who are more than happy to live with a dramatically superior user experience
FTFY. Unless you were talking about yourself, in which case you'd say it is inferior. But you're clearly talking about other users, who obviously find it superior for their uses. I won't say it isn't inferior to you, but you seem to be claiming that your particular preferences are superior regardless of the use case?
You may want to revise the paper to take into account the different use cases for each browser. If users of a certain browser are more likely to be distracted or interrupted (like at work, for instance), and similarly if users of a certain browser are more likely to be looking for an easy-to-digest diversion and abandoning some harder puzzles (like at work), this would invalidate the conclusions. Your statistics might say more about where different browsers are likely to be found rather than about the users of those browsers.
Perhaps the book reviewer couldn't find any weak points that were noteworthy enough compared to the strong points? If you want a broader and more objective review, you have to look for book meta-reviews.
I'd say animals do have (some) rights, in the same sense that humans do, since we humans explicitly give them some rights as we give rights to ourselves. See animal cruelty laws and such, at least in most decent places. Now, whether this type of hunting is animal cruelty or not, I have no idea...
On the other hand, you could just avoid color printers for sensitive information. The paranoid can take the extra step of photocopying the pages to remove any other traces of printer fingerprints.
I find it's one of the most useful things I've encountered in Gnome 3, but I agree the top zone should be just the very edge of the screen, not the entire width of the panel. The side zone is hardly prone to accidents though, since you need to be dragging the titlebar, or Alt-dragging. In fact, since positioning windows by Alt-dragging around the center of the window is so much more convenient than hunting for the title bar, I'd argue that it doesn't matter how close to the edge you need to be.
Any application or window I open in Gnome 3 is invariably non-maximized, unless I had already maximized it before. The only difference to Gnome 2 I've found is that it's now easy to maximize by pulling the window to the top, or left/right edges for maximizing or half-maximizing respectively. Maybe everything will be forced full screen in the future, but Gnome 3 is fine.
I don't think everyone focusing on compassion is liable to eradicate religions anytime soon. You may have noticed that showing compassion is a difficult task for most.
I'm thinking this kind of mocking actually just increases their sales, judging by the quality displayed in this thread that I randomly found by searching for the manufacturer in question. After reading that, in case everyone here aren't already furiously headdesking, here's a quote from the main page: "I'm not a big fan of blind listening tests."
That's rather odd. I can see how a recycler might want the material to be already cleaned, but surely they can't rely on that and have to clean it anyway? Where I live, cleaning the recyclables means that e.g. jars are empty and given a quick rinse, not that you actually have to go in there with detergent and a steel brush. Basically they don't want big chunks of food complicating the cleaning process.
I'd say the opposite: anything that is a few hundred bucks but not a full DSLR. That level of technical sophistication is wasted unless you know why it is needed in some situations, and even then it's not mandatory just capture an image. Hence it's better for a novice to go with a pocket camera. In fact, it can be better for advanced and novice users alike:
Easy to carry anywhere: more opportunities to take photos
Less expensive/lighter weight: fewer worries about the hardware
Fewer functions to fiddle with: fewer distractions from the goal of taking a picture
There are many good pocket cameras that take good quality pictures, in general it should be enough just to pick a price point, and go with recent models from known brands: Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Panasonic, Olympus, and a few others.
I should point out that the size of the camera is very important. If you ever have to think "should I take the camera or not", your camera is not the right size for the job.
You are talking about the immediate context, but there's more than one layer to consider. More importantly: nobody gets to decide what is offensive to somebody else.
That's not the back of envelope calculation I was thinking of. Here's what I see as a simpler one: "Q: Would they use an antenna to transmit radio signals through unknown atmosphere in order to figure out the timing of an unrelated relativistic event to a precision of nanoseconds? A: That's a lot of complication, use atomic clocks instead!"
I'm sure that someone else at LHC thought of this, but you can't send radio signals through the earth like neutrinos. So the distance from the control mechanism to the antenna on the top of the building, should be about, say, 18m, right? (plus any curve in the earth's surface, assuming that the receiver is over the horizon.) This really sounds like an error in measurement, repeat with a receiver on the moon.
Antenna? Over the horizon? Please, do some back-of-the-envelope calculations. Furthermore, 18m is an absolutely enormous distance for today's positioning tools. It was an enormous distance 100 years ago!
Well that's all the same thing, really. If the trim is level with the surface, the plane will tend to climb or descend depending on airspeed/power setting, and introducing a bias compensates. And I meant that when the trim tab is ripped out on just one side for whatever reason, that would make the controls unstable.
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who are more than happy to live with a dramatically superior user experience
FTFY. Unless you were talking about yourself, in which case you'd say it is inferior. But you're clearly talking about other users, who obviously find it superior for their uses. I won't say it isn't inferior to you, but you seem to be claiming that your particular preferences are superior regardless of the use case?
The control comes through a signed contract, not any incentive.
Not a bad thing to get for your children, either.
At some point there'll be so much uncertainty in the source data, I can't derive anything anymore.
Now there's a conclusion! :)
You may want to revise the paper to take into account the different use cases for each browser. If users of a certain browser are more likely to be distracted or interrupted (like at work, for instance), and similarly if users of a certain browser are more likely to be looking for an easy-to-digest diversion and abandoning some harder puzzles (like at work), this would invalidate the conclusions. Your statistics might say more about where different browsers are likely to be found rather than about the users of those browsers.
Perhaps the book reviewer couldn't find any weak points that were noteworthy enough compared to the strong points? If you want a broader and more objective review, you have to look for book meta-reviews.
I'd say animals do have (some) rights, in the same sense that humans do, since we humans explicitly give them some rights as we give rights to ourselves. See animal cruelty laws and such, at least in most decent places. Now, whether this type of hunting is animal cruelty or not, I have no idea...
On the other hand, you could just avoid color printers for sensitive information. The paranoid can take the extra step of photocopying the pages to remove any other traces of printer fingerprints.
Gnome wants to remove that choice. They think everything should be maximised and have said so.
Why does TFA say the opposite of what you claim? Is this a technical or a mudslinging debate?
I find it's one of the most useful things I've encountered in Gnome 3, but I agree the top zone should be just the very edge of the screen, not the entire width of the panel. The side zone is hardly prone to accidents though, since you need to be dragging the titlebar, or Alt-dragging. In fact, since positioning windows by Alt-dragging around the center of the window is so much more convenient than hunting for the title bar, I'd argue that it doesn't matter how close to the edge you need to be.
I don't quite get the kerfuffle here..
Any application or window I open in Gnome 3 is invariably non-maximized, unless I had already maximized it before. The only difference to Gnome 2 I've found is that it's now easy to maximize by pulling the window to the top, or left/right edges for maximizing or half-maximizing respectively. Maybe everything will be forced full screen in the future, but Gnome 3 is fine.
I don't think everyone focusing on compassion is liable to eradicate religions anytime soon. You may have noticed that showing compassion is a difficult task for most.
Maybe you have some option set to ignore karma bonuses? There used to be these sorts of score adjustment controls, but I can't find them anymore.
I'm thinking this kind of mocking actually just increases their sales, judging by the quality displayed in this thread that I randomly found by searching for the manufacturer in question. After reading that, in case everyone here aren't already furiously headdesking, here's a quote from the main page: "I'm not a big fan of blind listening tests."
That's rather odd. I can see how a recycler might want the material to be already cleaned, but surely they can't rely on that and have to clean it anyway? Where I live, cleaning the recyclables means that e.g. jars are empty and given a quick rinse, not that you actually have to go in there with detergent and a steel brush. Basically they don't want big chunks of food complicating the cleaning process.
Are you paying them to sort the thrash? If yes, all is well. If not, you can pay the higher fee for the added service or sort it yourself.
There are many good pocket cameras that take good quality pictures, in general it should be enough just to pick a price point, and go with recent models from known brands: Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Panasonic, Olympus, and a few others.
I should point out that the size of the camera is very important. If you ever have to think "should I take the camera or not", your camera is not the right size for the job.
You are talking about the immediate context, but there's more than one layer to consider. More importantly: nobody gets to decide what is offensive to somebody else.
The magnet in question is a MRI magnet, the word "weak" simply does not apply.
That's not the back of envelope calculation I was thinking of. Here's what I see as a simpler one: "Q: Would they use an antenna to transmit radio signals through unknown atmosphere in order to figure out the timing of an unrelated relativistic event to a precision of nanoseconds? A: That's a lot of complication, use atomic clocks instead!"
I'm sure that someone else at LHC thought of this, but you can't send radio signals through the earth like neutrinos. So the distance from the control mechanism to the antenna on the top of the building, should be about, say, 18m, right? (plus any curve in the earth's surface, assuming that the receiver is over the horizon.) This really sounds like an error in measurement, repeat with a receiver on the moon.
Antenna? Over the horizon? Please, do some back-of-the-envelope calculations. Furthermore, 18m is an absolutely enormous distance for today's positioning tools. It was an enormous distance 100 years ago!
That is not very impressive, since the glow from a CRT is enough to reconstruct the image on the screen.
I do this every day using organically grown Eyeball technology, in fact.
Good point, didn't think of that. IANAP, but it seems the P-51 has trim tabs on both sides, based on photos.
That applies to all aircraft incidents these days. Multiple reasons is the norm..
Well that's all the same thing, really. If the trim is level with the surface, the plane will tend to climb or descend depending on airspeed/power setting, and introducing a bias compensates. And I meant that when the trim tab is ripped out on just one side for whatever reason, that would make the controls unstable.