The researchers should've reviewed the state of the art first. They lumped together a whole bunch of different concepts and drew irrelevant conclusions. And their methodology was sloppy even given their assumptions-- but that's been discussed.
There's typesetting. There's a distinction between en-space and em-space. There's leading, a similar issue for vertical spacing between lines. There's ligatures, where some characters next to each other merge for readability. There's justification, where the space between words, sentences, and even letters varies just to make lines flush on both right and left. And others. Perhaps start by asking yourself, what would \LaTeX do.
Then there's those of us who type mostly in fixed-width fonts. For me, that's mostly because I code a lot. But when I write a long bit of text I will often write it in a fixed-width font just so I can use a decent editor, then copy+paste. Yes, I consistently double-space! because it's the only way to make fixed-width fonts have a readable sentence separator when I write comments and inline documentation. (And yes, that lower case "b" in "because" after the bang and space is proper. I'll leave the research to you.)
So no, the original article doesn't even ask a valid question.
* High contrast theme is even less high contrast than the prior iteration. In the list of emails, read emails have a slight grey tinge compared to the blinding white of unread emails.
* Zooming to 200% changes the list of emails from one line to two lines, even with compact density setting.
* Changing the theme doesn't change the blinding white background of emails. Go to the dark or terminal theme, let your eyes adjust, then try to read an email. Instant retina burn.
It's like they're progressively trying to sabotage usability ever more with each UI iteration. Google, please bring back the original, even if just as a theme.
I guess I'm going to have to find a real email application again and use imap. Gmail was wonderful when it first came out, but now it's just sad.
If I were to wear a watch, I'd like to be able to comfortably wear it while sleeping. I'd like it to record my vitals. I hear variation in sleep vitals is a pretty good way to detect illness early on.
Maybe it could vibrate at me when I snore, before it wakes my bed partner. Or vibrate to wake me in the morning, since I can apparently sleep though any noise. Hey maybe my bed could be one big charging mat!
That only applies when transparency is not a competing security mechanism.
In this case, transparency protects from institutional and insider attacks on the system of self-governance. Obscurity simply protects the mechanism from observation. One must ask which is more important.
What's with the guards by the vending machines in terminals? What would happen if I insisted on using the vending machines?
The airports I fly through have nooks with vending machines. When I go through (always day or early evening), there's always a guard. I tried to use the vending machines a couple times and was told "no" and they're only for when the shops are closed.
What goes? Whose policy is it? Do the shop vendors pay separately for this extra protection?
While I'm sure the Corporate Parents of slashdot and linked in are in all sorts of rage and feeling dirty and used, think of the users. As a user of both, I'm certainly displeased.
A virtual protest may be asynchronous, but could go on for quite some time. It could be one more thing encouraging the less corrupt elements to help reign in such abuses.
They won't have anymore telecommuters. One of our workers awhile back was resident in pakistan. No way are we going to let our data over the wire in the clear, so we can't hire from there anymore.
I can only imagine the discussion that preceded the writing: Let's trick those zealots into trading their core values of freedom and openness for hierarchy and control by dangling shiny irrelevancies in front of them. Then we'll have have fewer targets and might gain some traction. Sure why not, everything else has failed.
He was asking for X libraries, not an X server. He's covered. No non-embedded distro will ship without such.
In X-land, the server is what talks to your display device on behalf of your other programs. The server manages the scarce resource. The clients bribe the server for access.
More to the point (for me) is a screen that doesn't burn my eyes when I read in bed in preparation for sleep. Matte helps for that too, of course.
Why hasn't pixel qi taken over the lcd display market? I want big ones for coding (desktop) and little ones for phone and medium ones for tablets and laptops.
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In fairness, Congress is suppose to be the representatives of consumers while listening to the input from interested third party experts.
s/consumers/CITIZENS/
I just want a way to replace one or more of my monitors with a heads up display. Will it do that?
The researchers should've reviewed the state of the art first. They lumped together a whole bunch of different concepts and drew irrelevant conclusions. And their methodology was sloppy even given their assumptions-- but that's been discussed.
There's typesetting. There's a distinction between en-space and em-space. There's leading, a similar issue for vertical spacing between lines. There's ligatures, where some characters next to each other merge for readability. There's justification, where the space between words, sentences, and even letters varies just to make lines flush on both right and left. And others. Perhaps start by asking yourself, what would \LaTeX do.
Then there's those of us who type mostly in fixed-width fonts. For me, that's mostly because I code a lot. But when I write a long bit of text I will often write it in a fixed-width font just so I can use a decent editor, then copy+paste. Yes, I consistently double-space! because it's the only way to make fixed-width fonts have a readable sentence separator when I write comments and inline documentation. (And yes, that lower case "b" in "because" after the bang and space is proper. I'll leave the research to you.)
So no, the original article doesn't even ask a valid question.
Also:
* High contrast theme is even less high contrast than the prior iteration. In the list of emails, read emails have a slight grey tinge compared to the blinding white of unread emails.
* Zooming to 200% changes the list of emails from one line to two lines, even with compact density setting.
* Changing the theme doesn't change the blinding white background of emails. Go to the dark or terminal theme, let your eyes adjust, then try to read an email. Instant retina burn.
It's like they're progressively trying to sabotage usability ever more with each UI iteration. Google, please bring back the original, even if just as a theme.
I guess I'm going to have to find a real email application again and use imap. Gmail was wonderful when it first came out, but now it's just sad.
Permit telecommuting. We're out here.
Telecommuting isn't for everybody, or even sensible for every position. But it works for far more than is generally permitted.
If I were to wear a watch, I'd like to be able to comfortably wear it while sleeping. I'd like it to record my vitals. I hear variation in sleep vitals is a pretty good way to detect illness early on.
Maybe it could vibrate at me when I snore, before it wakes my bed partner. Or vibrate to wake me in the morning, since I can apparently sleep though any noise. Hey maybe my bed could be one big charging mat!
But I don't like to wear a watch, so never mind.
I was at an event last weekend that had a photo booth. Before using it, you had to sign a waiver letting them use the photo for whatever they want.
Who owns the scan of you in this case?
That only applies when transparency is not a competing security mechanism.
In this case, transparency protects from institutional and insider attacks on the system of self-governance. Obscurity simply protects the mechanism from observation. One must ask which is more important.
What's with the guards by the vending machines in terminals? What would happen if I insisted on using the vending machines?
The airports I fly through have nooks with vending machines. When I go through (always day or early evening), there's always a guard. I tried to use the vending machines a couple times and was told "no" and they're only for when the shops are closed.
What goes? Whose policy is it? Do the shop vendors pay separately for this extra protection?
While I'm sure the Corporate Parents of slashdot and linked in are in all sorts of rage and feeling dirty and used, think of the users. As a user of both, I'm certainly displeased.
A virtual protest may be asynchronous, but could go on for quite some time. It could be one more thing encouraging the less corrupt elements to help reign in such abuses.
Does that mean Pixel Qi dead?
I've been looking forward for years for their displays to go mainstream.
Do you really want me to pull out the buggy whip argument?
Yes. Here, I'll do it for you. DRM is today's buggy whip manufacturers' mechanism for forcing the buggy whip to stay in use.
Watch this TED video for some hints about what's going on beyond the desperate measures of the Content Industrial Machine.
I'm pretty sure that stuff like this only occurs to people who battle such urges in their own life.
I suppose he must get off on such things, so naturally thinks everybody else must too.
Same goes for most other moral crusaders.
What's a sane response to this sort of thing? I like this one: http://cpontius.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/fear-of-the-dark/ .
The proprietary extensions were there before, all the way back to mysql ab. You just had to pay for them before.
From the article, they are enterprise monitor and enterprise backup. Backup at least has been reimplemented by percona as xtrabackup.
They won't have anymore telecommuters. One of our workers awhile back was resident in pakistan. No way are we going to let our data over the wire in the clear, so we can't hire from there anymore.
I can only imagine the discussion that preceded the writing: Let's trick those zealots into trading their core values of freedom and openness for hierarchy and control by dangling shiny irrelevancies in front of them. Then we'll have have fewer targets and might gain some traction. Sure why not, everything else has failed.
It's persecution.
The mechanism / perpetrator just happen to be called "prosecution".
That's "white list" to you. :(
Have they addressed subtitles for streaming yet? In particular, subtitles for the hearing impaired: english subtitles for english language shows.
Also, are they ever going to support linux?
If they addressed those issues, I'd be happy to use streaming rather than disks.
He was asking for X libraries, not an X server. He's covered. No non-embedded distro will ship without such.
In X-land, the server is what talks to your display device on behalf of your other programs. The server manages the scarce resource. The clients bribe the server for access.
More to the point (for me) is a screen that doesn't burn my eyes when I read in bed in preparation for sleep. Matte helps for that too, of course.
Why hasn't pixel qi taken over the lcd display market? I want big ones for coding (desktop) and little ones for phone and medium ones for tablets and laptops.
Please?
Block by country dynamically: https://github.com/bugi/iptables-by-country
It's a bit cobbled together, but it works for me.
Hurray, they finally understand that their claims aren't falsifiable. Unfortunately, they still miss the point.
Obvious reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Six_(The_Prisoner)#I_am_not_a_number.2C_I_am_a_free_man