The problem with that was that it gave really bad, but accurate advice, like travel at 12km/h or 80km/h. This is where the limit is 60. So they changed it to only display speeds below and close to the limit and then it was even more useless.
What I don't understand is why those low and high values weren't excluded from the beginning. What were they thinking? Deploying a system that advises people to break the speed limit or go ridiculously slow? Shouldn't that have been anticipated from the outset?
Then reevaluate your line of thought. I Deftly use Comic San because it is website, and because it the only one that resembles hand writing, and is highly legible.
So, you're an exception that proves the rule. I don't think the typical Comic Sans user is putting that much thought into it.
because everyone i've seen with a new pc has vista
And they're all miserable, right? I've seen people come into work who have been suckered into buying these leviathan laptops with Vista, and they are constantly having problems, and regret the purchase.
It's probably the people who have actually bought Vista who would be most tempted to switch, rather than those still on XP. Of course, having just bought their white elephant laptop, they might not have the funds to do so yet.
Wow, Microsoft is really trying to run away from Vista as quickly as possible. Could they rush this this to market any more quickly? How long has Vista been out, and has there been a major new version of Windows ever released in such a short time frame?
I think in their desperate rush, they are likely to make the same mistakes again. Will MS ever take the effort to rebuild the system properly?
It arouses much ire, because it is often inappropriately used. I've seen Comic Sans used to promote serious academic conferences. While popular doesn't mean bad, it also doesn't mean good.
Why should we be teaching software packages at all? Students should be able to learn to use those tools themselves. We should be teaching them how to learn, how to read the instruction manual, if you will.
My clients pay me; they do not "supervise" me. When I did work under supervision (1974-1983) it was the supervision of people who did exactly what I did but had been doing it longer. That is the only kind of supervision I could accept. It was one of the main reasons I went into a "profession".
This only really works because your business is 100% about practicing law. That's not the case for many places, and especially IT workers. Every decent-sized company has IT staff, even if their business is not about IT. One might be the IT staff for a company that produces canned peaches. It's only in companies that are solely IT focused that you could expect all of your superiors to have intimate knowledge of the field.
His Holiness merely needs to look inside his heart, and ask himself; "What is the sound of one server booting?" and then he will know the answer to which platform he should choose.
Personally, I think he should go with Amiga. After all, Guru Meditation is what the Lama is all about.
If people would just stop buying RIAA-produced crap (and stop stealing it!), the problem would eventually solve itself.
That doesn't really work. Sure, stop crap releases from artists signed to a RIAA label. But that doesn't stop sales for the good artists signed to RIAA labels, of which there are plenty.
Do you really mean "stop buying crap and good releases from RIAA-signed artists"?
If you want something visionary, how about supporting large scale consumer adoption of small regional airports and new, small advanced planes that take far fewer people but connect small airports all over with mass transit in each city?
Because of the massive fuel inefficiency? In an age of energy insecurity and warfare, your idea goes in exactly the wrong direction. It's like saying "Global Warming? Bring it on! Terrorism and political instability? Hell yeah!"
If passenger rail travel were economically viable here, it wouldn't take tax money to keep it alive.
You know, there's a difference between "economically viable" and profitable. If the system can operate sustainably with tax inputs, it's economically viable. Since when was the government or taxation not a part of our economic system?
Furthermore, even if something doesn't make a profit, doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. There are reasons to provide public services other than profit. In fact, profit should be the least important consideration when it comes to public services - they are about serving the public, not making someone fat and wealthy.
If you're navigating under street lights, you aren't going to be using your night-vision anyway. Isn't the monochromatic nature of sodiums a major downside? It would work against things like identifying the color of a vehicle or clothing in the event of a crime - a pretty important feature for street lighting, I would think.
You might have missed the last 25 years where Macs claim to be more user friendly and cater to a less technologically inclined user-base
Since when is user-friendliness only for less technically-inclined users? It benefits power users just as much, if not more, because they do more complex tasks, more often.
As for the composition of the Mac user base, from my observations, even the least technically inclined users tend to be much more aware about technology and how to use their systems than the typical Windows user in an office who calls the computer's housing "the hard drive" and everything revolves around Microsoft Word, as if it is the operating system.
While what you say it's true, taken in the context of Slashdot, it's a double standard. Whenever a trojan hits Windows, people are talking about how poorly designed Windows security is and how the user usually always runs as "administrator"
I don't think so. Slashdot doesn't report most Windows trojans at all. Windows is being hit by trojans every day, and we just say; "Meh, not worth reading an article about that" and get on with our day.
You're forgetting that Slashdot is populated with a majority of people who are left-of-center
This is complete and utter horseshit. Just try espousing socialism on slashdot and see how long you last. Hell, try simply posting a comment that is positive about workers' unions, and you'll be shot down within minutes.
Slashdot is rife with libertarians and conservatives. Saying it is majority left-wing is not very plausible. There might be plenty of mild liberals around - but that's just the same as normal life outside slashdot, where most people are mildly liberal or mildly conservative.
Being liberal these days hardly counts as "left wing" anyway.
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The problem with that was that it gave really bad, but accurate advice, like travel at 12km/h or 80km/h. This is where the limit is 60. So they changed it to only display speeds below and close to the limit and then it was even more useless.
What I don't understand is why those low and high values weren't excluded from the beginning. What were they thinking? Deploying a system that advises people to break the speed limit or go ridiculously slow? Shouldn't that have been anticipated from the outset?
Micro payments are terrible ideas, first because it violates basic net neutrality principles...
Methinks you have no idea what "net neutrality" actually means. What does paying to post on a forum have to do with net neutrality?
Then reevaluate your line of thought. I Deftly use Comic San because it is website, and because it the only one that resembles hand writing, and is highly legible.
So, you're an exception that proves the rule. I don't think the typical Comic Sans user is putting that much thought into it.
because everyone i've seen with a new pc has vista
And they're all miserable, right? I've seen people come into work who have been suckered into buying these leviathan laptops with Vista, and they are constantly having problems, and regret the purchase.
It's probably the people who have actually bought Vista who would be most tempted to switch, rather than those still on XP. Of course, having just bought their white elephant laptop, they might not have the funds to do so yet.
Wow, Microsoft is really trying to run away from Vista as quickly as possible. Could they rush this this to market any more quickly? How long has Vista been out, and has there been a major new version of Windows ever released in such a short time frame?
I think in their desperate rush, they are likely to make the same mistakes again. Will MS ever take the effort to rebuild the system properly?
There's a version III of the Wii already? What happened to version II? And why would they use Comic Sans as the system's typeface?
That's because it's the only web safe font [ampsoft.net] that comes close to looking like hand writing.
I highly doubt that the people who use Comic Sans are considering the web safety of fonts, or even know what that means.
And a bolognese symbol for the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
I can't hear you! Can you please reformat with Comic Sans?
It arouses much ire, because it is often inappropriately used. I've seen Comic Sans used to promote serious academic conferences. While popular doesn't mean bad, it also doesn't mean good.
Why should we be teaching software packages at all? Students should be able to learn to use those tools themselves. We should be teaching them how to learn, how to read the instruction manual, if you will.
My clients pay me; they do not "supervise" me. When I did work under supervision (1974-1983) it was the supervision of people who did exactly what I did but had been doing it longer. That is the only kind of supervision I could accept. It was one of the main reasons I went into a "profession".
This only really works because your business is 100% about practicing law. That's not the case for many places, and especially IT workers. Every decent-sized company has IT staff, even if their business is not about IT. One might be the IT staff for a company that produces canned peaches. It's only in companies that are solely IT focused that you could expect all of your superiors to have intimate knowledge of the field.
That sure is some type o' dong.
Your windows install has at least been verified by a known party.
Yes, a known incompetent party, which has very little concern for security or the vetting of source code, but has rather different interests foremost.
His Holiness merely needs to look inside his heart, and ask himself; "What is the sound of one server booting?" and then he will know the answer to which platform he should choose. Personally, I think he should go with Amiga. After all, Guru Meditation is what the Lama is all about.
If people would just stop buying RIAA-produced crap (and stop stealing it!), the problem would eventually solve itself.
That doesn't really work. Sure, stop crap releases from artists signed to a RIAA label. But that doesn't stop sales for the good artists signed to RIAA labels, of which there are plenty.
Do you really mean "stop buying crap and good releases from RIAA-signed artists"?
If you want something visionary, how about supporting large scale consumer adoption of small regional airports and new, small advanced planes that take far fewer people but connect small airports all over with mass transit in each city?
Because of the massive fuel inefficiency? In an age of energy insecurity and warfare, your idea goes in exactly the wrong direction. It's like saying "Global Warming? Bring it on! Terrorism and political instability? Hell yeah!"
If passenger rail travel were economically viable here, it wouldn't take tax money to keep it alive.
You know, there's a difference between "economically viable" and profitable. If the system can operate sustainably with tax inputs, it's economically viable. Since when was the government or taxation not a part of our economic system?
Furthermore, even if something doesn't make a profit, doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. There are reasons to provide public services other than profit. In fact, profit should be the least important consideration when it comes to public services - they are about serving the public, not making someone fat and wealthy.
Especially if you just built your own CNC milling machine. ;3
Screw that, my CNC milling machine built itself.
If you're navigating under street lights, you aren't going to be using your night-vision anyway. Isn't the monochromatic nature of sodiums a major downside? It would work against things like identifying the color of a vehicle or clothing in the event of a crime - a pretty important feature for street lighting, I would think.
You might have missed the last 25 years where Macs claim to be more user friendly and cater to a less technologically inclined user-base
Since when is user-friendliness only for less technically-inclined users? It benefits power users just as much, if not more, because they do more complex tasks, more often.
As for the composition of the Mac user base, from my observations, even the least technically inclined users tend to be much more aware about technology and how to use their systems than the typical Windows user in an office who calls the computer's housing "the hard drive" and everything revolves around Microsoft Word, as if it is the operating system.
While what you say it's true, taken in the context of Slashdot, it's a double standard. Whenever a trojan hits Windows, people are talking about how poorly designed Windows security is and how the user usually always runs as "administrator"
I don't think so. Slashdot doesn't report most Windows trojans at all. Windows is being hit by trojans every day, and we just say; "Meh, not worth reading an article about that" and get on with our day.
You're forgetting that Slashdot is populated with a majority of people who are left-of-center
This is complete and utter horseshit. Just try espousing socialism on slashdot and see how long you last. Hell, try simply posting a comment that is positive about workers' unions, and you'll be shot down within minutes.
Slashdot is rife with libertarians and conservatives. Saying it is majority left-wing is not very plausible. There might be plenty of mild liberals around - but that's just the same as normal life outside slashdot, where most people are mildly liberal or mildly conservative.
Being liberal these days hardly counts as "left wing" anyway.
Libertarianism in a nutshell is opposing the government putting a gun to people's head.
And allowing corporations and other private interests to put a gun to your head, instead.
I don't see what this has to do with living on one's parent money.
Because being wealthy gives a head-start to you being the one that can hold the gun.
No, those people are called assholes.
That's redundant. He already referred to them as libertarians, so why do you repeat the point?