Actually, the correct answer to his post would have been, "What conservative party?"
For that matter, "What liberal party?"
We have two parties in this country. One is right-wing. The other is a coalition of various flavors of middle-of-the-roaders. Neither party conservative. Neither party liberal. We lose on both counts.
You should be modded +5 insightful; I don't know what kind of drugs the person who modded you offtopic is on.
I am a liberal. I vote for Democratic party candidates 99% of the time not because they represent my views, but because the Republican candidates usually represent the antithesis of my views. There are a few true liberals like Russ Feingold in the Democratic party, but in truth it is dominated by Blue Dogs rather than liberals. Which is why we are still in Iraq and Afghanistan and why we won't get the health insurance reform we deserve.
I can't see how multitasking has anything to do with it. When you interact with a wave, you are either reading it or writing it, not both at once. And you only read (or write) one section at a time. And unlike e-mail, responses will be uniformly related to their context (unlike e-mail replies, which can be contextual, chronological, reverse chronological, or pretty much anything).
Yeah, you can respond to a wave out of contextual order, but it will take a conscious effort to commit such an antisocial act.
Clearly you interact with people who know that top-posting is evil and have no urge to reply to each email before reading the following responses that have been sitting in their inbox for 3 days.
I envy you.
Please bottom-post, so we can easily tell the context of your replies!
The stuff you wrote should only be there as context so that you know which part of the message his reply pertains to. If he didn't delete everything else, then the problem isn't because he bottom-posted. Also, he shouldn't be bottom-posting really, he should be replying in-line. Of course, if he's replying to just one point, and he does delete the other stuff, then an in-line reply is indistinguishable from bottom-posting.
I get emails constructed just like his postscript example all the time, so that is neither artificial nor disingenuous.
Email conversations are not message board conversations, where third parties may enter in the middle of a discussion and might require some context.
Ever hear of forwarding? That's a technique that allows you to bring a new person into the e-mail exchange.
Generally, they are a linear conversation where the only reason for quoting previous emails is for the sake of completeness.
Not in my company; they are more typically a tree structure. Each leaf of the tree could contain a quote from the root message all the way up to that leaf. But there could be replies to earlier posts in that tree that lead to other leaves, and if these replies quote their histories, you can compare and see that their histories only match up to a point and then they diverge. So if different branches lead to different conclusions, which branch is the official one that the poor soul who has to implement the decisions should follow?
You're right, I guess I went to quickly and didn't catch the Character Encodings. But that's a good one to bury deeply, because there are so many options that a two- or three-level hierarchy would have awkwardly long drop-down lists, and these options aren't very commonly used as you pointed out.
I think the competition between Android and Moblin will be good, in that it will ensure that neither camp sits back on its laurels. Just in the near term, I hope the potential market threat Moblin represents will shake Google into implementing Bluetooth file sharing, right now a prominent shortcoming in Android.
Technically we're considered to be in an ice age now. Ice ages consist of glacial and interglacial periods (marked by advance and retreat of ice sheets and glaciers). What ended 10000 years ago was the most recent glacial period. We may well be seeing the end of the current ice age (so this "interglacial" might more properly be called a "postglacial" period?).
Yes, I realize that in colloquial usage, "ice age" refers to the glacial periods only.
The problem with menu style systems is that it is not intuitive.
Well, the ribbon is a menu-style system, just implemented differently. As a command-line, text-oriented guy, I don't particularly like menus, but if well-organized they can be usable enough, whether done as ribbons or drop-down list menus.
Putting features in front of the user rather than 3 to 4 deep in a menu system is far more intuitive.
I just checked my Firefox menu, and the only things I found more than two levels deep were under "Bookmarks -> Bookmarks Toolbar", a feature that I don't care to use anyway.
In Office, if I want to find an item, I select the appropriate tab in the ribbon, then select an item in the ribbon. But the item itself might have a dropdown list. That's still two levels.
The only real difference as far as usability is that you are already one level deep, so that if what you want is in the currently selected tab, you eliminate the first step. I don't see it is a sufficient advantage to overcome the visual clutter and consumption of extra screen real estate.
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Recovery was going to cost us one way or another. Inflation, taxes, pick your poison. In fact we'll probably have some of both.
Actually, the correct answer to his post would have been, "What conservative party?"
For that matter, "What liberal party?"
We have two parties in this country. One is right-wing. The other is a coalition of various flavors of middle-of-the-roaders. Neither party conservative. Neither party liberal. We lose on both counts.
Touch but not multitouch.
On the other points I agree, he doesn't know what he's talking about.
I wonder what app is available for the iPhone that is not available for Android? (Other than, ironically, Google Earth?)
There is no past tense in the passage you cited. It is in the future perfect.
Do you have evidence for any of your three assertions? Or like so many people here are you just happy to make s**t up?
Wasn't the question plural?
Doesn't mean the answer has to be.
What accomplishments did the Chemistry prize reward? Be sure to name more than one (and sub-tasks of a single accomplishment don't count).
The US followed their own law for declaring war
You realize that the US has not declared war in almost 70 years, don't you?
I did!
I was overruled, unfortunately...
Well, he's clearly from Nigeria, so...
So you won't distinguish between first- and second-degree murder based on things like whether it was premeditated?
You should be modded +5 insightful; I don't know what kind of drugs the person who modded you offtopic is on.
I am a liberal. I vote for Democratic party candidates 99% of the time not because they represent my views, but because the Republican candidates usually represent the antithesis of my views. There are a few true liberals like Russ Feingold in the Democratic party, but in truth it is dominated by Blue Dogs rather than liberals. Which is why we are still in Iraq and Afghanistan and why we won't get the health insurance reform we deserve.
That would be the debt incurred in cleaning up GWB's messes?
Who deserves this better than the man who ended the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and closed the Guantanamo prison camp?
Oh, wait, that didn't happen in this universe.
I like your choice for a Heinlein book. Everyone seems to bring up "Starship Troopers", but "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" is so much better.
I can't see how multitasking has anything to do with it. When you interact with a wave, you are either reading it or writing it, not both at once. And you only read (or write) one section at a time. And unlike e-mail, responses will be uniformly related to their context (unlike e-mail replies, which can be contextual, chronological, reverse chronological, or pretty much anything).
Yeah, you can respond to a wave out of contextual order, but it will take a conscious effort to commit such an antisocial act.
Makes sense to me.
This is
What's top posting?
I agree, top posting is awful.
Clearly you interact with people who know that top-posting is evil and have no urge to reply to each email before reading the following responses that have been sitting in their inbox for 3 days.
I envy you.
Please bottom-post, so we can easily tell the context of your replies!
The stuff you wrote should only be there as context so that you know which part of the message his reply pertains to. If he didn't delete everything else, then the problem isn't because he bottom-posted. Also, he shouldn't be bottom-posting really, he should be replying in-line. Of course, if he's replying to just one point, and he does delete the other stuff, then an in-line reply is indistinguishable from bottom-posting.
I get emails constructed just like his postscript example all the time, so that is neither artificial nor disingenuous.
Email conversations are not message board conversations, where third parties may enter in the middle of a discussion and might require some context.
Ever hear of forwarding? That's a technique that allows you to bring a new person into the e-mail exchange.
Generally, they are a linear conversation where the only reason for quoting previous emails is for the sake of completeness.
Not in my company; they are more typically a tree structure. Each leaf of the tree could contain a quote from the root message all the way up to that leaf. But there could be replies to earlier posts in that tree that lead to other leaves, and if these replies quote their histories, you can compare and see that their histories only match up to a point and then they diverge. So if different branches lead to different conclusions, which branch is the official one that the poor soul who has to implement the decisions should follow?
If it's equirectangular (as I think it is) then it should come out nicely in ptviewer.
You're right, I guess I went to quickly and didn't catch the Character Encodings. But that's a good one to bury deeply, because there are so many options that a two- or three-level hierarchy would have awkwardly long drop-down lists, and these options aren't very commonly used as you pointed out.
Three weeds enter, one weed leaves.
I think the competition between Android and Moblin will be good, in that it will ensure that neither camp sits back on its laurels. Just in the near term, I hope the potential market threat Moblin represents will shake Google into implementing Bluetooth file sharing, right now a prominent shortcoming in Android.
Technically we're considered to be in an ice age now. Ice ages consist of glacial and interglacial periods (marked by advance and retreat of ice sheets and glaciers). What ended 10000 years ago was the most recent glacial period. We may well be seeing the end of the current ice age (so this "interglacial" might more properly be called a "postglacial" period?).
Yes, I realize that in colloquial usage, "ice age" refers to the glacial periods only.
No real world example of CLI? How about natural language?
"Pass the salt, please!"
"Here you go!"
The problem with menu style systems is that it is not intuitive.
Well, the ribbon is a menu-style system, just implemented differently. As a command-line, text-oriented guy, I don't particularly like menus, but if well-organized they can be usable enough, whether done as ribbons or drop-down list menus.
Putting features in front of the user rather than 3 to 4 deep in a menu system is far more intuitive.
I just checked my Firefox menu, and the only things I found more than two levels deep were under "Bookmarks -> Bookmarks Toolbar", a feature that I don't care to use anyway.
In Office, if I want to find an item, I select the appropriate tab in the ribbon, then select an item in the ribbon. But the item itself might have a dropdown list. That's still two levels.
The only real difference as far as usability is that you are already one level deep, so that if what you want is in the currently selected tab, you eliminate the first step. I don't see it is a sufficient advantage to overcome the visual clutter and consumption of extra screen real estate.