You know I agree with you. I remember seeing a documentary in 3D years ago and unlike other films where you remember seeing something about it, that one gave me memories. The kind you have of places you've been. It was really surprising afterwards even though it wasn't mind blowing during the screening. So clearly it's PR and everything but I wouldn't say it's bullshit either...
Problem is 4mpg doesn't mean much. Is that 4mpg starting from 15 mpg (26%) or 4 mpg starting from 45mpg (8.9%). mpg gains diminishe as you go higher and higher, meaning that going from 15 to 17 (+11% efficiency) mpg yields a greater gain in efficiency than going from 45 to 49mpg (2x the mpg, but only a 8% gain in efficiency).
Because you've never stumbled upon sites with questionable content ? I know I have, and I wasn't even looking for porn (as far as I can remember:) ) It was a Russian site offering pictures of very young naked girls. But I'll admit it was years ago when there wasn't such thing as google's safe search and the like.
And to make the discussion progress, I'll first say that the key benefit I see to this system is that it makes a clear destination when one encounter such a site by mistake/chance. When I found that Russian site, I wanted to report it, but I remember I didn't find who to contact. I'll also compare this to the anti-phising / anti-malware filters in modern browsers. This isn't completely different and I don't remember/.'s outcry when this was first announced.
No geographic zones. May not be that important for Americans, but usually a pain for the rest of the world. I'm sure it pisses American anime fans too...
I know my grammar sucks sometimes, but I'm pretty sure there is only a single verb in that sentence and it's "to be", I'll even risk gessing it's the conditional form "can be" which was used. So, I don't really think the tag "stopturningnounsintoverbs" is really appropriated in that case...
You know this is actually insightful. I think that if a lot of the middle-east countries' tradition/culture didn't force young men to hope for virgins after blowing themselves up to actually experience sex, maybe the world would be a better/more peaceful place...
France did only consider crypto a weapon for a bit longer than the US. Or did they? Last I checked you can't export from the US any crypto related stuff to non "friendly" countries like half of middle-east or Cuba... And it's not like it ever was enforced in France to start with... At that time I could have been emprisonned a lot for PGP, SSH or even HTTPS. Like I was gonna send my CC number in the clear, yeah right...
That'd be true if you compared wireless to a wired network where everybody shares the same link (think hub or old coax wiring). But unlike current (and probably future) wireless network where that bandwidth has to be shared among all the users, this can be the bandwidth of a single household. Much more interesting in my opinion. So, as nice and easy as it seems, I don't see wireless ever replacing wired networks in every setup, maybe it's the solution of choice for scarcely populated areas, but in the cities wired is the way to go IMHO, especially since wires are already there for most people.
Not that two users doing the same thing means anything but I did exactly the same, mostly because Office 2004 on a Mac is a big POS. The interface is very counter-intuitive compared to every other Mac app and the floating windows overlapping the dialogs is a pain.
I'll let you be the judge of that based on this quote:
The Apple OSX platform is missing a large number of common and esential productivity tools commonly used on the Windows platform. For example the endearing BonziBuddy can only be found on Windows, and therefore will only run on a Mac that has been upgraded to Boot-Camp and Windows. I suspect that this is exactly what most Mac-owners will feel forced to do.
You still can't tell? The geek membership revocation desk is just right of the exit, please drop your badge in the basket before leaving;)
Nokia's Finnish not Swedish, but I agree that their HIG could benefit from some usability research (especially the Symbian phones that I always found cumbersome and I'm a geek who's been working in the phone industry for years).
Too bad there's no -1 Clueless... Belgium lits its highway at night, all of them and in a pretty intense way, hence light pollution there is worse than usual.
I'm not exactly a fan of religion, but please, moderating the parent "flamebait"? Seriously? Please mods, don't push your agenda and let others the right to disagree with you
I guess if you want to go that route, so is oil or coal. You could also say it's wind power because without winds, it would only rain over the sea and there wouldn't be any way to use the water. But in a dam, the only energy used is potential energy. How that energy was accumulated is irrelevant if it isn't part of the process used to collect it. Also it's not solar because a dam still works at night. Finally, it's not solar when you use it to store energy, like when water is pumped in a reservoir above another when the production is in excess and you want to use that energy later.
Err.. actually you can tap gravity: ever heard of hydroelectricity ? From what I understand, they're trying/claiming to do the equivalent with magnetism...
He must have been, because I didn't notice anything wrong with what he said. I actually think he's right and what he pointed out should be corrected... Sometimes mod puzzles me....
I guess that when your government starts to commemorate the hero of the nation during the "youth and sports day" using means only found in USSR (onlypictures I found that partially describe what I've seen when I was there, think times 100 for a more accurate representation), if you think a bit about it: you're worried... Or you could just celebrate by going to the nearest stadium to see one of the many big shows the state organize with all the kids of the schools parading in matching colors. Only word that came to my mind all day long : "Big Brother is watching you"...
Well, I don't want to be rude, but you're not a security expert (obviously):) Actually the way it works is that you have two asymmetric keys. One decrypts what the other encrypted and vice versa. The way you decide one is private and the other is public is completely subjective and doesn't change the process.
Our findings report no particular delays or lost of time in the daily work due to the use of OpenOffice.org.
I'd like to disagree with that specific point. Although it may be true in the long term, there's definitely an initial adjustment time during which users are slower. I speak from experience here. My gf work in the French administration where everybody has recently switched to XP+OpenOffice. So, sure, they gain a lot of time because they don't have to watch their windows 98 computer reboot 15 times a day since the XP upgrade. But that alone can't compensate for the fact that they lose time trying to find how to do stuff in OOo because they don't know how to. They received training to easy the migration. The teacher was so bad they used 45 minutes just to find a setting alone. I don't remember exactly what it was, but they were searching for something as complicated as inserting a TOC somewhere. Ridiculous. Hopefully my gf who's not as much a luser as her co-workers and has a bit of initial experience with OOo (it's the only office package we use at home), has managed to do most of what she wanted. I couldn't avoid a couple of panicked phone calls from her asking how to do something or how to hide that huge gallery browser in Impress.
So while I'm all for FLOSS (stuff like MS office are outrageously priced for what they do IMHO and I love to be able to do the patch myself if something bugs), I'm pretty sure that habits have a non-null cost that may be underestimated.
And so is SECAM (used only in France as far as European countries are concerned): I can tell you I've watched B&W TV well after Color TV was being broadcast.
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You know I agree with you. I remember seeing a documentary in 3D years ago and unlike other films where you remember seeing something about it, that one gave me memories. The kind you have of places you've been. It was really surprising afterwards even though it wasn't mind blowing during the screening.
So clearly it's PR and everything but I wouldn't say it's bullshit either...
Problem is 4mpg doesn't mean much. Is that 4mpg starting from 15 mpg (26%) or 4 mpg starting from 45mpg (8.9%). mpg gains diminishe as you go higher and higher, meaning that going from 15 to 17 (+11% efficiency) mpg yields a greater gain in efficiency than going from 45 to 49mpg (2x the mpg, but only a 8% gain in efficiency).
Reminds me of that book by Neal Stephenson called Zodiac. Dates back from 1988, hasn't aged a bit!
Because you've never stumbled upon sites with questionable content ? I know I have, and I wasn't even looking for porn (as far as I can remember :) ) It was a Russian site offering pictures of very young naked girls. But I'll admit it was years ago when there wasn't such thing as google's safe search and the like.
/.'s outcry when this was first announced.
And to make the discussion progress, I'll first say that the key benefit I see to this system is that it makes a clear destination when one encounter such a site by mistake/chance. When I found that Russian site, I wanted to report it, but I remember I didn't find who to contact. I'll also compare this to the anti-phising / anti-malware filters in modern browsers. This isn't completely different and I don't remember
Disclaimer: I'm French.
No geographic zones. May not be that important for Americans, but usually a pain for the rest of the world. I'm sure it pisses American anime fans too...
Damn, you were faster than me! That was exactly my first though :)
I know my grammar sucks sometimes, but I'm pretty sure there is only a single verb in that sentence and it's "to be", I'll even risk gessing it's the conditional form "can be" which was used. So, I don't really think the tag "stopturningnounsintoverbs" is really appropriated in that case...
You know this is actually insightful. I think that if a lot of the middle-east countries' tradition/culture didn't force young men to hope for virgins after blowing themselves up to actually experience sex, maybe the world would be a better/more peaceful place...
France did only consider crypto a weapon for a bit longer than the US. Or did they? Last I checked you can't export from the US any crypto related stuff to non "friendly" countries like half of middle-east or Cuba...
And it's not like it ever was enforced in France to start with... At that time I could have been emprisonned a lot for PGP, SSH or even HTTPS. Like I was gonna send my CC number in the clear, yeah right...
That'd be true if you compared wireless to a wired network where everybody shares the same link (think hub or old coax wiring). But unlike current (and probably future) wireless network where that bandwidth has to be shared among all the users, this can be the bandwidth of a single household. Much more interesting in my opinion. So, as nice and easy as it seems, I don't see wireless ever replacing wired networks in every setup, maybe it's the solution of choice for scarcely populated areas, but in the cities wired is the way to go IMHO, especially since wires are already there for most people.
Not that two users doing the same thing means anything but I did exactly the same, mostly because Office 2004 on a Mac is a big POS. The interface is very counter-intuitive compared to every other Mac app and the floating windows overlapping the dialogs is a pain.
I really enjoyed your post, but I must admit that the reference to wikipedia's "joke" article was priceless :)
Nokia's Finnish not Swedish, but I agree that their HIG could benefit from some usability research (especially the Symbian phones that I always found cumbersome and I'm a geek who's been working in the phone industry for years).
Too bad there's no -1 Clueless... Belgium lits its highway at night, all of them and in a pretty intense way, hence light pollution there is worse than usual.
I'm not exactly a fan of religion, but please, moderating the parent "flamebait"? Seriously? Please mods, don't push your agenda and let others the right to disagree with you
I guess if you want to go that route, so is oil or coal. You could also say it's wind power because without winds, it would only rain over the sea and there wouldn't be any way to use the water. But in a dam, the only energy used is potential energy. How that energy was accumulated is irrelevant if it isn't part of the process used to collect it. Also it's not solar because a dam still works at night. Finally, it's not solar when you use it to store energy, like when water is pumped in a reservoir above another when the production is in excess and you want to use that energy later.
Err.. actually you can tap gravity: ever heard of hydroelectricity ? From what I understand, they're trying/claiming to do the equivalent with magnetism...
Mod Parent Up ! And I had unused mod points yesterday, classic.
He must have been, because I didn't notice anything wrong with what he said. I actually think he's right and what he pointed out should be corrected... Sometimes mod puzzles me....
I guess that when your government starts to commemorate the hero of the nation during the "youth and sports day" using means only found in USSR (only pictures I found that partially describe what I've seen when I was there, think times 100 for a more accurate representation), if you think a bit about it: you're worried... Or you could just celebrate by going to the nearest stadium to see one of the many big shows the state organize with all the kids of the schools parading in matching colors. Only word that came to my mind all day long : "Big Brother is watching you"...
Is that a new politically correct term for pedophilia, which of course is an altruistic way to "share the love" or something ? :)
Well, I don't want to be rude, but you're not a security expert (obviously) :) Actually the way it works is that you have two asymmetric keys. One decrypts what the other encrypted and vice versa. The way you decide one is private and the other is public is completely subjective and doesn't change the process.
So while I'm all for FLOSS (stuff like MS office are outrageously priced for what they do IMHO and I love to be able to do the patch myself if something bugs), I'm pretty sure that habits have a non-null cost that may be underestimated.
And so is SECAM (used only in France as far as European countries are concerned): I can tell you I've watched B&W TV well after Color TV was being broadcast.