I see your point, but if anyone trying to understand physics is under the impression that there's a molasses-like 'ether' filling the subatomic interstices then no amount of explaining the creation of scalar fields to maintain symmetry in other equations is going to help them. I think you're being too picky in the interest of talking down to people. Nothing in that comic came as a surprise to me (I already understood the principle of the conjecture, just not the maths behind it), but I can assure you that even if my grasp were much more limited I would not walk away from that comic thinking there is molasses in a vacuum.
If you believe in one particular God then the only body of evidence you see as credible (the Bible) says that in fact you should go out of your way to enslave anyone who disagrees with you.
Yep, I closed my account there. This new site will simply be a replication of any router manuals you may have laying around. It will deliberately go out of its way to discourage any form of discussion or even the documenting of useful general techniques, because it will be too 'open ended'.
I hate SO with a passion and I used to enjoy it a lot. Good luck to them with the new arm though.
All arguments about this particular situation aside, it's stupid to point your finger at a particular technology company and say "bad privacy!!1!".
Your credit card company knows what you buy and where you live. The checkout chick at Woolies/Kmart/Whatever can know your name when you hand over the card. eBay has a record of everything you've purchased (and when, and from whom...). Anyone at all you've dealt with could be storing your previous address. Need I go on?
...and don't even get me started on store loyalty cards!
Track changes is only required when working in an MS format. For any other half reasonable file format, Beyond Compare and SVN will track your changes BETTER than any office suite.
What was the 'feature' that we all needed the ribbon for? Having less efficient access to a completely disorganised collection of newly skinned buttons?
To look at the analogy another way, MS Office charges you a higher rate so that it can turn up in a gay robe and wig, whereas Open Office rocks up in jeans and t-shirt but does 99% of the same things for far less money.
But for those of us who can spell and just want to type a letter in less than the time it would take with a pen and paper, ALL of these products are just bloatware.
Stop trying to confuse the issue by citing all the features that normal people haven't cared about in the last 20 years and never will.
" means higher quality graphics, more organic user interfaces "
How awesome! When I'm working with a spreadsheet I always wish it was more organic instead of just a boring old grid. I think I would be way more productive if it were organic.
And yeah, I'm sure we've all been there - you go to click a button or type into a form and notice how the graphics quality is so low - it's like they don't know that I have BluRay on my computer or something, even though VLC is installed and can do 1080p.
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Just like the Windows 7/Vista version, VLC will again prove itself the most useless media player available by still not having V-Sync.
Only on Slashdot is the inability to load malware-riddled apps on your phone viewed as a negative...
You must be new here.
that anyone would use Windows for embedded/realtime. Is it easy to discover this for other makes of cars?
Overanalyse analogies much?
I see your point, but if anyone trying to understand physics is under the impression that there's a molasses-like 'ether' filling the subatomic interstices then no amount of explaining the creation of scalar fields to maintain symmetry in other equations is going to help them. I think you're being too picky in the interest of talking down to people. Nothing in that comic came as a surprise to me (I already understood the principle of the conjecture, just not the maths behind it), but I can assure you that even if my grasp were much more limited I would not walk away from that comic thinking there is molasses in a vacuum.
That's disingenuous.
Hello pot meet kettle. I'm pretty sure the slaves weren't OK with it.
Was it an insurrection? Can you claim that when God hadn't invented democracy yet?
If you believe in one particular God then the only body of evidence you see as credible (the Bible) says that in fact you should go out of your way to enslave anyone who disagrees with you.
Cool. That means art, which is less mathematically/logically tractible than philosophy, must be of a higher order than philosophy.
Throw away your iPhones people, we don't need scientific knowledge. The best thing you could look at is a hand painted icon of the Madonna.
So educate us. Tell us one of the axioms of the 'science' of making shit up.
I never actually mentioned what "my construction of God" was
I didn't mention what my construction of Santa Claus was. Do you still believe in that?
Signing in for the first time in years. This is where you've been sucked in by the hype.
The classic design in 2014? Not too bad. The classic design in 2018? Probably not going to cut it.
No, the classic design in 2014 is green with text and it is great. In 2018 if it is still green with text it will not be any worse than it is today.
Yep, I closed my account there. This new site will simply be a replication of any router manuals you may have laying around. It will deliberately go out of its way to discourage any form of discussion or even the documenting of useful general techniques, because it will be too 'open ended'.
I hate SO with a passion and I used to enjoy it a lot. Good luck to them with the new arm though.
That old guy in the blue top in the foreground looks way too happy. I reckon it was him.
This is ridiculous. Are we seriously saying that the suspect description for a bombing at a marathon is anyone who had a backpack?
The site in question tries to load content from no less than 13 other domains. How were people stupid enough to use it in the first place?
Or better, we flash a custom ROM that lets the phone run for weeks on standby, and remember to plug it in for half an hour sometime in that period.
All arguments about this particular situation aside, it's stupid to point your finger at a particular technology company and say "bad privacy!!1!".
Your credit card company knows what you buy and where you live. The checkout chick at Woolies/Kmart/Whatever can know your name when you hand over the card. eBay has a record of everything you've purchased (and when, and from whom...). Anyone at all you've dealt with could be storing your previous address. Need I go on?
...and don't even get me started on store loyalty cards!
Track changes is only required when working in an MS format. For any other half reasonable file format, Beyond Compare and SVN will track your changes BETTER than any office suite.
What was the 'feature' that we all needed the ribbon for? Having less efficient access to a completely disorganised collection of newly skinned buttons?
These.
Piss me off no end. Learn grammar and go back to Reddit.
To look at the analogy another way, MS Office charges you a higher rate so that it can turn up in a gay robe and wig, whereas Open Office rocks up in jeans and t-shirt but does 99% of the same things for far less money.
But for those of us who can spell and just want to type a letter in less than the time it would take with a pen and paper, ALL of these products are just bloatware.
Stop trying to confuse the issue by citing all the features that normal people haven't cared about in the last 20 years and never will.
Ummm yeah, we're talking about the other way around. Can you open my PPTX resume with star-wipes on your 13 year old platform/software?
..that haven't been working since at least RC2.
This annoys me because the interface is such a f*ck*rse to operate with the mouse.
" means higher quality graphics, more organic user interfaces "
How awesome! When I'm working with a spreadsheet I always wish it was more organic instead of just a boring old grid. I think I would be way more productive if it were organic.
And yeah, I'm sure we've all been there - you go to click a button or type into a form and notice how the graphics quality is so low - it's like they don't know that I have BluRay on my computer or something, even though VLC is installed and can do 1080p.