This wasn't being obtuse. This was being very direct and to the point, using a minimal number of words.
How about this for more clarity (or at least my own opinion):
Any technology that is seen as a "replacement" for an older technology should not throw away useful and important features of that previous technology simply "because" it is an advance (or change) in technology.
Depends on whether the features it introduces are more useful than the features left out, or the compromises made (needing battery[2])
Better put, magazines shouldn't need batteries. Direct, to the point, and clearly on-topic unlike the reply.
To use a car analogy[1], cars replaced horses, but required petrol (you call it gas) So we should not use cars because they require petrol, whereas the thing they were replacing did not?
[1] something I've always yearned to do.
[2] you could argue that since battery is the collective noun for a group of cells...:)
Can't remember the last time I either took a bath (showers, yes, but I'd really like to see you take a shower whilst reading a magazine (actually, that would probably not be so, I don't want to actually see you doing that:))) or went camping.
Thinking a bit more about this there is a feature that makes newspapers and magazines so bathroom friendly that will be hard to recreate on a reader.
Namely, parallel accessibility. When I sit on my thrown I don't go there to read a specific article. I browse the magazine for something that look intriguing. It's hard to manage that sort of page flipping and scanning on a reader. But it's essential to the use mode.
Page flipping, yeah. (continued on page 65)
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I really like flipping pages (continued on page 74)
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When I'm trying to read one article. Also, imagine a medium that had hyperlinks to take you to a subject related to that article?
I think a lot of us are just waiting for ebooks to be a little bit better.
That's going to be Catch-22, in that publishers and manufacturers are going to want a market first. I'm annoyed by the number of books that you can't get in electronic form, given that most dead tree books are already stored on word processors, etc.
Also, the DRM aspect of most eReaders and ebooks is a bit annoying. While it's cool that I can buy books instantly off amazon and have subscriptions delivered directly to my Kindle. It is also frustrating that I cannot loan electronic books out to friends or sell them to a used book store. And given this lack of feature, why are most ebooks still 90% of the price of the paperbacks? (I know why, it's a rhetorical question)
DRM and copyright on ebooks is very annoying. One or the other, please! Either make the DRM so when I give a book away, I can no longer view it, and adjust the copyright to suit that, or make the cost a lot lower, to reflect zero cost of printing, distributing, etc.
Have you used one recently? No scrolling, nothing more complicated than pushing a button for page turning. Dead tree magazines require page turning as well. And my magazine doesn't receive phone calls, do appointments, etc. Batteries, well, if you can remember to plug it in when you go to bed, that one's sorted.
Reminds me of when QA wanted a corrupt word file to test something. "Fine", I said, opened a word doc with hexeditor, made some random changes, saved it. Opened it with Word, instant BSOD. "A little less corrupt" said QA.
When my country launches a war of aggression with the intent of destroying a neighbor and loses said war then I'll worry about being kicked out of my home.
There's nothing wrong with empathy for the victims. There's everything wrong with blaming Israel for their predicament. If Hamas obeyed the laws of war and fought in the open under uniform I suspect that civilian casualties would be greatly reduced.
If Hamas did that they'd get wiped out in the first week. And they would have to know that, so they fight in a way that gives them a chance.
One strong-hold of IE has and probably always will be the corporate desktop, simply because it can be configured on the AD from factory install. That means basically that admins can lock it down (No ActiveX,
I *wish* our corporate powers that be would make it "No activeX" - it'd stop other areas of the corp from foisting internal ActiveX apps on us.
You mean, don't impose micromanagement at the legislative level?
Prosecuting teens as adults? If you're going to give them the responsibilities of adults, you should give them the rights. Else no deal.
No, it won't. If you're performing a crime of passion, you will likely strike at full force. Human flesh isn't very strong; even a butter knife will do serious damage, simply because it is a thin object.
If a dull butter knife is sufficient for a killing blow equal to sharper and larger knives, why do people planning on using knives use larger and sharper ones?
Automatic coffee machines produce quite bad coffee[1]. If you're prepared to do a bit of work getting grind/dose/tamp set up, you'll get a much better cup. Also, eschew any espresso maker that says it uses a thermoblock. Rancilio Silvia is a good machine.
[1] they get temperature, shot size, dose grind and tamp wrong. And they are extremely hard to clean.
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eWMDs? Won't someone please think of the scriptkiddies!
Yeah this is getting ridiculous. We need to go back to the ROOT reason why child pornography is illegal: - to protect real children/teens from being raped by adults
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This wasn't being obtuse. This was being very direct and to the point, using a minimal number of words.
How about this for more clarity (or at least my own opinion):
Any technology that is seen as a "replacement" for an older technology should not throw away useful and important features of that previous technology simply "because" it is an advance (or change) in technology.
Depends on whether the features it introduces are more useful than the features left out, or the compromises made (needing battery[2])
Better put, magazines shouldn't need batteries. Direct, to the point, and clearly on-topic unlike the reply.
To use a car analogy[1], cars replaced horses, but required petrol (you call it gas) So we should not use cars because they require petrol, whereas the thing they were replacing did not?
... :)
[1] something I've always yearned to do.
[2] you could argue that since battery is the collective noun for a group of cells
Can't remember the last time I either took a bath (showers, yes, but I'd really like to see you take a shower whilst reading a magazine (actually, that would probably not be so, I don't want to actually see you doing that :))) or went camping.
Thinking a bit more about this there is a feature that makes newspapers and magazines so bathroom friendly that will be hard to recreate on a reader.
Namely, parallel accessibility. When I sit on my thrown I don't go there to read a specific article. I browse the magazine for something that look intriguing. It's hard to manage that sort of page flipping and scanning on a reader. But it's essential to the use mode.
Page flipping, yeah. (continued on page 65)
65
I really like flipping pages (continued on page 74)
74
When I'm trying to read one article. Also, imagine a medium that had hyperlinks to take you to a subject related to that article?
I think a lot of us are just waiting for ebooks to be a little bit better.
That's going to be Catch-22, in that publishers and manufacturers are going to want a market first. I'm annoyed by the number of books that you can't get in electronic form, given that most dead tree books are already stored on word processors, etc.
Also, the DRM aspect of most eReaders and ebooks is a bit annoying. While it's cool that I can buy books instantly off amazon and have subscriptions delivered directly to my Kindle. It is also frustrating that I cannot loan electronic books out to friends or sell them to a used book store. And given this lack of feature, why are most ebooks still 90% of the price of the paperbacks? (I know why, it's a rhetorical question)
DRM and copyright on ebooks is very annoying. One or the other, please! Either make the DRM so when I give a book away, I can no longer view it, and adjust the copyright to suit that, or make the cost a lot lower, to reflect zero cost of printing, distributing, etc.
What's convenient about trying to read a broadsheet newspaper in a car, bus, train, plane? Even a tabloid format is challenging on a plane.
Have you used one recently? No scrolling, nothing more complicated than pushing a button for page turning. Dead tree magazines require page turning as well. And my magazine doesn't receive phone calls, do appointments, etc. Batteries, well, if you can remember to plug it in when you go to bed, that one's sorted.
I'll type this reply really slowly, to make sure you can understand.
Magazines shouldn't need batteries.
Fuel cells, perhaps? Yes, I'm being deliberately obtuse. It's my reaction to others who are being deliberately obtuse.
Reminds me of when QA wanted a corrupt word file to test something. "Fine", I said, opened a word doc with hexeditor, made some random changes, saved it. Opened it with Word, instant BSOD. "A little less corrupt" said QA.
When my country launches a war of aggression with the intent of destroying a neighbor and loses said war then I'll worry about being kicked out of my home.
But hasn't that already ... oh, nevermind.
empathy for the victims, not increase them.
There's nothing wrong with empathy for the victims. There's everything wrong with blaming Israel for their predicament. If Hamas obeyed the laws of war and fought in the open under uniform I suspect that civilian casualties would be greatly reduced.
If Hamas did that they'd get wiped out in the first week. And they would have to know that, so they fight in a way that gives them a chance.
Mark my works: Peace will break out in the Middle East... Yeah, a Carthaginian Peace.
But I'm on a low salt diet!
I'm thinking they didn't expect a Spanish Inquisition...
They really should implement SSL logins soon. It appears as though Barack Obama's Twitter account was recently somehow affected by this: http://flickr.com/photos/cparker15/3171416978/
While I know this doesn't really mean a whole lot to many on Slashdot, I'm sure Barack Obama has a lot of followers that have been duped by him.
There, fixed it for ya.
It gets so you can read it at a glance, without conscious decoding. Sad, really. So is reading this: http://www.getdigital.de/products/if_you_can_read_this understanding and laughing at a glance.
One strong-hold of IE has and probably always will be the corporate desktop, simply because it can be configured on the AD from factory install. That means basically that admins can lock it down (No ActiveX,
I *wish* our corporate powers that be would make it "No activeX" - it'd stop other areas of the corp from foisting internal ActiveX apps on us.
You mean, don't impose micromanagement at the legislative level?
Prosecuting teens as adults? If you're going to give them the responsibilities of adults, you should give them the rights. Else no deal.
"The body thetans made me do it"
No, it won't. If you're performing a crime of passion, you will likely strike at full force. Human flesh isn't very strong; even a butter knife will do serious damage, simply because it is a thin object.
If a dull butter knife is sufficient for a killing blow equal to sharper and larger knives, why do people planning on using knives use larger and sharper ones?
I know what Freud would answer to that...
Set it up with one of those RFID key fobs - when you're out of range it stops working, dismounts, wipes ram, your choice.
Could be that the person wanted a shot of espresso. 25ml will look half full for must cups.
Automatic coffee machines produce quite bad coffee[1]. If you're prepared to do a bit of work getting grind/dose/tamp set up, you'll get a much better cup. Also, eschew any espresso maker that says it uses a thermoblock. Rancilio Silvia is a good machine.
[1] they get temperature, shot size, dose grind and tamp wrong. And they are extremely hard to clean.
eWMDs? Won't someone please think of the scriptkiddies!
It's not art if it's "porn".
It's patently not art if it's prior porn.
And porn music sure aint art.
Ask the salesman if the arrow represents conventional current, or electron flow. (they could answer yes, of course :)
Yeah this is getting ridiculous. We need to go back to the ROOT reason why child pornography is illegal: - to protect real children/teens from being raped by adults
But you repeat yourself. Clue: look at http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=aussie+slang+root&meta=cr%3DcountryAU :):)
Even click "I'm feeling lucky"