I would go so far as to say that anyone advocating needing to remember as even dumber than those who would forget. We are way past the level of technology where we should have to bother even thinking about trying to remember to maintain the battery.
And, there is no reason that the water levels could not be monitored with a sensor that simply shuts off the car before the levels get too low. You set the gauge in the dashboard to show "Empty" as some value greater than the shut down value. As far as the user is concerned, the car is empty when the gauge says it is empty, and there is no risk of the water running too low.
No, it is like putting candy orange slices into the health food section because they are "fat free", "good source of vitamin C", "gluten free", "made with all natural ingredients", and "made with orange juice".
In short, it is lying. And it is dangerous when those lies are used to convince the gullible to be self destructive. As a grocery shopper, you just want to buy candy and tell yourself that you are buying health food. If you want to live a life of self delusion, that is your decision, but those of us that would call out the lie are not the ones who will be looking back and thinking we made mistakes.
Of course J. Random User still exists. While I do believe that a Bluetooth keyboard can make a tablet usable for writing, not many people even know that they can use a keyboard with their tablet, much less have actually tried it.
That being said, any move to tablets just shows the truth to my statement that J. Random User really isn't tied to MS software anymore. Besides, the difference between a tablet and a laptop is more a matter of built-in peripherals than it is any real distinction. Laptops and tablets are both just computers. Put a tablet in one of these and it is a laptop.
It doesn't matter that they are good enough for most people. The people that are satisfied with mobile phone gaming are not the people that would buy a handheld console AND games. Most of them wouldn't even buy a console, but when they did, they would buy the console with one game and that was it. We will likely see a small drop in handheld gaming, but not much. Those of us with a 6' stack of games are not the people who are satisfied with phone gaming. We often do play on our phones, but only as a time waster. Not really so much as entertainment.
Pretty fair assessment. We never owned any PSPs, but in our household of three (me, my wife, and our son), we have owned 8 DS products (including our current 3DSes). A couple of of the original DSLs developed bad hinges, but that isn't a big surprise given that they were constantly being opened and closed for 5 years before being replaced with 3DSes.
And who will still be here in 20 years and know what to do when the temps have all moved on and taken their domain knowledge with them.
This is part of why I say that the H1-B visa should require that a US citizen should be required to be hired to shadow every single H1-B visa position at an equal pay. The H1-B visa holder should not be allowed to do any work when the US citizen is not shadowing him and the US citizen should not be able to do any work when the H1-B visa holder is not shadowing him. This way, the cost of hiring an H1-B visa holder will pretty much always be more expensive than local labor and thus employers will only hire an H1-B visa worker when they really cannot find local labor. (which is what the program is supposed to be.) It also solves the problem of not being able to find qualified local labor, as an actual gaps in local labor skills would eventually be filled by the shadowing program.
A valid point on the margins and expectations, but a large part of Microsoft's hold is the network effect between home users, gamers, and businesses. Gamers can be turned in just a couple of years. Businesses are harder, but given that they don't like to rewrite software, but given how much they are moving to web based applications, and moving to locking down the desktop, that market isn't as stable as some would want to believe. I don't think that Microsoft can really afford to lose the home market. They clearly see it the same way as they go well out of their way in trying to derail other OSes from gaining inroads in that market.
Either way, the thread was concerning J. Random User walking into a store to buy a laptop. That is the group of users that are not gamers or business users.
Yes. I would be very happy to look back at my life and say that when the times that I did it was in the context of studies that purport to be scientific studies. I can honestly say that anyone who can say "I inspired people to use really well defined terms [in scientific studies]!" has added to the advancement of the human race.
It is much better than those of you who look back on their life and say "I inspired people to make invalid scientific claims and helped to fleece people into believing invalid studies!"
I don't need to 'feel better about my porn consumption'. You are projecting your own sexual repression on to those around you. "Haggling" over what is and isn't porn is absolutely necessary. You are trying to claim that porn is harmful, yet you don't want to define what it really is. Your first definition was wrong beyond reason, and your modified, "I really meant", definition would include a non-stop barrage of porn on the vast majority of humanity on a daily basis for as long as there have been creatures called "human" on the planet. Given that an absence of porn (by your definition) is, and always has been incredibly rare in human history, a claim that it is harmful, betrays more of your own sexual dysfunction.
Uhh... Clear? Apple is the company that issued an open letter telling users that they don't track you, and then in weasel words, at the bottom included an "except" for the fact that we do because we are making a mapping application.
You are wrong. As odd as it seems to tell someone that they are wrong about something like this, I feel completely comfortable doing it because the process to send a text message is virtually identical between the iPhone and and Android phone. The only real difference between the two is the keyboard, and the iOS is so vastly far behind Android in that respect, Apple has just announced that they are abandoning their claims to have the best keyboard and opening up their OS to third party keyboards just like Android.
Yes, one menu bar. It is poor UI design for high resolution displays. Another poster pointed out that the lastest version has finally added a menu bar to each monitor, but that is a half assed solution to a broken UI. Of course, he used the same kind of excuses for the half assed fix that Mac fans used for the broken UI of only one menu bar.
Yes, I have used the OS. Recognizing that the UI isn't very good is not the same thing as not having used it. Pointing out a hot key as a replacement for the GUI design isn't even close to valid. Hot keys are for people who want to avoid interacting with the GUI. It is dandy that there is a second GUI method to eject the disk, but it doesn't change the fact that there is still a GUI method for ejecting removable that any sane designer would link to a delete/format command.
No. It isn't. That is part of the "Macs have a good UI" myth. A mouse is incredibly good at fine detail pointing. Once you have achieved the ability to use a mouse at all, pointing to a specific spot that is in the middle of the screen is no harder than pointing to a spot that is along the top edge.
It is great that after 30 years, Apple has figured out that only one menu bar is a poor design. Maybe in another 30 years, they will figure out that putting the menu at the top is a bad idea. Then all the Apple fans can claim that the current version is the one that really is good.
That is what you would like to believe, but it simply isn't true. You see, some of us have been using computers longer than 20 years. We already went through the years without the Start Menu. We didn't like it. It was less intuitive. There was less discoverability. Frankly, it sucked. When the Start Menu was introduced, the only complaint that was heard was that the name "Start" didn't make a lot of sense. No one was complaining about the usability.
So, no. It isn't because we are used to it. It is because having a user interface that makes sense is better than one that doesn't.
I completely agree. OSX has a poor user interface. Their "Save screen real estate by only having one pull down menu" made sense when we were running on 320x200 screens. At that resolution, a pull down menu took a significant percentage of the screen real estate, and everyone was using a single screen. Today, screen real estate is abundant, and multiple monitors are common. With the single menu, there is no good visual cue to indicate which of your many open windows the pull down menu will affect. This is a poor UI giving poor usability. Putting removable media in the trash is the movement for ejecting the media? Total brain dead UI.
No, it really isn't. OSX is a usability nightmare on par with Windows 8. The best part of OSX is that it is a *nix under the hood, and that is of little to no use for J. Random User.
Really most non-business/non-gamer users are not all that tied to Windows software anymore. The web browser has largely become their OS. Web browsing, email in a web browser, shopping from a web browser, and media playing from the web browser is most of what gets done on a personal computer these days. Even the occasional resume doesn't really need any Microsoft products these days.
Being in high school lit doesn't qualify one to recognize that The Scarlet letter is antique porn. Being a thinking human qualifies one to recognize it. Even if they are only in high school lit. The fact that you couldn't recognize the difference between what I said, and what you heard is a good indication on why you can't see the obvious and must rely on an 'expert' to tell you what is and isn't good writing.
significant themes of revenge, forgiveness, guilt
There is plenty of that in modern porn too. That in no way indicates quality writing.
It was also one of the first views I (and Im sure many others) got of puritan culture from a writer of the period.
Your ignorance does not stop it from being trashy porn.
Well, some high school students can identify that trashy novels about married chicks banging reverends would be porn in the 1800's while some people can never see the obvious because an "expert" told them that the novel was quality writing. The later will spend their lives thinking that the writing is so incredible that 'only the worthy can see it!'.
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Which is no problem at all if you are smart about your credit card use and pay the full balance every month.
I would go so far as to say that anyone advocating needing to remember as even dumber than those who would forget. We are way past the level of technology where we should have to bother even thinking about trying to remember to maintain the battery.
And, there is no reason that the water levels could not be monitored with a sensor that simply shuts off the car before the levels get too low. You set the gauge in the dashboard to show "Empty" as some value greater than the shut down value. As far as the user is concerned, the car is empty when the gauge says it is empty, and there is no risk of the water running too low.
No, it is like putting candy orange slices into the health food section because they are "fat free", "good source of vitamin C", "gluten free", "made with all natural ingredients", and "made with orange juice".
In short, it is lying. And it is dangerous when those lies are used to convince the gullible to be self destructive. As a grocery shopper, you just want to buy candy and tell yourself that you are buying health food. If you want to live a life of self delusion, that is your decision, but those of us that would call out the lie are not the ones who will be looking back and thinking we made mistakes.
Of course J. Random User still exists. While I do believe that a Bluetooth keyboard can make a tablet usable for writing, not many people even know that they can use a keyboard with their tablet, much less have actually tried it.
That being said, any move to tablets just shows the truth to my statement that J. Random User really isn't tied to MS software anymore. Besides, the difference between a tablet and a laptop is more a matter of built-in peripherals than it is any real distinction. Laptops and tablets are both just computers. Put a tablet in one of these and it is a laptop.
It doesn't matter that they are good enough for most people. The people that are satisfied with mobile phone gaming are not the people that would buy a handheld console AND games. Most of them wouldn't even buy a console, but when they did, they would buy the console with one game and that was it. We will likely see a small drop in handheld gaming, but not much. Those of us with a 6' stack of games are not the people who are satisfied with phone gaming. We often do play on our phones, but only as a time waster. Not really so much as entertainment.
Pretty fair assessment. We never owned any PSPs, but in our household of three (me, my wife, and our son), we have owned 8 DS products (including our current 3DSes). A couple of of the original DSLs developed bad hinges, but that isn't a big surprise given that they were constantly being opened and closed for 5 years before being replaced with 3DSes.
Exactly.
And who will still be here in 20 years and know what to do when the temps have all moved on and taken their domain knowledge with them.
This is part of why I say that the H1-B visa should require that a US citizen should be required to be hired to shadow every single H1-B visa position at an equal pay. The H1-B visa holder should not be allowed to do any work when the US citizen is not shadowing him and the US citizen should not be able to do any work when the H1-B visa holder is not shadowing him. This way, the cost of hiring an H1-B visa holder will pretty much always be more expensive than local labor and thus employers will only hire an H1-B visa worker when they really cannot find local labor. (which is what the program is supposed to be.) It also solves the problem of not being able to find qualified local labor, as an actual gaps in local labor skills would eventually be filled by the shadowing program.
A valid point on the margins and expectations, but a large part of Microsoft's hold is the network effect between home users, gamers, and businesses. Gamers can be turned in just a couple of years. Businesses are harder, but given that they don't like to rewrite software, but given how much they are moving to web based applications, and moving to locking down the desktop, that market isn't as stable as some would want to believe. I don't think that Microsoft can really afford to lose the home market. They clearly see it the same way as they go well out of their way in trying to derail other OSes from gaining inroads in that market.
Either way, the thread was concerning J. Random User walking into a store to buy a laptop. That is the group of users that are not gamers or business users.
Yes. I would be very happy to look back at my life and say that when the times that I did it was in the context of studies that purport to be scientific studies. I can honestly say that anyone who can say "I inspired people to use really well defined terms [in scientific studies]!" has added to the advancement of the human race.
It is much better than those of you who look back on their life and say "I inspired people to make invalid scientific claims and helped to fleece people into believing invalid studies!"
I don't need to 'feel better about my porn consumption'. You are projecting your own sexual repression on to those around you. "Haggling" over what is and isn't porn is absolutely necessary. You are trying to claim that porn is harmful, yet you don't want to define what it really is. Your first definition was wrong beyond reason, and your modified, "I really meant", definition would include a non-stop barrage of porn on the vast majority of humanity on a daily basis for as long as there have been creatures called "human" on the planet. Given that an absence of porn (by your definition) is, and always has been incredibly rare in human history, a claim that it is harmful, betrays more of your own sexual dysfunction.
Uhh... Clear? Apple is the company that issued an open letter telling users that they don't track you, and then in weasel words, at the bottom included an "except" for the fact that we do because we are making a mapping application.
You are wrong. As odd as it seems to tell someone that they are wrong about something like this, I feel completely comfortable doing it because the process to send a text message is virtually identical between the iPhone and and Android phone. The only real difference between the two is the keyboard, and the iOS is so vastly far behind Android in that respect, Apple has just announced that they are abandoning their claims to have the best keyboard and opening up their OS to third party keyboards just like Android.
Yes, one menu bar. It is poor UI design for high resolution displays. Another poster pointed out that the lastest version has finally added a menu bar to each monitor, but that is a half assed solution to a broken UI. Of course, he used the same kind of excuses for the half assed fix that Mac fans used for the broken UI of only one menu bar.
Yes, I have used the OS. Recognizing that the UI isn't very good is not the same thing as not having used it. Pointing out a hot key as a replacement for the GUI design isn't even close to valid. Hot keys are for people who want to avoid interacting with the GUI. It is dandy that there is a second GUI method to eject the disk, but it doesn't change the fact that there is still a GUI method for ejecting removable that any sane designer would link to a delete/format command.
No. It isn't. That is part of the "Macs have a good UI" myth. A mouse is incredibly good at fine detail pointing. Once you have achieved the ability to use a mouse at all, pointing to a specific spot that is in the middle of the screen is no harder than pointing to a spot that is along the top edge.
It is great that after 30 years, Apple has figured out that only one menu bar is a poor design. Maybe in another 30 years, they will figure out that putting the menu at the top is a bad idea. Then all the Apple fans can claim that the current version is the one that really is good.
That is what you would like to believe, but it simply isn't true. You see, some of us have been using computers longer than 20 years. We already went through the years without the Start Menu. We didn't like it. It was less intuitive. There was less discoverability. Frankly, it sucked. When the Start Menu was introduced, the only complaint that was heard was that the name "Start" didn't make a lot of sense. No one was complaining about the usability.
So, no. It isn't because we are used to it. It is because having a user interface that makes sense is better than one that doesn't.
I completely agree. OSX has a poor user interface. Their "Save screen real estate by only having one pull down menu" made sense when we were running on 320x200 screens. At that resolution, a pull down menu took a significant percentage of the screen real estate, and everyone was using a single screen. Today, screen real estate is abundant, and multiple monitors are common. With the single menu, there is no good visual cue to indicate which of your many open windows the pull down menu will affect. This is a poor UI giving poor usability. Putting removable media in the trash is the movement for ejecting the media? Total brain dead UI.
No, it really isn't. OSX is a usability nightmare on par with Windows 8. The best part of OSX is that it is a *nix under the hood, and that is of little to no use for J. Random User.
Really most non-business/non-gamer users are not all that tied to Windows software anymore. The web browser has largely become their OS. Web browsing, email in a web browser, shopping from a web browser, and media playing from the web browser is most of what gets done on a personal computer these days. Even the occasional resume doesn't really need any Microsoft products these days.
I think the AOL comparison was pretty apt.
So, http://xhamster.com/ isn't porn if it is being watched by a guy that is impotent? And women or physically incapable of watching porn?
If they are using each person's individual definition of porn, then their data is completely invalid. They in no way measured porn consumption.
You are using a completely different definition than the vast majority of the rest of the population. Thus my point stands.
significant themes of revenge, forgiveness, guilt
There is plenty of that in modern porn too. That in no way indicates quality writing.
It was also one of the first views I (and Im sure many others) got of puritan culture from a writer of the period.
Your ignorance does not stop it from being trashy porn.
Your emperor has no clothes.
Well, some high school students can identify that trashy novels about married chicks banging reverends would be porn in the 1800's while some people can never see the obvious because an "expert" told them that the novel was quality writing. The later will spend their lives thinking that the writing is so incredible that 'only the worthy can see it!'.