Errrch...say what?
"Apple is very good at refining the little details that ultimately make the end user experience much better"
in many cases I would agree with you, but the POS they call iTunes, that I am forced to use with my iPod just doesn't cut it. It is that software and that software alone that will prevent me from ever buying another iPod or iPhone.
I could live with iTunes if it didn't constantly bring itself to a halt on my dual-core 8GB machine. Why should I have to be locked out of browsing the iTunes store while you freaking calculate my Genious results?
- munky
Didnt some of the American ones have hardware that changed?
Slightly but differed to the original spec. Then someone finds a buffer overflow etc.. Its a minefield but then again finance companies manage to have secure machines. You just have trusted people using them. As a pc support person I couldnt touch the two pcs that made millions of pounds in transfers it was the external company that supported them.
Also:
If you cant trust one person - have technical representatives at each pollling station from each party.
Or get two diff machines from diff companies and get people to hit two buttons on two machines.
Or have a paper backup.
Or all of the above.
What's with all the ridiculous units of measurement? Can someone give me it in something people *actually use*, like c-fortnights per orbit of Pluto around the Sun?
Are what we need.
We can monitor the children in the back and auto-prod them possibly - see how they like it, talk to our pals, ogle at babes with an adjustable camera We can also then think we are all Top Gun pilots and the Government can pay. It would prob cost less than a bailout to a few banks or bankers bonuses.
Yeah thats called the police in the uk. If you ask the 'bobbies on the beat' directions they will give them to you and give you a friendly pat on the back and on your way.
'Demotix is a citizen-journalism website and photo agency. It takes user-generated content (UGC) and photographs from freelance journalists and amateurs, and markets them to the mainstream media.
Demotix was founded with two principles at its heart - the freedom of speech and the freedom to know. Its objective is nothing if not ambitious - to rescue journalism and promote free expression by connecting independent journalists with the traditional media.
Demotix now has over 5000 members, in 110 countries around the world from Afghanistan to Zambia. '
It is a halfway house between the blogosphere and traditional media.
That's the difference between a study and an uneducated guess.
Sure, sometimes the study simply confirms what everyone knows. Still, it's confirmation. And everyone "knew" once that the earth is flat, women have no souls, and above the clouds you'll find heaven. The important questions were how many angels can dance on the top of a pin or whether or not heathens qualify as human beings.
I, for one, am glad that we've moved beyond that and actually investigate the things that "everyone knows". Be they as important as gravity, or as mundane as womens' buttocks.
There's a page that lists famous Boy Scouts and Eagle Scouts.
I always add, with CITATIONS FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES and other sources,
Charles Manson
and
Dennis Rader ("BTK Serial Killer)
and the terrorist group known as the BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA promptly removes it.
This sounds like a mission for slashdot. Surely if enough people change it they will give up. I dont understand how one person seems to get the power to change it to what they want and it can never change. It seems to be the first person/few people to be interested in a topic wins on wikipedia.
I might pop over to the scouts page:) Linky
Although I cant see any famous scouts on the page.
Maybe they will but I dont see 10gig ones imminently for the masses let alone people buying them (in the uk at least) and wireless can't do anywhere near that either.
Its quite a harsh world with these capitalistic extreme swings. Most people need to do whatever it takes to keep their job. This means sucking up etc..
Also Take your uni point - some of the people with the best degrees at my uni out and out cheated. We actually took one class where people copied the comments in a computer vision class. Some people just banded together and didnt see it as cheating.
Its the real world unfortunately - until you have your own company that does well, you just can't fix that bug because you want to - unless you lie and cheat that is;)
I also agree about yout points regarding people not knowing what they are doing. The internet does out a lot of this.. Isn't an expert who knows 1 level more than you about something.
My grocery store changes layout significantly perhaps every year or two. That's not exactly "all the damn time"...
For old people with memory loss, it is.
Decent customer service costs money. Given the choice, people generally vote (with their money) for cheaper food over better serviced food. Put another way: Would you rather pay $9 for a bottle of wine in the bag you carry to your car, or $13 for the same bottle of wine carried to your car by a checker?
I find it implausible that having a few people around to give directions would be as expensive as having baggers haul everybody's food to their car for them (which, by the way, Publix manages to do without being all that much more expensive anyway), especially if they had other tasks to perform at the same time (such as stocking shelves or sweeping the floor). Home Depot can do it (sort of); why not grocery stores?
I thought you said badgers - now that would be interesting.
When I learnt Cobol we had to write out the code onto coding sheets for someone else to type it in.
You had to get your characters in the right place in the 80 columns otherwise it wouldnt compile for the next day argggggggh.
Nope! Go get a BlackBerry Storm. Touch screen device that is improved via mechanism to detect difference between touching a widget and pushing a widget. I used to have one of those other touch screen phones, and navigation was a complete pain in the ass. My new phone with the clicky screen is much better, and it still uses multi-touch for on-screen text selection purposes. Interface improved, patent improved, life goes on.
You know, it's interesting. I have an iPod Touch and find its interface to be vastly superior to the Storm, which I have borrowed a few times from friends and thus had an opportunity to try out. However, I asked someone who was obviously not familiar with touch screens to type in their address on my iPod Touch the other day, and they had a very difficult time working out how to use the thing. They kept trying to push down on the "keys" and were frustrated when it wouldn't click. The idea that they just had to tap was apparently very difficult to comprehend.
On the other hand, to me (having used touch screen technology in general, and the iPod Touch / iPhone interface specifically), the "clicking" that the Storm implements seems forced and hokey. I thought it missed the point of the, "But there are no buttons!" complaint, since one still can't type without looking at the screen (i.e., one can't feel their way around the keyboard). I had not previously considered that it might be a more intuitive interface for someone who had never encountered touch screen technology before.
I have an ipod Touch,Storm and an HTC tytn 2. The apple stuff works wonderfully for the two finger zooming on the web browsing and photos, but the storm is nice when you want to enter something as you can hover over it and click - it is better as a blackberry email device(on a touch screen). The Storm is not fast but I get a lot of incorrect presses on the IPOD.
The tytn2 works well because it has a keyboard when you get bored of touch;) It makes it a fair bit heavier.
I think the storm is the best overall for portable email but I saw how it was constructed on hackaday.
Hackaday Blackberry and that had me worried as to longevity.
"Oh, and to the posters that suggested he use the defence "I forgot it", the police arrested the guy while he was halfway through typing the key in. It's kind of hard to convincingly say you didn't know it at that point..."
I expect the police to say something like that. Now stop and think of how probable that actually is.
Half the time you have to type in your key to realise you have forgotten it. Thats when I know I have forgotten it.
I agree about the police he was just typing something on his keyboard when we broke the door down - so are most of us right now:) terrorists all of us. I think slashdot should rule the world - o maybe not.
Slashdot Mirror
Errrch...say what? "Apple is very good at refining the little details that ultimately make the end user experience much better" in many cases I would agree with you, but the POS they call iTunes, that I am forced to use with my iPod just doesn't cut it. It is that software and that software alone that will prevent me from ever buying another iPod or iPhone. I could live with iTunes if it didn't constantly bring itself to a halt on my dual-core 8GB machine. Why should I have to be locked out of browsing the iTunes store while you freaking calculate my Genious results? - munky
You could turn off genius :)
Didnt some of the American ones have hardware that changed? Slightly but differed to the original spec. Then someone finds a buffer overflow etc.. Its a minefield but then again finance companies manage to have secure machines. You just have trusted people using them. As a pc support person I couldnt touch the two pcs that made millions of pounds in transfers it was the external company that supported them.
Also:
If you cant trust one person - have technical representatives at each pollling station from each party.
Or get two diff machines from diff companies and get people to hit two buttons on two machines.
Or have a paper backup.
Or all of the above.
What's with all the ridiculous units of measurement? Can someone give me it in something people *actually use*, like c-fortnights per orbit of Pluto around the Sun?
I think we need a car analogy.
Are what we need. We can monitor the children in the back and auto-prod them possibly - see how they like it, talk to our pals, ogle at babes with an adjustable camera We can also then think we are all Top Gun pilots and the Government can pay. It would prob cost less than a bailout to a few banks or bankers bonuses.
Yeah thats called the police in the uk. If you ask the 'bobbies on the beat' directions they will give them to you and give you a friendly pat on the back and on your way.
No photographer worth their memory card uses a smartphone camera for anything more important than taking a shot of where they parked their car.
Thats a great idea. If I could just remember that I was making a cup of tea or why I went up stairs my life would be complete.
Oh, then just pay for it with a Visa card.
and for those none the wiser - Visa claims teen spent $23,148,855,308,184,500.00 on prepaid credit card. Boing Boing
From the site
It is a halfway house between the blogosphere and traditional media.
That's the difference between a study and an uneducated guess.
Sure, sometimes the study simply confirms what everyone knows. Still, it's confirmation. And everyone "knew" once that the earth is flat, women have no souls, and above the clouds you'll find heaven. The important questions were how many angels can dance on the top of a pin or whether or not heathens qualify as human beings.
I, for one, am glad that we've moved beyond that and actually investigate the things that "everyone knows". Be they as important as gravity, or as mundane as womens' buttocks.
mundane........ sheeesh only on slashdot
I concur that its hard to get an edit and frustrating but I still like to read wikipedia - I just wouldnt use it for a paper on something.
There's a page that lists famous Boy Scouts and Eagle Scouts. I always add, with CITATIONS FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES and other sources, Charles Manson and Dennis Rader ("BTK Serial Killer) and the terrorist group known as the BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA promptly removes it.
This sounds like a mission for slashdot. Surely if enough people change it they will give up. I dont understand how one person seems to get the power to change it to what they want and it can never change. It seems to be the first person/few people to be interested in a topic wins on wikipedia. I might pop over to the scouts page :) Linky
Although I cant see any famous scouts on the page.
I read that as unicorn - it made me smile.
Maybe they will but I dont see 10gig ones imminently for the masses let alone people buying them (in the uk at least) and wireless can't do anywhere near that either.
If you saw a buffalo in a suit and shaven though, would you still eat it?
Maybe I do I dont know what an M20 is:) Now linux router 10gbps hmmmm I must go and google m20 - xcuse me.
yeah i have the 20 and I must reach 4 on the odd occasion(once) but prob back to NTL so its not that wonderful.
that can handle that as well :)
o and the rest of the bottlenecks sorted on the internet
also no *aa people so I can dload stuff for free..
Its quite a harsh world with these capitalistic extreme swings. Most people need to do whatever it takes to keep their job. This means sucking up etc.. Also Take your uni point - some of the people with the best degrees at my uni out and out cheated. We actually took one class where people copied the comments in a computer vision class. Some people just banded together and didnt see it as cheating. Its the real world unfortunately - until you have your own company that does well, you just can't fix that bug because you want to - unless you lie and cheat that is ;)
I also agree about yout points regarding people not knowing what they are doing. The internet does out a lot of this.. Isn't an expert who knows 1 level more than you about something.
For old people with memory loss, it is.
I find it implausible that having a few people around to give directions would be as expensive as having baggers haul everybody's food to their car for them (which, by the way, Publix manages to do without being all that much more expensive anyway), especially if they had other tasks to perform at the same time (such as stocking shelves or sweeping the floor). Home Depot can do it (sort of); why not grocery stores?
I thought you said badgers - now that would be interesting.
When I learnt Cobol we had to write out the code onto coding sheets for someone else to type it in. You had to get your characters in the right place in the 80 columns otherwise it wouldnt compile for the next day argggggggh.
I think it would just be a minor version change. So K-9.1
more like K(n)
You know, it's interesting. I have an iPod Touch and find its interface to be vastly superior to the Storm, which I have borrowed a few times from friends and thus had an opportunity to try out. However, I asked someone who was obviously not familiar with touch screens to type in their address on my iPod Touch the other day, and they had a very difficult time working out how to use the thing. They kept trying to push down on the "keys" and were frustrated when it wouldn't click. The idea that they just had to tap was apparently very difficult to comprehend.
On the other hand, to me (having used touch screen technology in general, and the iPod Touch / iPhone interface specifically), the "clicking" that the Storm implements seems forced and hokey. I thought it missed the point of the, "But there are no buttons!" complaint, since one still can't type without looking at the screen (i.e., one can't feel their way around the keyboard). I had not previously considered that it might be a more intuitive interface for someone who had never encountered touch screen technology before.
I have an ipod Touch,Storm and an HTC tytn 2. The apple stuff works wonderfully for the two finger zooming on the web browsing and photos, but the storm is nice when you want to enter something as you can hover over it and click - it is better as a blackberry email device(on a touch screen). The Storm is not fast but I get a lot of incorrect presses on the IPOD. ;) It makes it a fair bit heavier.
I think the storm is the best overall for portable email but I saw how it was constructed on hackaday.
Hackaday Blackberry and that had me worried as to longevity.
The tytn2 works well because it has a keyboard when you get bored of touch
I second this and you can use Octave http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ which is nicely compatible with Matlab. Which help with matrices as well.
"Oh, and to the posters that suggested he use the defence "I forgot it", the police arrested the guy while he was halfway through typing the key in. It's kind of hard to convincingly say you didn't know it at that point..." I expect the police to say something like that. Now stop and think of how probable that actually is.
Half the time you have to type in your key to realise you have forgotten it. Thats when I know I have forgotten it. I agree about the police he was just typing something on his keyboard when we broke the door down - so are most of us right now :) terrorists all of us. I think slashdot should rule the world - o maybe not.
For example, a dead-man's switch that destroys all traces of keys if the owner does not log-in for a pre-arranged number of days.
Kinda doesnt matter if you are dead ;)