There is a fourth solution. Google Fibre spreads across more of America (the rest of Kansas is next on the cards), and either takes over completely, or forces the others to play catch up. Kinda like what Gmail did for email.
Good to see paranoia reign supreme on Slashdot. Of course it must be that he's a paid shill, and not one of a hundred more reasonable and boring possibilities such as:
1: He genuinely thinks that Microsoft's phone is a safer bet in case Android gets in more trouble
2: He's a fan of Microsoft products or dislikes Google (yes, someone can still like a company, yet not work for them).
3: He said it ironically/trollingly to get a reaction, as he too dislikes the patent mess, and wants people to get fired up about it (to motivate them or something?)
4: He's somewhat ignorant about the whole (complicated) situation (as I suppose everyone is to a degree)
5: Any combination of the above
Isn't it more equivalent to "pay as you go" with a potential for saving money if you use the word processor rarely or as a one-off? Someone may just want to use the word processor (or whatever) for a month and then quit the subscription.
The difference is learning idiosyncrasies and pretty arbitrary knowledge due to the kludges and historical baggage of Linux (not saying any other OS is much better). An OS should mostly be transparent to the user, enabling him/her to get on with actually being productive.
Linux won't be around forever (at least not close to its current state), but math and science will.
I agree with much of your post, but saying it's marketing by Microsoft etc. is paranoid conspiracy theory territory I'm afraid. There are definitely good reasons to hate something like a giant metal clip taking half of the screen real-estate, and it's not impossible that someone could make a blog about that kind of thing.
It's not just for beauty's sake. When thing's look that flat, it becomes harder to distinguish one window from another, or the outline of a given window.
In the example below, everything looks washed out and bleached (like a broken monitor). The white drag bar section of the window matches the white background of the directory listing, which would make it less easy to quickly drag a window. Likewise the location or search box is also white, providing little contrast to the elements: http://winsource.com/2012/05/21/aero-glass-dropped-for-windows-8/
Contrast and bevels are always a good thing, and Aero, though not perfect, is a heck of a lot better. Personally, I think a light grey (or even mid-grey) background is a very under-used component of UI design. It almost reminds me of the loudness wars, where everyone is trying to get as bright/loud as possible at the expense of distortion/clipping (even the text in many websites is becoming whiter, soon we'll be at #f0f0f0 colour font on an #ffffff backdrop - it's ridiculous).
Apparently not, and I have heard it asked at least twice in various places. Apparently, the amount of heat that the sun alone provides would dwarf anything we would ever give out.
There are about 36 types of fusion being explored (of which "Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion" is just one), categorized roughly into 6 main types. Here's a list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Fusion_methods
'Unlimited' energy would be such an amazing thing (eclipsing even say lithium-air battery tech, 200" OLED screens, super conductors, or cheap-as-peanuts aerogel) by an order of magnitude or two. If a quarter of the money that went into the Defense budget went into fusion, we'd all be laughing by now.
I wish more people had that same kind of spirit about other things like super conductors, essentially 'unlimited' energy, better batteries, and super-strong or hyper-sound/heat insulating materials.
Hi, a bit offtopic I guess, but I think some years ago, I was marked as one of your 'foes'. I don't usually bother with the whole fan/foe/freak thing, but I'm just curious if there was particular reason.
Maybe they can improve, but to have that kind of bloatedness and overhead at any stage (even if it was somewhat exaggerated in the OP's post) is too much for me. I love the concept, but I'm sure others can do it better and more efficient.
Thank you. That's automatically put me off BitCoin in future, so I won't be following it anymore (and hence, save lots of time). I can't believe I haven't heard these disadvantages before, and that they don't get even the basics right.
So what's stopping us getting this quality (along with some sound) for real? I heard NASA didn't include a microphone, because the extra weight would be costly, but they're not considering the impact it would have on the public's imagination (and hence potential funding) for future projects.
Please consider promoting the 'opus' extension, even if you don't enforce it. In one way, I love your attitude of letting others decide, but it would be great to see an opus file, and think, "that's an opus file" and that REALLY helps advertise the name (it needs to stick in people's memory for both consumers and developers).
Also, maybe it'd be a shame to wrap it up in Ogg, as that's associated with a music format which doesn't quite match up to yours in specification (and it's good to differentiate the two by filetype I think in principle).
Have you considered making your own container, or combining it into the file somehow? MP3 is popular I think not just because it got there first, but everybody recognizes the extension. It would be lovely to have an ".ops", ".opus", extension or similar.
According to many people's definition, he IS 'Anonymous', because 'Anonymous' isn't a coordinated group of people, but people who usually work alone, (but have the same mentality/motivations as other 'members'). That's the whole point.
I've found Namecheap to be very good (I'm not the only one, that seems to the overall consensus on the web, on here, and on Reddit too). I don't know an amazing amount, but found it VERY easy to transfer from my previous registrar, and they'll probably help you anyway. Heck even I might help if you like.
Sorry to hear about the seminar - maybe an offline copy of your website would have been doable...
This point has been brought up before. 'Godaddy' should have known better since they're in the technology business sector. Their whole business revolves around the lifeblood of the internet. I think practically every other registrar wasn't involved with SOPA one bit.
More to the point though, Goddaddy is simply a less efficient company compared to many, and the world would be better off without them (no offense intended, since it'd be great to free up their time for more productive tasks, or simply free time for its own sake).
So let me get this straight. Norton are saying that the number of people reporting Norton as criminal (due to bloated and buggy virus-esque software presumably) has dropped from previous years?
If this is true, why are they advertising this negative attention instead of just quietly improving their software?
In that case, I have a million other ideas, all differing to some extent, and each with the same profound properties that a placebo provides. Each one has an inventive story and reason for why it works behind it (I haven't tested most of them admittedly, but I DO think they're all great). The government should allow these million other methods on the market too, and make me a millionaire.
See this is where the idea of a 'soul' comes into play, because no matter how intelligent robots get, they'll never be able to experience pain the way we do (or any other creature). And we need 'something' to experience that pain, call it a 'soul', 'spirit' or whatever.
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There is a fourth solution. Google Fibre spreads across more of America (the rest of Kansas is next on the cards), and either takes over completely, or forces the others to play catch up. Kinda like what Gmail did for email.
You can have tiny holes in a balloon without the balloon popping. You can tell they're there if you put it under water and watch the bubbles form.
Good to see paranoia reign supreme on Slashdot. Of course it must be that he's a paid shill, and not one of a hundred more reasonable and boring possibilities such as:
1: He genuinely thinks that Microsoft's phone is a safer bet in case Android gets in more trouble
2: He's a fan of Microsoft products or dislikes Google (yes, someone can still like a company, yet not work for them).
3: He said it ironically/trollingly to get a reaction, as he too dislikes the patent mess, and wants people to get fired up about it (to motivate them or something?)
4: He's somewhat ignorant about the whole (complicated) situation (as I suppose everyone is to a degree)
5: Any combination of the above
Isn't it more equivalent to "pay as you go" with a potential for saving money if you use the word processor rarely or as a one-off? Someone may just want to use the word processor (or whatever) for a month and then quit the subscription.
The difference is learning idiosyncrasies and pretty arbitrary knowledge due to the kludges and historical baggage of Linux (not saying any other OS is much better). An OS should mostly be transparent to the user, enabling him/her to get on with actually being productive.
Linux won't be around forever (at least not close to its current state), but math and science will.
I agree with much of your post, but saying it's marketing by Microsoft etc. is paranoid conspiracy theory territory I'm afraid. There are definitely good reasons to hate something like a giant metal clip taking half of the screen real-estate, and it's not impossible that someone could make a blog about that kind of thing.
It's not just for beauty's sake. When thing's look that flat, it becomes harder to distinguish one window from another, or the outline of a given window.
In the example below, everything looks washed out and bleached (like a broken monitor). The white drag bar section of the window matches the white background of the directory listing, which would make it less easy to quickly drag a window. Likewise the location or search box is also white, providing little contrast to the elements:
http://winsource.com/2012/05/21/aero-glass-dropped-for-windows-8/
Contrast and bevels are always a good thing, and Aero, though not perfect, is a heck of a lot better. Personally, I think a light grey (or even mid-grey) background is a very under-used component of UI design. It almost reminds me of the loudness wars, where everyone is trying to get as bright/loud as possible at the expense of distortion/clipping (even the text in many websites is becoming whiter, soon we'll be at #f0f0f0 colour font on an #ffffff backdrop - it's ridiculous).
Apparently not, and I have heard it asked at least twice in various places. Apparently, the amount of heat that the sun alone provides would dwarf anything we would ever give out.
That'd be great too. I don't imagine their defense budgets are so high, but I could be wrong.
There are about 36 types of fusion being explored (of which "Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion" is just one), categorized roughly into 6 main types. Here's a list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Fusion_methods
'Unlimited' energy would be such an amazing thing (eclipsing even say lithium-air battery tech, 200" OLED screens, super conductors, or cheap-as-peanuts aerogel) by an order of magnitude or two. If a quarter of the money that went into the Defense budget went into fusion, we'd all be laughing by now.
I wish more people had that same kind of spirit about other things like super conductors, essentially 'unlimited' energy, better batteries, and super-strong or hyper-sound/heat insulating materials.
Hi, a bit offtopic I guess, but I think some years ago, I was marked as one of your 'foes'. I don't usually bother with the whole fan/foe/freak thing, but I'm just curious if there was particular reason.
Maybe they can improve, but to have that kind of bloatedness and overhead at any stage (even if it was somewhat exaggerated in the OP's post) is too much for me. I love the concept, but I'm sure others can do it better and more efficient.
Thank you. That's automatically put me off BitCoin in future, so I won't be following it anymore (and hence, save lots of time). I can't believe I haven't heard these disadvantages before, and that they don't get even the basics right.
So what's stopping us getting this quality (along with some sound) for real? I heard NASA didn't include a microphone, because the extra weight would be costly, but they're not considering the impact it would have on the public's imagination (and hence potential funding) for future projects.
Please consider promoting the 'opus' extension, even if you don't enforce it. In one way, I love your attitude of letting others decide, but it would be great to see an opus file, and think, "that's an opus file" and that REALLY helps advertise the name (it needs to stick in people's memory for both consumers and developers).
Also, maybe it'd be a shame to wrap it up in Ogg, as that's associated with a music format which doesn't quite match up to yours in specification (and it's good to differentiate the two by filetype I think in principle).
Have you considered making your own container, or combining it into the file somehow? MP3 is popular I think not just because it got there first, but everybody recognizes the extension. It would be lovely to have an ".ops", ".opus", extension or similar.
He means he cant easily discriminate between the two, not that his ears distort things (or undistort them as the case may be).
According to many people's definition, he IS 'Anonymous', because 'Anonymous' isn't a coordinated group of people, but people who usually work alone, (but have the same mentality/motivations as other 'members'). That's the whole point.
I've found Namecheap to be very good (I'm not the only one, that seems to the overall consensus on the web, on here, and on Reddit too). I don't know an amazing amount, but found it VERY easy to transfer from my previous registrar, and they'll probably help you anyway. Heck even I might help if you like.
Sorry to hear about the seminar - maybe an offline copy of your website would have been doable...
This point has been brought up before. 'Godaddy' should have known better since they're in the technology business sector. Their whole business revolves around the lifeblood of the internet. I think practically every other registrar wasn't involved with SOPA one bit.
More to the point though, Goddaddy is simply a less efficient company compared to many, and the world would be better off without them (no offense intended, since it'd be great to free up their time for more productive tasks, or simply free time for its own sake).
So let me get this straight. Norton are saying that the number of people reporting Norton as criminal (due to bloated and buggy virus-esque software presumably) has dropped from previous years?
If this is true, why are they advertising this negative attention instead of just quietly improving their software?
In that case, I have a million other ideas, all differing to some extent, and each with the same profound properties that a placebo provides. Each one has an inventive story and reason for why it works behind it (I haven't tested most of them admittedly, but I DO think they're all great). The government should allow these million other methods on the market too, and make me a millionaire.
See this is where the idea of a 'soul' comes into play, because no matter how intelligent robots get, they'll never be able to experience pain the way we do (or any other creature). And we need 'something' to experience that pain, call it a 'soul', 'spirit' or whatever.
Even if they were slightly less safe, society could probably accept the MASSIVE advantages self-driving cars would have over manual.