Fact is, collisions of higher energies occur in the upper atmosphere with a much higher frequency than they will in the LHC, and have been for billions of years.
Well why don't they just build a cloud chamber up in the atmosphere then?
Wow, that sounded a lot better in my head.:-) Never mind.
It's not really that simple. I have a major red green problem, but I can see raw red (#ff0000) and green (#00ff00) just fine when set that way by a computer. I can see the red Christmas ball on the green tree as red and green. It's when the red and green begin to approach each other on the way to yellow (#ffff00) where problems arise. For example, I have a hellish time with green and red LEDs from a distance. Color me happy when blue LEDs showed up.;-)
I think it's a resolution problem, because if I get my eye right up to the LEDs I'm all, oh, that one is red and that one is green, but from across the room they both look about #a0a000
I actually do GUI work. I add a little blue to the green (#00ff40) and that helps. I think that's roughly what they do with traffic lights.
I *have* seen recognition of it in some games. For example, I played an RPG recently (Star Ocean, I think?) that, when you compared two pieces of equipment, worse stats were red and better stats were blue, not green.
and what I hear (and see) is that the stuff people get all gooey and doe-eyed about tends to be the flashes in the pan while the real game changers just sort of wander in and quietly integrate themselves. Sometimes the latter is widely dismissed and criticized in the early stages.
They use this JS crap at my company for training materials. What could be simple HTML links are giant Javascript functions that frequently just sit there inert when you click them. Reload the page and suddenly they work. It's hit or miss, and the same code can act differently in the same browser from moment to moment. It's also a major reason this company is still shackled to IE6.
I don't have a link handy, but some of the safety suggestions were really inane, like handrails to avoid slipping on muddy slopes (where the muddy slope was the whole point of the exercise).
What is this? Wall Street? That's the only place I know of where when something stops growing, because infinite growth of any human enterprise is not possible in reality, it's a signal to mark the time of death and run screaming into the hills. Oh noes! Company XYZ's growth is not going to be 50% a year forever! They're projecting 49.9%! Sell! Sell! Oh woes is we! Buy more bad loan products! Those are safer!
I would have thought hitting a level of stability in something like Wikipedia would be a good thing.
Ha! I thought about contributing to some articles relevant to my engineering work, but when I read some of the discussions that went on forever about obscure grammatical points or trying to decide between two perfectly (and probably equally) valid words, I ran (clicked) away very quickly.
I love Wiki, but it's the land of the obsessive compulsive. I'm terrified to even read the discussion for the article on the TV show Monk.;-)
I've heard of the issue. If you were truly interested you would have gone to Google. Another one is whites born and raised in South Africa wondering if they should check the "African American" box on forms here in the States. Blacks immigrating from Haiti or elsewhere in the Caribbean run into a similar puzzler.
Have you been encased in a cement bunker for 20 years? "PC" is not just about avoiding overt insults or, say, the fact that we have condom ads on television now with a guy getting his junk buffed in a wind tunnel. When recent polls in the polls in the UK indicate that 80% of the population is tired of political correctness, you have a real problem, not a generation gap.
When people complain about PC, they mean the sort that causes valid or even scientific discussion from even taking place because some hypersensitive miseryshit somewhere might be offended.
It's the sort of PC that chastises a kid in a Halloween pirate costume for wearing an eye patch because it's offensive to the disabled. Oops, I mean differently-abled! Sorry! Don't sue me for causing emotional distress, please! It's curious they never seem to ask an actual other-abled person. No, wait, "other" sounds exclusionary doesn't it? Argh! The low seas of PC be treacherous, me mateys!
Political correctness also seems to be covering hypersensitivity to safety, so you have it applied to cases where trapeze artists are required to wear hard hats or the Army is told to make their training courses safer to the point of, well, pointlessness. That seems odd to me, but the street finds its own uses for words, much like hacker is used in place of cracker by the general population. Language evolves- deal with it.
I get that- I wouldn't want to type all day on a touch keyboard, for example- but I find audio clues, like a click, to be almost as good with a display you only need to deal with on occasion. It's a tradeoff.
Slashdot Mirror
Reading ability also increases with shoe size.
it's a bit of a white elehpant for them since the toner is so expensive
Not to mention they'd then have all that useless toner since it's an inkjet printer!
So, by way of implication, they are hiring less than brilliant people now? Awesome! Where do I send a resume?
Not to mention you need to know which man page to invoke which is *REAL* great for beginners.
Single-chip Cloud Computer
Wow. That actually caused physical pain in my frontal lobe. Way to live the corporate buzzword stereotype, Intel.
Fact is, collisions of higher energies occur in the upper atmosphere with a much higher frequency than they will in the LHC, and have been for billions of years.
Well why don't they just build a cloud chamber up in the atmosphere then?
Wow, that sounded a lot better in my head. :-) Never mind.
It's not really that simple. I have a major red green problem, but I can see raw red (#ff0000) and green (#00ff00) just fine when set that way by a computer. I can see the red Christmas ball on the green tree as red and green. It's when the red and green begin to approach each other on the way to yellow (#ffff00) where problems arise. For example, I have a hellish time with green and red LEDs from a distance. Color me happy when blue LEDs showed up. ;-)
I think it's a resolution problem, because if I get my eye right up to the LEDs I'm all, oh, that one is red and that one is green, but from across the room they both look about #a0a000
I actually do GUI work. I add a little blue to the green (#00ff40) and that helps. I think that's roughly what they do with traffic lights.
I *have* seen recognition of it in some games. For example, I played an RPG recently (Star Ocean, I think?) that, when you compared two pieces of equipment, worse stats were red and better stats were blue, not green.
OK, how'd I wind up in Wonderland? Get me out of this thread! Halp!
I'll use the cloud when they actually store data up in the clouds. How cool would that be? Damn!
and what I hear (and see) is that the stuff people get all gooey and doe-eyed about tends to be the flashes in the pan while the real game changers just sort of wander in and quietly integrate themselves. Sometimes the latter is widely dismissed and criticized in the early stages.
Though GP is an idiot
Why, because if I was going to target a platform for development, I'd just invest in an adequate machine and be done with it? Blow me.
They use this JS crap at my company for training materials. What could be simple HTML links are giant Javascript functions that frequently just sit there inert when you click them. Reload the page and suddenly they work. It's hit or miss, and the same code can act differently in the same browser from moment to moment. It's also a major reason this company is still shackled to IE6.
Not to mention it's another "my time is of no value" story. Why not buy a used Mac and start developing?
Well, I need some breakfast. Excuse me while I go raise a pig and a chicken and sow some wheat.
Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars.
It's overrated and the lodgings really suck.
Is it transparent?
Grossly speaking there are three types of criminals: smart and dumb.
What's the third type? Or is that the "grossly" part?
Handi-capable! :-)
I actually heard that on South Park first so I nearly laughed in the face of the person I heard use it in all seriousness. Perhaps I should have.
Then I talk to a guy *in* wheelchair and he happily calls himself a cripple. Go figure.
I don't have a link handy, but some of the safety suggestions were really inane, like handrails to avoid slipping on muddy slopes (where the muddy slope was the whole point of the exercise).
Stability in the number of editors, not in amount of content, which is what the debate was over, supergenius.
What is this? Wall Street? That's the only place I know of where when something stops growing, because infinite growth of any human enterprise is not possible in reality, it's a signal to mark the time of death and run screaming into the hills. Oh noes! Company XYZ's growth is not going to be 50% a year forever! They're projecting 49.9%! Sell! Sell! Oh woes is we! Buy more bad loan products! Those are safer!
I would have thought hitting a level of stability in something like Wikipedia would be a good thing.
Ha! I thought about contributing to some articles relevant to my engineering work, but when I read some of the discussions that went on forever about obscure grammatical points or trying to decide between two perfectly (and probably equally) valid words, I ran (clicked) away very quickly.
I love Wiki, but it's the land of the obsessive compulsive. I'm terrified to even read the discussion for the article on the TV show Monk. ;-)
I've heard of the issue. If you were truly interested you would have gone to Google. Another one is whites born and raised in South Africa wondering if they should check the "African American" box on forms here in the States. Blacks immigrating from Haiti or elsewhere in the Caribbean run into a similar puzzler.
Have you been encased in a cement bunker for 20 years? "PC" is not just about avoiding overt insults or, say, the fact that we have condom ads on television now with a guy getting his junk buffed in a wind tunnel. When recent polls in the polls in the UK indicate that 80% of the population is tired of political correctness, you have a real problem, not a generation gap.
When people complain about PC, they mean the sort that causes valid or even scientific discussion from even taking place because some hypersensitive miseryshit somewhere might be offended.
It's the sort of PC that chastises a kid in a Halloween pirate costume for wearing an eye patch because it's offensive to the disabled. Oops, I mean differently-abled! Sorry! Don't sue me for causing emotional distress, please! It's curious they never seem to ask an actual other-abled person. No, wait, "other" sounds exclusionary doesn't it? Argh! The low seas of PC be treacherous, me mateys!
Political correctness also seems to be covering hypersensitivity to safety, so you have it applied to cases where trapeze artists are required to wear hard hats or the Army is told to make their training courses safer to the point of, well, pointlessness. That seems odd to me, but the street finds its own uses for words, much like hacker is used in place of cracker by the general population. Language evolves- deal with it.
No, *you* read that into I said. Chill out a bit. We're not debating abortion.
I get that- I wouldn't want to type all day on a touch keyboard, for example- but I find audio clues, like a click, to be almost as good with a display you only need to deal with on occasion. It's a tradeoff.