I don't know about you but I use Google as a tool, when they change the tool (especially one that works so well) it is disorienting.
I've noticed that over the last couple of years Google has been trying to slide in several features for no apparent reason. I don't know why they felt it necessary to add fade-in on configuration options, background images on their main page or endlessly scrolling image results with a scripted zoom effect on mouseover but they seem compelled to tamper with the GUI for no good reason.
I am beginning to resent Google because of all this unwanted jiggery-pokery, not so much because of wild changes that happen with little to no warning but more because the changes they make seem trivial at best and annoying at worst.
Seriously though, the workstation/connection I have here at work I could move the mouse on Friday and the screen will update by Tuesday. To which I ask, what's the bloody point of it?
Agreed, mind you the decision making powers at the time were too busy buying missiles with sand warheads... I love my country.
I maintain to this day that had we continued AvroCar and giant cannon development we'd rule this earth, with lasers, robots and polite letters of fury!
Well in this case after the freeze frame at the apex of the jump they just keep going (can a "yeeee haaaaaaaaw" be sustained for longer than a few minutes?? When does it become awkward or correct to stop?? So many questions!)
The key difference with someone like Tycho is that he has built up credibility. We may not see eye to eye on a lot of things but at least I can "trust" what he says to be his genuine perspective.
Sadly, game reviewing seems to be one of those wells that is all too easy to poison...
Video game reviewing is probably one of the least credible forms of "journalism" out there. Back in the day it was magazine editors that were getting rewards for pushing reviews in perhaps more positive directions than they needed to be. Then it was game reviewing websites. Now it's a swarm of goobers who post "user" reviews to sites.
I'm fairly confident in saying that video game reviews, for the most part, are useless (or perhaps to be taken for entertainment purposes only).
There was a dismissive comment recently modded down about being "easily amused" by the bleeps and bloops, well that may be so, but it sure adds flavor to the process.
I can imagine how various sorting operations work in my head but I never thought about what they might sound like, and that makes them just a little more interesting.:-)
It's not so much about being popular, it's about being completely ousted.
Once you are blackballed in elementary school it can take more than a decade to undo the damage.
Or you can be like many nerds (myself included) who after years of inflicted upon social isolation you just don't give a damn anymore and fit in just about anywhere.
Definitely get into TDD and do some reading on "inversion of control" it really makes you think about how rigid your classes should or shouldn't be. I wish I had some good links handy on both subjects.
I got into both a few years ago at about the same time it was one of those "eureka" moments for me.
I actually look forward to writing the test cases first, it points out all the design flaws I overlooked on paper or in prototyping.
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Y'know, I don't know about the rest of you, but for me the harder they try to get me to buy stupid shit the more I feel that I don't want to buy things advertised in mass media.
I see these billboards as a giant warning sign of what NOT to buy. If I fall into some assumed demographic and I don't already have the product I likely don't need it anyway.
Ok, I don't know anything about this stuff but basically SETI is a big radio telescope array right? And we get data from all these stars using other radio telescopes right? So at some point we take the data of stuff we know (stars, whatever else) and take it out of the SETI picture right?
That leaves us with a lot of radio noise leftovers, but is that what SEIT is picking through? Do they target certain stars for a while hoping that a body in orbit happens to have been sending out signals?
Or is SETI listening to "everything" hoping to find anything?
Not to sound condescending, but when you hand your stuff over to a third party generally there is a contract signed between you and them, what you are looking for *should* be in that contract.
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This reads to me as "Government scientists managed by Government"
There are plenty of scientists who don't work for the Feds that aren't "muzzled".
I don't know about you but I use Google as a tool, when they change the tool (especially one that works so well) it is disorienting.
I've noticed that over the last couple of years Google has been trying to slide in several features for no apparent reason. I don't know why they felt it necessary to add fade-in on configuration options, background images on their main page or endlessly scrolling image results with a scripted zoom effect on mouseover but they seem compelled to tamper with the GUI for no good reason.
I am beginning to resent Google because of all this unwanted jiggery-pokery, not so much because of wild changes that happen with little to no warning but more because the changes they make seem trivial at best and annoying at worst.
Yup, though to be fair I am legally blind.
What the hell is a "mouse"?
Seriously though, the workstation/connection I have here at work I could move the mouse on Friday and the screen will update by Tuesday. To which I ask, what's the bloody point of it?
Just go to the Google homepage, wait five years for the fade in, click "Settings" -> "Search Settings"
Find the setting for "Google Instant" (hint, bottom of preferences list), select "Do not use Google Instant" and press Save.
Now if there was some easy way to disable the horrible, over-scripted image result page layout I'd be a happy camper!
For what I get out of XBL, $60 USD ain't worth it.
Especially when I can just log into Steam on my PC and play lots of fun games online for free.
I wonder which side will win...
Agreed, mind you the decision making powers at the time were too busy buying missiles with sand warheads... I love my country.
I maintain to this day that had we continued AvroCar and giant cannon development we'd rule this earth, with lasers, robots and polite letters of fury!
Well in this case after the freeze frame at the apex of the jump they just keep going (can a "yeeee haaaaaaaaw" be sustained for longer than a few minutes?? When does it become awkward or correct to stop?? So many questions!)
We Canadians had this problem licked ages ago with the hugely successful AvroCar!
Ok, so not so successful, BUT STILL!!
The key difference with someone like Tycho is that he has built up credibility. We may not see eye to eye on a lot of things but at least I can "trust" what he says to be his genuine perspective.
Sadly, game reviewing seems to be one of those wells that is all too easy to poison...
Video game reviewing is probably one of the least credible forms of "journalism" out there. Back in the day it was magazine editors that were getting rewards for pushing reviews in perhaps more positive directions than they needed to be. Then it was game reviewing websites. Now it's a swarm of goobers who post "user" reviews to sites.
I'm fairly confident in saying that video game reviews, for the most part, are useless (or perhaps to be taken for entertainment purposes only).
I think it would be pretty kick-ass to have some Saint materialize and lay on some whup-ass to would be thieves.
*gasp* THE BISHOP!
There was a dismissive comment recently modded down about being "easily amused" by the bleeps and bloops, well that may be so, but it sure adds flavor to the process.
I can imagine how various sorting operations work in my head but I never thought about what they might sound like, and that makes them just a little more interesting. :-)
It's not so much about being popular, it's about being completely ousted.
Once you are blackballed in elementary school it can take more than a decade to undo the damage.
Or you can be like many nerds (myself included) who after years of inflicted upon social isolation you just don't give a damn anymore and fit in just about anywhere.
Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Pen has possibilities...
You got wall warts from using a SheevaPlug, you better get some cream for that right away...
Gah, I grossed myself out... pleh!
I agree 100%
Definitely get into TDD and do some reading on "inversion of control" it really makes you think about how rigid your classes should or shouldn't be. I wish I had some good links handy on both subjects.
I got into both a few years ago at about the same time it was one of those "eureka" moments for me.
I actually look forward to writing the test cases first, it points out all the design flaws I overlooked on paper or in prototyping.
Need Ninja supplies? Why not stop off at Goemon's One Stop Ninja Shop for all your Ninja needs! ...
Hey ladies, tired of targeted advertising? C'mon down to The Burqa Boutique, we've got the latest fashions just time in summer, all in the new classic; black! ...
A new life awaits you in the Off-World colonies!
Fine by me, it's a dead avenue.
Y'know, I don't know about the rest of you, but for me the harder they try to get me to buy stupid shit the more I feel that I don't want to buy things advertised in mass media.
I see these billboards as a giant warning sign of what NOT to buy. If I fall into some assumed demographic and I don't already have the product I likely don't need it anyway.
Everyone on the 'net is either a dick or an overweight bald guy. Chatroulette just exposes this fact.
Ok, I don't know anything about this stuff but basically SETI is a big radio telescope array right? And we get data from all these stars using other radio telescopes right? So at some point we take the data of stuff we know (stars, whatever else) and take it out of the SETI picture right?
That leaves us with a lot of radio noise leftovers, but is that what SEIT is picking through? Do they target certain stars for a while hoping that a body in orbit happens to have been sending out signals?
Or is SETI listening to "everything" hoping to find anything?
I'd like to know!
Having dealt with a few offsite storage places I can tell you that they have SLAs that cover theft/fire/nuclear bombs/etc.
Not to sound condescending, but when you hand your stuff over to a third party generally there is a contract signed between you and them, what you are looking for *should* be in that contract.