the other man's wife), publishing some anti-Chinese government screed after having been sent there for 6 months by said employer, and expressing displeasure at the termination of another employee for recreational marijuana use off-campus and after hours.
I think the kid is getting a taste of what being an adult is like, and I hope he likes it as poorly as we do. I don't know what legal protections are offered in Canada for this sort of thing, but this is what freedom of speech really means, at least down here. It's free assuming you can afford it.
At the rate the sky is falling, we'll never have to worry about any of this.
But I really think it's the apps we do not ask for, but are pushed down to us from our carriers that are the real evil. I'm fairly careful about what apps I have installed, performance was great until things "started appearing". Things I can't delete... Not coincidentally, that's also when i started seeing performance issues on my phone.
I don't think most Americans drive expensive German sports sedans. We drive decidedly crappier, cheaper cars and make quasi-informed guesses about the tradeoff we are making when we purchase. We can have the PC vs. Mac argument again...but I don't think anyone cares.
I acknowledge the feature loss at the point of sale, any subsequent bitching I do is a direct result of that decision. The value of that decision was $50, a quantity I can compare against other goods. I accept at that point that as long as I have that laptop (and I do not know how long that will be ahead of time), I will have to cope with a glossy screen.
Regardless, the biggest obstacle to me is that I don't actually believe it costs anything, that $50 is just extortion. Kind of like "I can sell you a car with square tires, or for $500 more, I can sell you a car with round tires".
I'm saying I won't pay $50 for it. Slicing it up into minutes, days, months, years is a meaningless rationalization. Divide any number up over enough units and it appears small.
I prefer it strongly, but to save $50 I will cope with glossy.
You sound like the car salesman who fought with me on my last car over $3000 on a $30k car, arguing it's "not that much", he lost the sale (and his commission) to his competition. $50 is $50, $3000 is $3000. $50 will buy me a piece of software, several DVDs, a steak dinner for my wife and I. I don't care how much you divide it up over a lifetime, money is still money.
The conclusion is "Customers do not wish to pay $50 for matte", not "Customers do not want matte". I use the same logic on text message plans, I'm not going to pay money for something that is essentially free to the carrier, but who is charging me some bullshit "value pricing". Of course I will use it if I have it, and thus of course I want it, the question is how much do I think it is worth (and to what degree will I suffer to avoid paying for it).
For doing schematics/layout and some visualization work 1920x1080 is preferable to 1600x1200. In these scenarios more pixels is more important than more vertical pixels. I think it depends on what you do for a living. We can debate about things like Excel...sometimes more columns > rows, but frequently not.
For coding I agree, more rows >>> columns.