The solution to that problem is to not provide the user with an OK button. A Cancel button would make sense in this case, but I suspect that single button dialogs are also likely to get auto-clicked, leaving the user wondering where that document went (since they didn't read the note that the document was bad). I propose the dialog have two buttons, "Cancel" and "Oh Crap".
For certain values of "better". You wouldn't believe the stuff I've had to reject from such departments: confusing Columbia with Colombia, introducing spelling errors into the copy, confusing plural and possessive forms, using twelve different typefaces in a 1.8x4 inch space, messing with the company logo, you name it. Such a department has to be kept on a short leash. Always get a proof before the ad runs and make sure there's plenty of time to correct things before the ad runs.
Yes, there shouldn't be a need for X11 running KDE on OSX. I've been following SVN, using it for some little projects for a while now and when I run these programs on the Mac, X11 does not start. As for real KDE apps, aside from the expected occasional not working (hey, it's not like there has been a stable release, just development snapshots, so a certain amount of breakage in the apps is expected) the main irritation is KDED, which sticks an icon in the dock (somewhat reasonable as it gives a way to quit without going to the command line) and hides the menu bar when it is active. Note: The build on my Mac is a little out of date, so these issues might be fixed with a more recent build.
It already does happen. We have an organization in town that's a partnership between one of the local universities and a local economic development corporation. Already (they have been operating for a few years now) they have gotten patents donated and got them to startups which in some cases are starting to get to market. When a business gets big enough, they start to get ideas that they won't follow through on because it might only be a million dollar a year idea. It just isn't worth the investment in developing the patent into a product, especially if the patent is in an area that they don't do business in. It isn't worth it for big business, but in the hands of a startup a million dollars a year might be pretty good.
Yes. You hash your copy, go to the Internet cafe and check that your hash matches the hash of what you thought you were getting. It isn't fool proof, but it probably is good enough.
At one time I agreed with this, but then I got my first Mac in a long time and noticed that Safari by default hides the status bar and the summary links are not showing the domain being linked to, so it seems it really is possible to just not know what the link is linking to until you click on it. Now I think there probably should be an indication of some sort when the link is not plain HTML.
Try reading all of my post before claiming that I haven't read the thread. Given your examples, I assumed you would be familiar with Dragon Quest games which tend to have weak slimes as the earliest monsters to level up on. These are directly comparable to the rats, bunnies, and small snakes under discussion. My claim was that this is a matter of execution; both good games and bad ones can have these very weak enemies. Getting rid of them is not going to do much to help a game that isn't fun. If you must have an example that involves snakes, rabbits, and rats, Final Fantasy XII has these in abundance, but I enjoyed that game and did not find the super-weak forms of these monsters detracting from the fun of the game. If you disagree with my point, reply with something of substance. If you're just going to get thrown by the first couple overly-pedantic statements in my earlier post (I did point out that you don't fight them as an admission that the presence of bunnies in most of the examples of games without bunnies did not dispute the point; sorry if that wasn't clear enough for you) or if you think I was bending this into a discussion that you would rather not get into, don't waste the reply and just let the mods -1 Offtopic it into oblivion if it really didn't have anything to do with this.
Sorry, but Xenosaga does indeed contain bunnies. I don't recall fighting them, but there was a bunny stalking quest in one of them. Star Ocean: Till the End of Time should count as a space RPG. Lots of bunnies in that as well, but there again, you aren't fighting them. Disgaea 2 had Usagi (bunny) reading the news. I think complaints about rats, bunnies, and snakes don't really address the fundamental issue. I'm certainly not disappointed that a Dragon Quest game has me fighting slimes at the beginning. The question is, "Is this game fun?" There are plenty of RPGs out there with bunnies, rats, and snakes that just aren't fun, but the problem here is not that there are bunnies, rats, and snakes. The problem is that the game is not fun. If the game is fun, then who cares about the bunnies?
i.) Nice if you're showing off, but most people popping in a movie want to start it at the beginning (or perhaps where they left off last time). ii.) Fantastic for anime, though some players are really annoying with multiple angles (anybody know how to get rid of that camera icon on the old Pioneer DVD players?) iii.) Absolutely.
I'd replace your point i. with: iv.) Usable for more than video. Computers had these things installed pretty early on, and though software wasn't widely available on DVD for a while, it seemed early on that this would become more common v.) Takes less shelf space than VHS vi.) Media doesn't degrade with multiple plays, no moving parts in the media to jam or break
In some cases, the government regulates business speech to the point that even telling the truth is not allowed. For example, suppose I buy an organic food product (say, tea) in a large quantity and repackage it to sell in the smaller quantities someone might buy. If I'm not certified for organic processing (yes, moving something from one bag to another is processing), that tea can no longer be called organic in the United States, even though nothing has been done to it that could possibly cause it to not be organic. Saying that it is organic is not allowed. Even the weaker and 100% true claim that it was certified as organically grown is not allowed. (see USDA National Organic Program)
It might look bad for the 4th quarter and although I would hope that investors are not so short sighted (yeah yeah, I know, institutionals), Sony doesn't need to decide if they will do a PS4 for at least a year or two. By that time Wallstreet and everybody else will better be able to judge the success or failure of the PS3 and Sony can work out what it wants to do with regard to future consoles.
If bills are made smaller, there's no need to change the cash registers. The smaller bills will still fit in the bins designed for larger bills. Vending machines will be where you'll have resistance. They're why we have such a stupid size for our current $1 coins. Personally, I'd still be in favor of multiple bill sizes and while we're at it, perhaps aesthetic considerations could go into the next bill redesign. Maybe we could have women on money that people use?
Have you taken a look at Qt recently? If I'm understanding your example correctly, that's fairly trivial in the Qt 4.x series as well. You can even customize them with CSS-like stylesheets.
I think you may just be too young. Before home computers were commonplace, there were these machines that were sort of like a computer, printer, monitor, and keyboard stuffed into the same box, but the computer part only ran primitive word processing software. It was a step up from the typewriter (saving, editing, printing multiple copies, keys generally didn't jam up), but not as expensive as a computer+monitor+printer+software. These were called word processors.
It's called being a bad neighbor. Suppose I have an unsecured wireless access point and neighbors close enough to see it. Suppose further that a neighbor uses it and I have a problem with that. So, I've gone through the trouble of figuring out who is accessing my WAP. The first thing I'd try is asking that person to please stop using my WAP. Hopefully that would work, but maybe the other person is a jerk who starts spouting nonsense about how the access point is open so it must be okay to use, even though I've just asked him to stop using it. My next step would be to take some step toward blocking access, perhaps by securing the WAP, setting up a MAC filter, or even just turning it off when I'm not using it (if I can figure out that somebody else is accessing my WAP and who it is, I can certainly do any of these). If he continues to access the WAP, then I might contact the authorities.
That would be an absentee ballot you're looking for. If you know you can't trust your voting machines, you should arrange to get one before election day. City hall or your local major party campaign headquarters should be able to help you get one.
Thankfully, I'll be voting somewhere that still uses paper ballots and permanent markers.
I've been on several flights since then, both domestic and international. It's been my observation that security procedures are inconsistent from airport to airport and apparently within the same airport depending on how busy things are. I haven't been really been subjected to much more than I was pre-9/11. There's the whole take off your shoes when going through security thing, but you can usually avoid that if you go to the airport extremely early in the day or extremely late at night when there aren't many people coming and going. And sometimes instead of handing your bags over at check-in, you have to carry them over to security which never makes you wait for them to finish (or even start) whatever they do with the bags. I've been picked for random searches a couple of times, but never if I'm wearing a suit and have my beard trimmed. These searches have one person going through the carry-on and another person waving the wand thingy around. I've never tried causing a fuss over that and they've never tried to pull anything that I would consider unreasonable. On one occasion someone from the National Guard pulled me aside during boarding (in the tube between the airport and the airplane) to ask me a couple of questions about the nature of my trip. That was for an international flight.
In the US, we like placebo security and for the most part that's all we get. In contrast, when I was going through the airport in Jimma, Ethiopia, my bag was opened and searched thoroughly (in my presence), every electronic device (camera, laptop, music player) had to be turned on (presumably to demonstrate that it wasn't a prop hiding explosives or something like that) which caused me a little trouble as the screen on my portable music player had broken during that trip and I no longer had ear buds for it. I even had to open up a cardboard tube containing a painting I was travelling with (this same tube was cause for question leaving Amsterdam. The woman at check-in asked, "It's not a gun, is it?" I told her what it was and asked if it would be scanned at security. She assured me that it would be). Much tighter security there, but they didn't make me take off my shoes.
Most things that are easier said than done, but the problem you describe is old and very well understood. Such a parser could easily be an assignment in a beginner programming class.
Sure there is. Personally, I hit my limit with 20 shots of espresso within 2 hours (why yes, I do get paid to drink coffee). You can also overdose on caffeine, but not just from drinking coffee.
It's true that with open source, someone could potentially find a flaw, not tell anybody about it, and then exploit that flaw to manipulate an election. Why would someone do that? Obviously to advance an agenda, either by getting a win for a particular candidate who supports that agenda (so you'd want to manipulate the votes in a sneaky way) or if your agenda is getting rid of these voting machines, producing results that are clearly absurd (landslide victory for the Stallman write in campaign). I think the former is more subversive and likely to have financial support either from the candidates themselves or organizations supporting those candidates. Given this, it is reasonable to assume that if you are going to fix the vote for the win, your opponent will too, which means you need to either escalate the fraud operation, increasing the risk such fraud will be exposed, or you need to prevent your opponent from taking advantage of the flaws by having them patched and using that labor you saved by not escalating to instead get out the vote.
I might also be way off in this analysis, but I think having the code open to public scrutiny and the hardware securely locked down (any potential tampering should be evident) would be the way to go if computers are used at all.
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The solution to that problem is to not provide the user with an OK button. A Cancel button would make sense in this case, but I suspect that single button dialogs are also likely to get auto-clicked, leaving the user wondering where that document went (since they didn't read the note that the document was bad). I propose the dialog have two buttons, "Cancel" and "Oh Crap".
For certain values of "better". You wouldn't believe the stuff I've had to reject from such departments: confusing Columbia with Colombia, introducing spelling errors into the copy, confusing plural and possessive forms, using twelve different typefaces in a 1.8x4 inch space, messing with the company logo, you name it. Such a department has to be kept on a short leash. Always get a proof before the ad runs and make sure there's plenty of time to correct things before the ad runs.
Yes, there shouldn't be a need for X11 running KDE on OSX. I've been following SVN, using it for some little projects for a while now and when I run these programs on the Mac, X11 does not start. As for real KDE apps, aside from the expected occasional not working (hey, it's not like there has been a stable release, just development snapshots, so a certain amount of breakage in the apps is expected) the main irritation is KDED, which sticks an icon in the dock (somewhat reasonable as it gives a way to quit without going to the command line) and hides the menu bar when it is active. Note: The build on my Mac is a little out of date, so these issues might be fixed with a more recent build.
It already does happen. We have an organization in town that's a partnership between one of the local universities and a local economic development corporation. Already (they have been operating for a few years now) they have gotten patents donated and got them to startups which in some cases are starting to get to market. When a business gets big enough, they start to get ideas that they won't follow through on because it might only be a million dollar a year idea. It just isn't worth the investment in developing the patent into a product, especially if the patent is in an area that they don't do business in. It isn't worth it for big business, but in the hands of a startup a million dollars a year might be pretty good.
Yes. You hash your copy, go to the Internet cafe and check that your hash matches the hash of what you thought you were getting. It isn't fool proof, but it probably is good enough.
At one time I agreed with this, but then I got my first Mac in a long time and noticed that Safari by default hides the status bar and the summary links are not showing the domain being linked to, so it seems it really is possible to just not know what the link is linking to until you click on it. Now I think there probably should be an indication of some sort when the link is not plain HTML.
Try reading all of my post before claiming that I haven't read the thread. Given your examples, I assumed you would be familiar with Dragon Quest games which tend to have weak slimes as the earliest monsters to level up on. These are directly comparable to the rats, bunnies, and small snakes under discussion. My claim was that this is a matter of execution; both good games and bad ones can have these very weak enemies. Getting rid of them is not going to do much to help a game that isn't fun. If you must have an example that involves snakes, rabbits, and rats, Final Fantasy XII has these in abundance, but I enjoyed that game and did not find the super-weak forms of these monsters detracting from the fun of the game. If you disagree with my point, reply with something of substance. If you're just going to get thrown by the first couple overly-pedantic statements in my earlier post (I did point out that you don't fight them as an admission that the presence of bunnies in most of the examples of games without bunnies did not dispute the point; sorry if that wasn't clear enough for you) or if you think I was bending this into a discussion that you would rather not get into, don't waste the reply and just let the mods -1 Offtopic it into oblivion if it really didn't have anything to do with this.
Sorry, but Xenosaga does indeed contain bunnies. I don't recall fighting them, but there was a bunny stalking quest in one of them. Star Ocean: Till the End of Time should count as a space RPG. Lots of bunnies in that as well, but there again, you aren't fighting them. Disgaea 2 had Usagi (bunny) reading the news. I think complaints about rats, bunnies, and snakes don't really address the fundamental issue. I'm certainly not disappointed that a Dragon Quest game has me fighting slimes at the beginning. The question is, "Is this game fun?" There are plenty of RPGs out there with bunnies, rats, and snakes that just aren't fun, but the problem here is not that there are bunnies, rats, and snakes. The problem is that the game is not fun. If the game is fun, then who cares about the bunnies?
Overall on D is right on the money, but...
i.) Nice if you're showing off, but most people popping in a movie want to start it at the beginning (or perhaps where they left off last time).
ii.) Fantastic for anime, though some players are really annoying with multiple angles (anybody know how to get rid of that camera icon on the old Pioneer DVD players?)
iii.) Absolutely.
I'd replace your point i. with:
iv.) Usable for more than video. Computers had these things installed pretty early on, and though software wasn't widely available on DVD for a while, it seemed early on that this would become more common
v.) Takes less shelf space than VHS
vi.) Media doesn't degrade with multiple plays, no moving parts in the media to jam or break
Who needs a filter? Grind the coffee fine enough and enough of the grounds sink to the bottom once you break the crust.
In some cases, the government regulates business speech to the point that even telling the truth is not allowed. For example, suppose I buy an organic food product (say, tea) in a large quantity and repackage it to sell in the smaller quantities someone might buy. If I'm not certified for organic processing (yes, moving something from one bag to another is processing), that tea can no longer be called organic in the United States, even though nothing has been done to it that could possibly cause it to not be organic. Saying that it is organic is not allowed. Even the weaker and 100% true claim that it was certified as organically grown is not allowed. (see USDA National Organic Program)
It might look bad for the 4th quarter and although I would hope that investors are not so short sighted (yeah yeah, I know, institutionals), Sony doesn't need to decide if they will do a PS4 for at least a year or two. By that time Wallstreet and everybody else will better be able to judge the success or failure of the PS3 and Sony can work out what it wants to do with regard to future consoles.
And here I was thinking you were going to link here.
If bills are made smaller, there's no need to change the cash registers. The smaller bills will still fit in the bins designed for larger bills. Vending machines will be where you'll have resistance. They're why we have such a stupid size for our current $1 coins. Personally, I'd still be in favor of multiple bill sizes and while we're at it, perhaps aesthetic considerations could go into the next bill redesign. Maybe we could have women on money that people use?
Have you taken a look at Qt recently? If I'm understanding your example correctly, that's fairly trivial in the Qt 4.x series as well. You can even customize them with CSS-like stylesheets.
I think you may just be too young. Before home computers were commonplace, there were these machines that were sort of like a computer, printer, monitor, and keyboard stuffed into the same box, but the computer part only ran primitive word processing software. It was a step up from the typewriter (saving, editing, printing multiple copies, keys generally didn't jam up), but not as expensive as a computer+monitor+printer+software. These were called word processors.
It's called being a bad neighbor. Suppose I have an unsecured wireless access point and neighbors close enough to see it. Suppose further that a neighbor uses it and I have a problem with that. So, I've gone through the trouble of figuring out who is accessing my WAP. The first thing I'd try is asking that person to please stop using my WAP. Hopefully that would work, but maybe the other person is a jerk who starts spouting nonsense about how the access point is open so it must be okay to use, even though I've just asked him to stop using it. My next step would be to take some step toward blocking access, perhaps by securing the WAP, setting up a MAC filter, or even just turning it off when I'm not using it (if I can figure out that somebody else is accessing my WAP and who it is, I can certainly do any of these). If he continues to access the WAP, then I might contact the authorities.
That would be an absentee ballot you're looking for. If you know you can't trust your voting machines, you should arrange to get one before election day. City hall or your local major party campaign headquarters should be able to help you get one.
Thankfully, I'll be voting somewhere that still uses paper ballots and permanent markers.
I've been on several flights since then, both domestic and international. It's been my observation that security procedures are inconsistent from airport to airport and apparently within the same airport depending on how busy things are. I haven't been really been subjected to much more than I was pre-9/11. There's the whole take off your shoes when going through security thing, but you can usually avoid that if you go to the airport extremely early in the day or extremely late at night when there aren't many people coming and going. And sometimes instead of handing your bags over at check-in, you have to carry them over to security which never makes you wait for them to finish (or even start) whatever they do with the bags. I've been picked for random searches a couple of times, but never if I'm wearing a suit and have my beard trimmed. These searches have one person going through the carry-on and another person waving the wand thingy around. I've never tried causing a fuss over that and they've never tried to pull anything that I would consider unreasonable. On one occasion someone from the National Guard pulled me aside during boarding (in the tube between the airport and the airplane) to ask me a couple of questions about the nature of my trip. That was for an international flight.
In the US, we like placebo security and for the most part that's all we get. In contrast, when I was going through the airport in Jimma, Ethiopia, my bag was opened and searched thoroughly (in my presence), every electronic device (camera, laptop, music player) had to be turned on (presumably to demonstrate that it wasn't a prop hiding explosives or something like that) which caused me a little trouble as the screen on my portable music player had broken during that trip and I no longer had ear buds for it. I even had to open up a cardboard tube containing a painting I was travelling with (this same tube was cause for question leaving Amsterdam. The woman at check-in asked, "It's not a gun, is it?" I told her what it was and asked if it would be scanned at security. She assured me that it would be). Much tighter security there, but they didn't make me take off my shoes.
Most things that are easier said than done, but the problem you describe is old and very well understood. Such a parser could easily be an assignment in a beginner programming class.
Sure there is. Personally, I hit my limit with 20 shots of espresso within 2 hours (why yes, I do get paid to drink coffee). You can also overdose on caffeine, but not just from drinking coffee.
No, I'm pretty sure Symbology is what they called magic in one of the Star Ocean games.
It's true that with open source, someone could potentially find a flaw, not tell anybody about it, and then exploit that flaw to manipulate an election. Why would someone do that? Obviously to advance an agenda, either by getting a win for a particular candidate who supports that agenda (so you'd want to manipulate the votes in a sneaky way) or if your agenda is getting rid of these voting machines, producing results that are clearly absurd (landslide victory for the Stallman write in campaign). I think the former is more subversive and likely to have financial support either from the candidates themselves or organizations supporting those candidates. Given this, it is reasonable to assume that if you are going to fix the vote for the win, your opponent will too, which means you need to either escalate the fraud operation, increasing the risk such fraud will be exposed, or you need to prevent your opponent from taking advantage of the flaws by having them patched and using that labor you saved by not escalating to instead get out the vote.
I might also be way off in this analysis, but I think having the code open to public scrutiny and the hardware securely locked down (any potential tampering should be evident) would be the way to go if computers are used at all.