Did you also drive your son to school in a grilled cheese sandwich? and wear a herd of antelope on your head as a hat? It sounds like you had a (ignorant) axe to grind and your son was the collateral damage.
You can use The Proxomitron to block ads in Chrome. It does the ad-blocking at the proxy level, where it should go, rather than at the plugin level. It works with any browser.
Bjorn Lomberg (author, "the skeptical environmentalist") made this argument:
We have $1 today. We can spend it now to clean up the environment. Or we can invest it now, watch it turn into $50 in a century, and of that use $5 to clean up the environment at that time. It'll be more expensive, naturally, but he thinks that economies grow faster than do environmental burdens.
Yes it is the case. As far as I can tell, the search has two modes: start-menu-search and file-search. When you start typing \\ or c:\ then it switches into file-search, but not otherwise.
There was a straightforward question, "in which way is the Vista UI better than the XP UI?" I gave a straightforward answer, "One of the ways it's better is the following..."
(1) I didn't say that this was the only way, which your sarky question assumed.
(2) The topic at hand is whether it's worth paying money to LOSE that functionality.
(1) press ctrl+esc to bring up start menu (2) press N (first letter of "notepad" (3) press O (4) press Enter (autocompletion)
Five keystrokes, about 500ms, and way faster than navigating to it with the mouse. And similarly for launching most of the apps I use.
To navigate to a network share that I used recently (1) ctrl+esc (2) \ (first character of "\\herbert") (3) \ (4) h (5) down cursor key into the auto-completion list (6) Enter
7 keystrokes, about 800ms.
What functionality is easier to find? -- any installed application! e.g. I know that Windows Backup is installed somewhere, but I don't know where, and I can't remember if it's called "Windows Backup" or just "Backup" or "System Backup".
(1) ctrl+esc (2) b (3) a (this is enough for the autocomplete list to populate) (4) enter (to launch it)
What else is easier? Well, I judge what time to start the commute home by looking at traffic maps. On XP it involved clicking on my web-browser launch icon, clicking on the favourites menu, navigating to the bookmark that has the stuff, clicking on it, waiting 15 seconds for the page to load.
On Vista, a snippet of that webpage is sitting on my desktop in the form of a Vista Gadget. Total time required to judge traffic conditions: 300ms, the time it takes me to look at that corner of the screen and digest it.
I think your comparisons miss the point. Hitler didn't come to power in a revolution that set out to overturn the old order, like Cambodia or Mao's Great Leap Forward. He didn't come to power in a genocidal massacre like Darfur, or a genocidal land-grab like Bosnia.
No, he came to power through normal democratic platforms on normal democratic grounds by claiming that the alternative politicans were ineffective, and the existing institutions (like the weimer government) weren't protecting the german people.
Rassenhygiene was a concept that long predated the nazis (1895); eugenics and racial hygiene were widely accepted by intellectuals and polite society throughout the West.
That's the historical perspective behind "crime and race hygiene". It was a misguided but reasonable-sounding concept introduced by reasonable-sounding people, ostensibly to protect the society in that country. I think there are very strong parallels between it and DHS/guantanamo. I don't think it's slide into the holocaust was inevitable, and I don't think DHS/guantanamo will slide that way either.
> "The whole point of a search engine like Google's is to > connect a user to some other website as quickly as possible."
Really? I thought the whole point of Google's search engine is to (1) show advertising to users, (2) encourage users to click on sponsored links, (3) profile users individually and collectively so as to better sell advertising.
The fact that it quickly takes us to other websites, sometimes even the ones we want, is a way of *fulfilling* points 1-3. But it isn't the point itself.
You want an alternative that helps the environment but compromises nothing at all?
And also, I suppose, to still be able to eat whatever you want without losing weight?
And also, I suppose, to buy all the gadgets you want without having to face credit card bills afterwards?
I think the best way forwards would be for society to lose the attitude it's gained in the past fifty years that we can get what we want without paying the cost.
I hate all the talk of "your write code which can run on the server, or the client, it doesn't matter".
We should be striving to make apps where the server-side code is clearly delineated, tiny, and carefully audited. The client can communicate it through AJAX. The client-side code doesn't have to be audited anywhere near as carefully. The only guarantee you can make is that if you have https, and no google analytics or ads, then your page guarantees not to broadcast sensitive data to places it could be intercepted.
And we should be carefully and explicitly aware of every single clientserver communication that's taking place, and audit it for what happens when communication fails or a message is lost or intercepted.
Everything that blurs these boundaries is a mistake. The ideal of MVC is fine, but the way it's traditionally been divied up for webserver/client apps is a mistake. And as for writing a single piece of code which controls both client and server? or which can run on either of them without effort? AWFUL.
> A 63" TV... Being able to pause the movie to > go to the bathroom doesn't hurt either.
For some reason, the bigger the TV, the prouder people are about their incontinence. I have a 110" screen from my project but I can hold it in for three hours...
Another possibility is that metering will let the company have complete transparency in its pricing: it will be able to charge to customers in proportion to how much their use actually costs the company. Transparency always leads to more efficient markets, which will enable companies to drive down prices.
> McAfee, which took about an hour to remove fully
Really?
I don't believe it. I've never seen an anti-virus product that could be removed fully. They all seem to leave their tendrils somewhere in your system. I always reformat in this situation.
As always, the summary website is wrong. If you go to shapeways.com they explain:
How is your pricing calculated?
Our pricing is based upon the actual amount of material used in your model. So the actual volume of your finished object not the volume of the bounding box. If you click on the order tab next to any model the system will calculate the price for you. All prices includes shipping and handling.
Millions and millions of people travel with their laptops to all countries in the world. Just about no one has problems. Keep things in perspective.
Yes, you should be concerned about laptop searches and seizures as a general principle of public conduct. No, you shouldn't be at all concerned about your laptop on your trip.
Indeed, the wikipedia article on "brownian ratchets" explains their use in non-equilibrium situations:
If, on the other hand, T2 is smaller than T1, the ratchet can indeed ratchet forward. In this case, though, energy is extracted from the temperature gradient in agreement with the second law.
The Feynman ratchet model led to the similar concept of Brownian motors, nanomachines which can extract useful work not from thermal noise but from chemical potentials and other microscopic nonequilibrium sources, in compliance with the laws of thermodynamics.
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What possessed you to replace Times with Verdana?
Did you also drive your son to school in a grilled cheese sandwich? and wear a herd of antelope on your head as a hat? It sounds like you had a (ignorant) axe to grind and your son was the collateral damage.
You can use The Proxomitron to block ads in Chrome.
It does the ad-blocking at the proxy level, where it should go, rather than at the plugin level.
It works with any browser.
Install The Proxomitron.
It does ad-blocking where it's supposed to go, at the proxy level.
That lets you browse ad-free on any browser you choose.
Bjorn Lomberg (author, "the skeptical environmentalist") made this argument:
We have $1 today. We can spend it now to clean up the environment. Or we can invest it now, watch it turn into $50 in a century, and of that use $5 to clean up the environment at that time. It'll be more expensive, naturally, but he thinks that economies grow faster than do environmental burdens.
My instinct is that he's flat out wrong.
Yes it is the case. As far as I can tell, the search has two modes: start-menu-search and file-search. When you start typing \\ or c:\ then it switches into file-search, but not otherwise.
There was a straightforward question, "in which way is the Vista UI better than the XP UI?" I gave a straightforward answer, "One of the ways it's better is the following..."
(1) I didn't say that this was the only way, which your sarky question assumed.
(2) The topic at hand is whether it's worth paying money to LOSE that functionality.
Launching applications is easier and faster:
(1) press ctrl+esc to bring up start menu
(2) press N (first letter of "notepad"
(3) press O
(4) press Enter (autocompletion)
Five keystrokes, about 500ms, and way faster than navigating to it with the mouse. And similarly for launching most of the apps I use.
To navigate to a network share that I used recently
(1) ctrl+esc
(2) \ (first character of "\\herbert")
(3) \
(4) h
(5) down cursor key into the auto-completion list
(6) Enter
7 keystrokes, about 800ms.
What functionality is easier to find? -- any installed application! e.g. I know that Windows Backup is installed somewhere, but I don't know where, and I can't remember if it's called "Windows Backup" or just "Backup" or "System Backup".
(1) ctrl+esc
(2) b
(3) a (this is enough for the autocomplete list to populate)
(4) enter (to launch it)
What else is easier? Well, I judge what time to start the commute home by looking at traffic maps. On XP it involved clicking on my web-browser launch icon, clicking on the favourites menu, navigating to the bookmark that has the stuff, clicking on it, waiting 15 seconds for the page to load.
On Vista, a snippet of that webpage is sitting on my desktop in the form of a Vista Gadget. Total time required to judge traffic conditions: 300ms, the time it takes me to look at that corner of the screen and digest it.
In Australia several years ago there was a major government advertising campaign with the slogan "If you drink and drive, you're a bloody idiot."
Your proposal "You can you be so stupid?" sounds okay bit a bit too mild...
I think your comparisons miss the point. Hitler didn't come to power in a revolution that set out to overturn the old order, like Cambodia or Mao's Great Leap Forward. He didn't come to power in a genocidal massacre like Darfur, or a genocidal land-grab like Bosnia.
No, he came to power through normal democratic platforms on normal democratic grounds by claiming that the alternative politicans were ineffective, and the existing institutions (like the weimer government) weren't protecting the german people.
Rassenhygiene was a concept that long predated the nazis (1895); eugenics and racial hygiene were widely accepted by intellectuals and polite society throughout the West.
That's the historical perspective behind "crime and race hygiene". It was a misguided but reasonable-sounding concept introduced by reasonable-sounding people, ostensibly to protect the society in that country. I think there are very strong parallels between it and DHS/guantanamo. I don't think it's slide into the holocaust was inevitable, and I don't think DHS/guantanamo will slide that way either.
> "The whole point of a search engine like Google's is to
> connect a user to some other website as quickly as possible."
Really? I thought the whole point of Google's search engine is to (1) show advertising to users, (2) encourage users to click on sponsored links, (3) profile users individually and collectively so as to better sell advertising.
The fact that it quickly takes us to other websites, sometimes even the ones we want, is a way of *fulfilling* points 1-3. But it isn't the point itself.
"Institute for Race Hygiene and Crime".
It was sort of cross between the DHS and the guantanamo "Combatant Status Review Tribunal".
(!happy) !=> suicidal_killer
I had trouble reading this at first. Then I realized it's just boolean logic. "X => Y" is shorthand for "Y \/ !X". Expanding out your sentence we get
Happy /\ !Suicidal_killer
Good!
You want an alternative that helps the environment but compromises nothing at all?
And also, I suppose, to still be able to eat whatever you want without losing weight?
And also, I suppose, to buy all the gadgets you want without having to face credit card bills afterwards?
I think the best way forwards would be for society to lose the attitude it's gained in the past fifty years that we can get what we want without paying the cost.
I hate all the talk of "your write code which can run on the server, or the client, it doesn't matter".
We should be striving to make apps where the server-side code is clearly delineated, tiny, and carefully audited. The client can communicate it through AJAX. The client-side code doesn't have to be audited anywhere near as carefully. The only guarantee you can make is that if you have https, and no google analytics or ads, then your page guarantees not to broadcast sensitive data to places it could be intercepted.
And we should be carefully and explicitly aware of every single clientserver communication that's taking place, and audit it for what happens when communication fails or a message is lost or intercepted.
Everything that blurs these boundaries is a mistake. The ideal of MVC is fine, but the way it's traditionally been divied up for webserver/client apps is a mistake. And as for writing a single piece of code which controls both client and server? or which can run on either of them without effort? AWFUL.
> A 63" TV... Being able to pause the movie to
> go to the bathroom doesn't hurt either.
For some reason, the bigger the TV, the prouder people are about their incontinence. I have a 110" screen from my project but I can hold it in for three hours...
Along the RIAA lines that if you have bittorrent on your computer then you're likely doing illegal file-sharing...
That's one possibility.
Another possibility is that metering will let the company have complete transparency in its pricing: it will be able to charge to customers in proportion to how much their use actually costs the company. Transparency always leads to more efficient markets, which will enable companies to drive down prices.
> McAfee, which took about an hour to remove fully
Really?
I don't believe it. I've never seen an anti-virus product that could be removed fully. They all seem to leave their tendrils somewhere in your system. I always reformat in this situation.
> "...its not all that bad of a metric once you
> account for comments and blank lines."
A metric for what?
And in this metric, does commented code scores higher or lower than uncommented code?
Do you mean that each individual American should vote for who best represents their own individual interests?
Or that each American should vote for who best represents the interests of their country?
> If you were born in 1973 and JFK was shot in 1961,
> were you alive when he was shot?
Insufficient data... am I still alive now?!
As always, the summary website is wrong. If you go to shapeways.com they explain:
How is your pricing calculated?
Our pricing is based upon the actual amount of material used in your model. So the actual volume of your finished object not the volume of the bounding box. If you click on the order tab next to any model the system will calculate the price for you. All prices includes shipping and handling.
Millions and millions of people travel with their laptops to all countries in the world. Just about no one has problems. Keep things in perspective.
Yes, you should be concerned about laptop searches and seizures as a general principle of public conduct. No, you shouldn't be at all concerned about your laptop on your trip.
Indeed, the wikipedia article on "brownian ratchets" explains their use in non-equilibrium situations:
If, on the other hand, T2 is smaller than T1, the ratchet can indeed ratchet forward. In this case, though, energy is extracted from the temperature gradient in agreement with the second law.
The Feynman ratchet model led to the similar concept of Brownian motors, nanomachines which can extract useful work not from thermal noise but from chemical potentials and other microscopic nonequilibrium sources, in compliance with the laws of thermodynamics.
Maxwell's demon showed the impossibility of creating a thermal disequilibrium without work.
The article summary explains that they're leveraging an existing thermal disequilibrium to do work.
I think the two are completely unrelated?