Damnit. I accidentally modded this post Overrated when I was aiming for Funny, and the new system submits the moderation instantly. Since I don't see a way to undo or reverse it, I'm just replying to cancel all my moderation on this topic.
Relabelling the "Yes" and "No" buttons to the actual result of clicking it (e.g. "Install this software") might combat the reflex action and force people to actually read the message instead of just jumping to the Yes button.
Still, isn't it possible to use the or tags? For those that need the acronym's meaning, they can hover their cursor over it for a second. For those that know what it means, the flow of reading isn't interrupted.
“... if a burglar breaks into your house and puts his back out trying to lug away your safe, you're still liable.”
From my understanding, there are three standards of care that may apply to a person on your property. The first two apply to different sets that you have invited/allowed in (the first is to do business, the second is not), and are basically identical. The second is to someone you have not invited/allowed on your property: e.g. a burglar. The standard that extends to this group is more or less that you cannot set traps for them. (There is also the concept of an “attractive nuisance”, something hazardous that a person (kid) could come across and start playing with that is unprotected/locked/fenced/etc, which you can also be held liable for if the kid is injured.) So, no, if someone breaks into your house and hurts himself “lugging away your safe”, I don't think you'd be liable.
A more reasonable example I recall is a thief who broke into someone's garage while they were away on vacation. He then realized that there was no way out of the garage reachable from the ground, and survived by eating dog food until the owners came home. He sued for damages and won because the inescapable garage was in fact seen as a trap.
It's not that we feel so superior that we are shocked when someone “beats us”, as you imply, it's that there is such a large difference between two industrialized, connected nations in the same region of the world. Both the U.S. and Canada have similar quality backbones in place, so Canada in this case just serves as a benchmark to where we might be today.
Doesn't the choice to change processor basically give Apple and their users more options? If Apple release hardware that can run not only their own much loved OSX operating system, but also Windows, Linux and *BSD that it removes one of the major arguments about getting an Apple. Namely, "I can't run XXX piece of software, it doesn't support Apple".
What may be more important than the ability to dual-boot is Virtual PC, which would then be able to run at close-to-normal speed.
Actually, one of the few times I've watched TechTV, they had an explanation of why 900MHz phones can get better range. It's the same reason why if you hear music playing in another room, you usually hear the beat. The lower-frequency sound has an easier time making it through the walls. Likewise, 900MHz phones can have an easier time getting through walls than 2.4GHz or 5GHz.
With any open-source voting project, there must also be some way of verifying that the source was not tampered with between the source's release to the public and its actual usage. Having the source to the voting software is no good if it's not the source that is actually used.
[Why] do they think the average car bomber will be overcome with so much frustration when he's forced to use his keys that he'll be unable to attack the military base?
This interference is accidental, not intentional, and is really the fault of the manufacturers of the remotes, not the military.
No, the point is it's completely blatant copying of the apps' interfaces. I am sitting here looking at iTunes right next to the shot of LSongs. The pause/rewind/FF icons are about identical, the song display is only different in the font, the song position bar is totally identical, the toolbar and buttons are laid out the same... the eye button doesn't need a label, I can tell it's Browse because it's browse on iTunes. The only real differences are that it's ugly, the toolbar is on the bottom instead of the top, it says "Streams" instead of "Radio", and there's no LSongs Music Store (yet).
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Damnit. I accidentally modded this post Overrated when I was aiming for Funny, and the new system submits the moderation instantly. Since I don't see a way to undo or reverse it, I'm just replying to cancel all my moderation on this topic.
Relabelling the "Yes" and "No" buttons to the actual result of clicking it (e.g. "Install this software") might combat the reflex action and force people to actually read the message instead of just jumping to the Yes button.
Still, isn't it possible to use the or tags? For those that need the acronym's meaning, they can hover their cursor over it for a second. For those that know what it means, the flow of reading isn't interrupted.
From my understanding, there are three standards of care that may apply to a person on your property. The first two apply to different sets that you have invited/allowed in (the first is to do business, the second is not), and are basically identical. The second is to someone you have not invited/allowed on your property: e.g. a burglar. The standard that extends to this group is more or less that you cannot set traps for them. (There is also the concept of an “attractive nuisance”, something hazardous that a person (kid) could come across and start playing with that is unprotected/locked/fenced/etc, which you can also be held liable for if the kid is injured.) So, no, if someone breaks into your house and hurts himself “lugging away your safe”, I don't think you'd be liable.
A more reasonable example I recall is a thief who broke into someone's garage while they were away on vacation. He then realized that there was no way out of the garage reachable from the ground, and survived by eating dog food until the owners came home. He sued for damages and won because the inescapable garage was in fact seen as a trap.
Of course, IANAL.
It's not that we feel so superior that we are shocked when someone “beats us”, as you imply, it's that there is such a large difference between two industrialized, connected nations in the same region of the world. Both the U.S. and Canada have similar quality backbones in place, so Canada in this case just serves as a benchmark to where we might be today.
Actually, one of the few times I've watched TechTV, they had an explanation of why 900MHz phones can get better range. It's the same reason why if you hear music playing in another room, you usually hear the beat. The lower-frequency sound has an easier time making it through the walls. Likewise, 900MHz phones can have an easier time getting through walls than 2.4GHz or 5GHz.
With any open-source voting project, there must also be some way of verifying that the source was not tampered with between the source's release to the public and its actual usage. Having the source to the voting software is no good if it's not the source that is actually used.
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No, the point is it's completely blatant copying of the apps' interfaces. I am sitting here looking at iTunes right next to the shot of LSongs. The pause/rewind/FF icons are about identical, the song display is only different in the font, the song position bar is totally identical, the toolbar and buttons are laid out the same... the eye button doesn't need a label, I can tell it's Browse because it's browse on iTunes. The only real differences are that it's ugly, the toolbar is on the bottom instead of the top, it says "Streams" instead of "Radio", and there's no LSongs Music Store (yet).