It's so easy you wonder why they haven't been required to do it before now.
Because it makes things sound like crap, that's why.
Many TV sets have auto-volume these days and you can hear them constantly ramping the sound up in the quiet bits (bacground hiss gets louder) then scrambling to slam the volume level back down when somebody speaks, often making the first word in every dialog unintelligible because it completely saturates the amplifier.
Ick. Keep that sort of thing for ignorant users and car stereos. No need to do it in the broadcast for everybody to suffer.
Is it just me or does switching to "classic" not actually disable all the things people claim to hate, eg. the ribbon? (even the screenshots in the article still show a ribbon in "classic" mode).
If all you're doing is changing the screen colors, does that really make things better?
Thing I don't get is that the federal government normally requires defense contractors and the like to keep very, very close track of what employees do and to which programs they bill their time, down to the decimalized hour, essentially six-minute intervals. Technically an employee is supposed to charge time to go to the bathroom back to the company itself instead of to a particular program. The whole point of such an asinine system is to keep this kind of fraud from being possible, and to attempt to keep employees working on a particular project on-task.
The point of the system is to make sure the pork money ends up in the right place, ie. the boss's pocket.
In the USA she would have been sent outside to play sports. All that sitting indoors and reading isn't good for people and they need to develop socially instead of doing nerdy stuff like curing cancer.
Joking aside, If Bill can manage to kickstart this it might be the greatest thing anybody ever did for humanity. Future generations will look back on this as The Turning Point.
(assuming that it works anywhere near as well as it works on paper)
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It's so easy you wonder why they haven't been required to do it before now.
Because it makes things sound like crap, that's why.
Many TV sets have auto-volume these days and you can hear them constantly ramping the sound up in the quiet bits (bacground hiss gets louder) then scrambling to slam the volume level back down when somebody speaks, often making the first word in every dialog unintelligible because it completely saturates the amplifier.
Ick. Keep that sort of thing for ignorant users and car stereos. No need to do it in the broadcast for everybody to suffer.
Yep, commercials are already broadcast at exactly the same volume as the programmes.
It's just that they're recorded like the explosions and shouting in the movie, not the normal dialogs and quiet suspenseful bits.
IOW this will achieve nothing except a lot more overtime for lawyers.
Fortunately we have things like cell phone records as evidence.
I really, really doubt they can see a photon...
I wonder how long the "debate" will last....
now they are grossly overconfident
Hold my beer and watch this.... (mouseclick)
Has nobody posted this yet?
Yeah, Linux users interfaces are all perfect.
Unity.
Is it just me or does switching to "classic" not actually disable all the things people claim to hate, eg. the ribbon? (even the screenshots in the article still show a ribbon in "classic" mode).
If all you're doing is changing the screen colors, does that really make things better?
Seems silly to me.
Thing I don't get is that the federal government normally requires defense contractors and the like to keep very, very close track of what employees do and to which programs they bill their time, down to the decimalized hour, essentially six-minute intervals. Technically an employee is supposed to charge time to go to the bathroom back to the company itself instead of to a particular program. The whole point of such an asinine system is to keep this kind of fraud from being possible, and to attempt to keep employees working on a particular project on-task.
The point of the system is to make sure the pork money ends up in the right place, ie. the boss's pocket.
The TSA can't detect a pound of C4 in a rectum via groping/scanning so there's no real need for them to do this yet.
All terrorists have to do is sign up, make it through basic training and they get a free pass through airport security.
Sounds like an infallible plan to me.
Damn, you beat me to it!
Well played, sir. Well played.
That is why I have an engineering degree from a world class university and this guy is a Teacher.
I did that and I don't have a degree.
Or an attitude.
If you watch the job lists there's still plenty of demand for COBOL programmers.
COBOL has older applications, and the only way to become an old application is to start with a sound architecture.
You don't read the daily WTF much, do you?
That COBOL code has been maintained for like 30 years, it would naturally be rock solid by now.
OTOH Java is a much more recent language based on those 30 years of experience and we're supposed to have learned how to do things better.
I think it's more likely that more experienced people are working on those COBOL programs, not know-it-all grad students fresh out of education.
Yep. Did they seriously need to do an experiment to figure this out? Just ask a pet owner...
Does anybody seriously still believe that animals are just dumb, mindless beasts? I thought that way of thinking died out two centuries ago.
Instead of doing this experiment they could just ask somebody who's ever owned a pet. Or watch a few David Attenborough wildlife documentaries.
that's why they bought a cheap Android in the first place.
If they were richer they would have bought The Real Thing...?
Antibiotics and viruses don't belong in the same sentence.
In the USA she would have been sent outside to play sports. All that sitting indoors and reading isn't good for people and they need to develop socially instead of doing nerdy stuff like curing cancer.
I didn't read it because I knew it was crap.
What did Steve Jobs actually do for anybody other than middle class white hipsters?
They're the people running the media show, ie. the fanbois. If you take them out of the equation, who thinks Steve was a hero?
Joking aside, If Bill can manage to kickstart this it might be the greatest thing anybody ever did for humanity. Future generations will look back on this as The Turning Point.
(assuming that it works anywhere near as well as it works on paper)