Smart? In what way? All I see here is the beginning of the end of Google as we knew it.
Timeline as I see it: Google does good innovative work, launches IPO, jumps on the "me too" bandwagon looking to brand anything it can wherever there is a vaguely related market. There's another large brand I can think of that does this... *Cough* MSN *Cough*.
Hydrogen is just easier to migrate to than some alternatives. Your 454 big block can be converted to run H2 gas if it needs to (albiet with some mods), and much of the existing petroleum infrastructure can remain in place.
Solar is nice if it works, but currently nuclear energy is a more likely source for hydrogen conversion. And H2 is an higher density way to distribute the engery. So who benefits? We do, and the energy companies do.
Part of repatition training for humans is to transform a computational movement into a reaction movement. If you repeat something enough, it eventually gets hardwired (my lower brain is an FPGA!?!) and you no longer have to think/compute about it.
I think a "tri-layer" approach is good, with a sense-response layer (step back - ouch, that's hot) deferring to a trained-response layer (walking) then to a computed-response layer (walking over a rock garden). And if you walk over a rock garden often enough, the evolved and successful patterns used get transferred to the trained layer to make it "second nature".
But I'm just pulling this out of my ass, you'd need to find a hot robot expert to 2nd my opinion...
Given the frequency that this kind of thing happens, I'm surprised that post-grad courses don't get serious with educating their students about these problems. Even the IT dept could help with large BACK UP YOUR FILES signs in the labs.
Couldn't you just resize the window slightly? Eg, make foreground window a fraction larger and maybe a touch lighter, with corner (or time-dependant - this is nice) drop shadow, and optional highlight on the opposing edges. Eg, make better use of perspective and depth, not just lighting.
You could probably give the window a harder that normal edge too. The current screenshots just looked weird to me, with their shadows showing everywhere, willy-nilly. Sure, they were pretty slick, but too fuzzy and "hey look, we've got shadows!".
I'd always assumed that too. One newer development I've noticed is the latest hit video clips player on some free-to-air TV channels often have a "glitch" in the audio.
Next time you see the Jetsons, notice what's missing - nature. Apartments work rather well, just not when idealists with surburban dreams do it. City people actually do ok in that environment.
Problem is that you're right. Urban sprawl would increase, and pollution would increase. We'd still have the roading network increasing too, because we'd need the regular services and infrastructure stuff to happen too.
I know you're joking, but the one I'm waiting for lives on your cellphone and spreads via mms and bluetooth, and can access the GPRS networks. Most new mobiles have cameras, and many newer models have video capability too. That could be, um, fun.
Try to sell them the text interface and they call it crap.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what it's all about. The reason usability is so hot these days is not because geeks want to make better software, it's because companies want to sell more software. Does Joe Coder care that his chat UI is "too hard"? Probably not, but someone leveraging and/or reselling his work sure does.
I think improved usability is a good thing, but it's not all about the touchy-feely goodness we'd like to think it is. More punter friendly apps mean more sales to the masses. That's why FOSS usability is really important now.
Fair enough. I'm just saying the "threat" is way overstated than it is real. Most folks are in more danger just going to work than they are when flying.
And me. I've got no desire whatsoever to visit the US now. Thought it might be nice for a look once, but not any longer. Might go to Canada and Mexico though, if I can arrange flights that bypass the US.
Wow, you really believe all that don't you? You're far more likely to be blown up by a baggage handler or ground crew than your fellow passenger. And what's more, your far more likely to be killed by a mugger or the guy living down the road than a terrorist. Wake up and smell the BS.
It's about compensating for inept security staff. The 9/11 guys *had* passports, but at least some of them should have been stopped for dodgy visas, IIRC. I'd say this is more a way of removing the human from the ID checking process - instead of having them notice details and remember warnings, they just have to scan the passport and the computer pops up a "Detain this man!" dialog. Which makes lots of sense in a snake-oil way, if you don't understand the technology behind it.
There's only one thing that I like about MySQL... SAP-DB. - er, MaxDB, and even that's sufficiently different from MySQL database to avoid the whole PHP/FanBoy mess. However, Postgresql is "good enough" for 90% of apps. Oracle is certainly good enough for the remaining 10%.
I reckon that now that MySQL is dealing with one of the big boys (SAP) they think they're the shiznit. They think they have the PHP and web server-side arena sewn up, so now they're trying to assert themselves in the larger market.
Roughly put, they're setting themselves up for a fall. MySQL database might be owned by a company, but it was tested and supported by the wider community. If MySQL starts screwing with their supporters they'll lose them to Postgresql, Firebird, or whatever. Much of the software using MySQL is opensource, and it can be ported to another database just as soon as the need is there.
That is extremely unprofessional on the part of the ISP. Disabling the link for "security reasons" is ok, but why did *you* have to call to find out? I don't think it's unreasonable for them to tell their client when they're cutting the service.
From what I could Google, only Apple's Lisa (introduced in 1983) and Macintosh had those features on the market in 1984. In 1985 however, things changed dramatically...
Consumers are using IE 5.5? Fark off, they're users, customers even, but NOT consumers. Nothing is being consumed, except perhaps some bile every time the software craps out. It's time corporations gave some respect to the people who keep them in business.
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True that. If the girlfriend is faking - but staying anyway, and not cheating - she's thinking of the long term wife stuff...
Smart? In what way? All I see here is the beginning of the end of Google as we knew it.
Timeline as I see it: Google does good innovative work, launches IPO, jumps on the "me too" bandwagon looking to brand anything it can wherever there is a vaguely related market. There's another large brand I can think of that does this... *Cough* MSN *Cough*.
Hydrogen is just easier to migrate to than some alternatives. Your 454 big block can be converted to run H2 gas if it needs to (albiet with some mods), and much of the existing petroleum infrastructure can remain in place.
Solar is nice if it works, but currently nuclear energy is a more likely source for hydrogen conversion. And H2 is an higher density way to distribute the engery. So who benefits? We do, and the energy companies do.
What did you expect? They're Gen-X right?
Why does it have to be either/or?
Part of repatition training for humans is to transform a computational movement into a reaction movement. If you repeat something enough, it eventually gets hardwired (my lower brain is an FPGA!?!) and you no longer have to think/compute about it.
I think a "tri-layer" approach is good, with a sense-response layer (step back - ouch, that's hot) deferring to a trained-response layer (walking) then to a computed-response layer (walking over a rock garden). And if you walk over a rock garden often enough, the evolved and successful patterns used get transferred to the trained layer to make it "second nature".
But I'm just pulling this out of my ass, you'd need to find a hot robot expert to 2nd my opinion...
Given the frequency that this kind of thing happens, I'm surprised that post-grad courses don't get serious with educating their students about these problems. Even the IT dept could help with large BACK UP YOUR FILES signs in the labs.
Couldn't you just resize the window slightly? Eg, make foreground window a fraction larger and maybe a touch lighter, with corner (or time-dependant - this is nice) drop shadow, and optional highlight on the opposing edges. Eg, make better use of perspective and depth, not just lighting.
You could probably give the window a harder that normal edge too. The current screenshots just looked weird to me, with their shadows showing everywhere, willy-nilly. Sure, they were pretty slick, but too fuzzy and "hey look, we've got shadows!".
So whaddya reckon's going on? Oversight, advertising, or market research?
I'd always assumed that too. One newer development I've noticed is the latest hit video clips player on some free-to-air TV channels often have a "glitch" in the audio.
Yeh, about those trailers...i ng_trailers.htm
http://www.acpropulsion.com/Products/Range_extend
Next time you see the Jetsons, notice what's missing - nature. Apartments work rather well, just not when idealists with surburban dreams do it. City people actually do ok in that environment.
Problem is that you're right. Urban sprawl would increase, and pollution would increase. We'd still have the roading network increasing too, because we'd need the regular services and infrastructure stuff to happen too.
I know you're joking, but the one I'm waiting for lives on your cellphone and spreads via mms and bluetooth, and can access the GPRS networks. Most new mobiles have cameras, and many newer models have video capability too. That could be, um, fun.
Try to sell them the text interface and they call it crap.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what it's all about. The reason usability is so hot these days is not because geeks want to make better software, it's because companies want to sell more software. Does Joe Coder care that his chat UI is "too hard"? Probably not, but someone leveraging and/or reselling his work sure does.
I think improved usability is a good thing, but it's not all about the touchy-feely goodness we'd like to think it is. More punter friendly apps mean more sales to the masses. That's why FOSS usability is really important now.
Fair enough. I'm just saying the "threat" is way overstated than it is real. Most folks are in more danger just going to work than they are when flying.
And me. I've got no desire whatsoever to visit the US now. Thought it might be nice for a look once, but not any longer. Might go to Canada and Mexico though, if I can arrange flights that bypass the US.
Wow, you really believe all that don't you? You're far more likely to be blown up by a baggage handler or ground crew than your fellow passenger. And what's more, your far more likely to be killed by a mugger or the guy living down the road than a terrorist. Wake up and smell the BS.
It's about compensating for inept security staff. The 9/11 guys *had* passports, but at least some of them should have been stopped for dodgy visas, IIRC. I'd say this is more a way of removing the human from the ID checking process - instead of having them notice details and remember warnings, they just have to scan the passport and the computer pops up a "Detain this man!" dialog. Which makes lots of sense in a snake-oil way, if you don't understand the technology behind it.
And men haven't changed since.
There's only one thing that I like about MySQL... SAP-DB. - er, MaxDB, and even that's sufficiently different from MySQL database to avoid the whole PHP/FanBoy mess. However, Postgresql is "good enough" for 90% of apps. Oracle is certainly good enough for the remaining 10%.
I reckon that now that MySQL is dealing with one of the big boys (SAP) they think they're the shiznit. They think they have the PHP and web server-side arena sewn up, so now they're trying to assert themselves in the larger market.
Roughly put, they're setting themselves up for a fall. MySQL database might be owned by a company, but it was tested and supported by the wider community. If MySQL starts screwing with their supporters they'll lose them to Postgresql, Firebird, or whatever. Much of the software using MySQL is opensource, and it can be ported to another database just as soon as the need is there.
That is extremely unprofessional on the part of the ISP. Disabling the link for "security reasons" is ok, but why did *you* have to call to find out? I don't think it's unreasonable for them to tell their client when they're cutting the service.
Sounds close to me - in first year. The female drop out rate was pretty high in my courses, so the numbers were lower my the end of it.
From what I could Google, only Apple's Lisa (introduced in 1983) and Macintosh had those features on the market in 1984. In 1985 however, things changed dramatically...
http://www.thocp.net/timeline/1984.htm
Funny you say that... that's exactly the reason I chose the Amiga over the PC, back in the day.
Consumers are using IE 5.5? Fark off, they're users, customers even, but NOT consumers. Nothing is being consumed, except perhaps some bile every time the software craps out. It's time corporations gave some respect to the people who keep them in business.