According to Fitts's Law, bigger is better even with a mouse.
But anyway... in Windows 8.1, you will be able to shrink the tiles to be smaller than a standard desktop icon, if you want. And if you still don't like the tile screen, you can set it so that the Apps screen is default.
There's no reason for a complete rewrite of the underlying constitution every few years (unless you're trying to destroy the democracy in question).
Sigh, you're confused. I'm not suggesting writing a new Constitution... not at all! I'm talking about amending the Constitution.
Read up on Article V, and notice that there is a second way to amend the Constitution (a convention of the states' legislatures). That is the power that the states were intended to have, but have never been able to wield.
The 4th amendment is subject to interpretation, and currently SCOTUS and the rest of the federal government choose an interpretation that keeps power at the federal level. The states could (through passage of another amendment) make the preferred interpretation explicit.
A Constitution Convention is also a threat to the very power of Congress, which means that Congress and the federal government wouldn't want to piss off too many people at the state level. For now, the federal government basically tells the states to bend over and take it.
That's larger that the populations of South Dakota, Alaska, North Dakota, D.C., Vermont, Wyoming, every US territory except Puerto Rico, and 35% of the countries and dependent territories in the world.
A Constitutional convention is the equivalent of large scale nuclear warfare for US politics. It'll be invoked only when something seriously wrong happens.
I disagree. It was intended to be used regularly, which was possible when only 13 states existed. But today, it's just logistically impractical to get the majority of 50 different state legislatures to come together.
And that might even work for a few cycles until someone got enough power and gamed the system to pass their amended version and end this attempt at a representative democracy.
This is exactly what Constitutional Conventions were intended to prevent, the ability for too much power to form in the hands of the federal government to the point that democracy becomes ineffective.
Besides, we already have a "someone" with enough real power to change our government. That person is the President. There is no such single person in a Constitutional Convention.
The Constitution guides the checks and balances that prevent power from accumulating outside of the will of the people. That's where its real power lies.
But I think that one of those balances, the balance between the states and the federal government, has become eroded over time. The states don't have much real power to oppose the federal government, and that has helped create the heightened sense of distrust we are experiencing today.
(The main check given to the states is the ability to amend the Constitution through a convention. Since this hasn't happened since the Constitution was ratified, it's pretty clear that this mechanism is ineffective. I would like it if such a convention were to come together regularly, every few years or more often.)
This is why I'm excited about the future with automated driverless cars. I can reclaim those hours reading, sleeping, watching the news, talking or texting safely, putting on makeup (for the womenfolk)... whatever, just not having to pay attention to the road.
This is why you would never make a good CEO. You want to live in the past while others are passing you by.
I don't agree with, or hell, even like everything Microsoft is doing. I have been quite vocal on their forums. But my complaints aren't that they are finally acknowledging that they have to compete. My complaints are that they are becoming secretive like Apple, when their business traditionally targets business consumers who by their nature need to know future support plans.
This is exactly why I don't kneel to the gods of environmentalism. I honestly don't care which company gets my energy money. I do care when the government decides to regulate markets just because the sun feels hotter today than yesterday.
I want proof that the current markets are causing a problem, and I want proof that the regulations are going to obtain the desired results. Otherwise, it's political posturing.
This is my money, the state and its corporate partner shouldn't be making money off me when I try to get it.
I just wanted to interject this: conservative or liberal, I hope we can all agree that big business colluding with big government is often times a recipe for bad things to happen.
This is idealized and only a few unions ever truly seemed to work for the employees.
A friend recently told me why he is no longer part of his union. This particular union provides legal protection, and that's the only reason anyone joins. The employees all keep a minor amount of petty cash on hand, which was against policy but everyone does it out of necessity (but everyone knows that requesting a check to be cut could take weeks or months, so they get away with it). But my friend's coworker got on bad terms with someone else, and that was taken to his supervisor who by policy had to take disciplinary action.
So he called his union. The union's response? "We suggest you resign."
This person had the same job for 29 years, mind you.
But he took his union's advice (which wasn't smart)... now he works in a grocery store and can't get a job in his field, because his action of resigning was basically admitting guilt.
With Kinect2 built into every XBOne ot will make it easier for developers to add the technology to their games but I have strong doubts that it will make motion-control any more/useful/.
Like GPS and accelerometers in mobile devices, if developers have confidence that more/all users will have access to a certain technology, it's more likely they will try to come up with useful ideas.
Also, don't forget that the Kinect 2 is vastly improved over the Kinect in terms of depth resolution and AI capabilities. That alone could give developers what they need to take their games and other software to the next level.
The PS4 is a loss leader. You might want to put Orbis on another system, but given that Orbis is specifically tuned for the PS4 hardware and hacking it to work on another much more costly system will likely lead to nothing of great value, in the end such a project will be just for the sake of a hobby.
I would go the other way, trying to get better hardware for cheap and putting a full OS on it.
No, really we're not that rare. According to CDC data, about 1 in 9 women in the U.S. struggle with infertility.
By comparison, only about 1 in 26 in the U.S. are LGBT. African-Americans make up about 1 in 8 people in the U.S.
Those two groups are considered large enough to drive major policy, but infertile couples are ignored and it's quite difficult to even get the condition covered by a reasonable amount of health insurance.
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According to Fitts's Law, bigger is better even with a mouse.
But anyway... in Windows 8.1, you will be able to shrink the tiles to be smaller than a standard desktop icon, if you want. And if you still don't like the tile screen, you can set it so that the Apps screen is default.
In this case, they could be "loaned" out instead of given out, under the condition that the operating system stays put.
There's no reason for a complete rewrite of the underlying constitution every few years (unless you're trying to destroy the democracy in question).
Sigh, you're confused. I'm not suggesting writing a new Constitution... not at all! I'm talking about amending the Constitution.
Read up on Article V, and notice that there is a second way to amend the Constitution (a convention of the states' legislatures). That is the power that the states were intended to have, but have never been able to wield.
The 4th amendment is subject to interpretation, and currently SCOTUS and the rest of the federal government choose an interpretation that keeps power at the federal level. The states could (through passage of another amendment) make the preferred interpretation explicit.
A Constitution Convention is also a threat to the very power of Congress, which means that Congress and the federal government wouldn't want to piss off too many people at the state level. For now, the federal government basically tells the states to bend over and take it.
What worries me as much, or more, is that we have over 700,000 people on the terror watch list.
Nay, over 875,000.
That's larger that the populations of South Dakota, Alaska, North Dakota, D.C., Vermont, Wyoming, every US territory except Puerto Rico, and 35% of the countries and dependent territories in the world.
A Constitutional convention is the equivalent of large scale nuclear warfare for US politics. It'll be invoked only when something seriously wrong happens.
I disagree. It was intended to be used regularly, which was possible when only 13 states existed. But today, it's just logistically impractical to get the majority of 50 different state legislatures to come together.
And that might even work for a few cycles until someone got enough power and gamed the system to pass their amended version and end this attempt at a representative democracy.
This is exactly what Constitutional Conventions were intended to prevent, the ability for too much power to form in the hands of the federal government to the point that democracy becomes ineffective.
Besides, we already have a "someone" with enough real power to change our government. That person is the President. There is no such single person in a Constitutional Convention.
You shouldn't be able to simply march in, wave a flag with an eagle on it saying "National Security" and be able to plunder at will.
There was a time when the 9th Amendment to the US Constitution meant something... such as the ability to simply say "No" to the federal government.
The Constitution guides the checks and balances that prevent power from accumulating outside of the will of the people. That's where its real power lies.
But I think that one of those balances, the balance between the states and the federal government, has become eroded over time. The states don't have much real power to oppose the federal government, and that has helped create the heightened sense of distrust we are experiencing today.
(The main check given to the states is the ability to amend the Constitution through a convention. Since this hasn't happened since the Constitution was ratified, it's pretty clear that this mechanism is ineffective. I would like it if such a convention were to come together regularly, every few years or more often.)
This is why I'm excited about the future with automated driverless cars. I can reclaim those hours reading, sleeping, watching the news, talking or texting safely, putting on makeup (for the womenfolk)... whatever, just not having to pay attention to the road.
This is why you would never make a good CEO. You want to live in the past while others are passing you by.
I don't agree with, or hell, even like everything Microsoft is doing. I have been quite vocal on their forums. But my complaints aren't that they are finally acknowledging that they have to compete. My complaints are that they are becoming secretive like Apple, when their business traditionally targets business consumers who by their nature need to know future support plans.
This is exactly why I don't kneel to the gods of environmentalism. I honestly don't care which company gets my energy money. I do care when the government decides to regulate markets just because the sun feels hotter today than yesterday.
I want proof that the current markets are causing a problem, and I want proof that the regulations are going to obtain the desired results. Otherwise, it's political posturing.
How are any of those options "more typing"?
Clearly, there's something wrong with the American implementation.
Agreed, and more so, there's something wrong with the current American implementation. Unions were much better in the beginning.
Oh sure, blame him for his union failing to do the only thing that they were good for, after paying them thousands of dollars over 29 years.
It's not embezzlement. It's either doing this or fail to do their jobs because management can't put into place decent policies.
He is a good person, and this petty cash thing wasn't even related to the reason the other person got pissed at him.
My different recipe is Modern Whig. Libertarians are starting to scare me as much as the big two.
This is my money, the state and its corporate partner shouldn't be making money off me when I try to get it.
I just wanted to interject this: conservative or liberal, I hope we can all agree that big business colluding with big government is often times a recipe for bad things to happen.
This is idealized and only a few unions ever truly seemed to work for the employees.
A friend recently told me why he is no longer part of his union. This particular union provides legal protection, and that's the only reason anyone joins. The employees all keep a minor amount of petty cash on hand, which was against policy but everyone does it out of necessity (but everyone knows that requesting a check to be cut could take weeks or months, so they get away with it). But my friend's coworker got on bad terms with someone else, and that was taken to his supervisor who by policy had to take disciplinary action.
So he called his union. The union's response? "We suggest you resign."
This person had the same job for 29 years, mind you.
But he took his union's advice (which wasn't smart)... now he works in a grocery store and can't get a job in his field, because his action of resigning was basically admitting guilt.
Paying union dues for 29 years got him this.
Well, you may not like Apple much longer either: http://www.macrumors.com/2013/06/25/new-apis-in-ios-7-allow-developers-to-detect-blinking-and-smiling-in-photos/
With Kinect2 built into every XBOne ot will make it easier for developers to add the technology to their games but I have strong doubts that it will make motion-control any more /useful/.
Like GPS and accelerometers in mobile devices, if developers have confidence that more/all users will have access to a certain technology, it's more likely they will try to come up with useful ideas.
Also, don't forget that the Kinect 2 is vastly improved over the Kinect in terms of depth resolution and AI capabilities. That alone could give developers what they need to take their games and other software to the next level.
This article makes up a premise, points out that Sandy's path was unusual, and the final answer is "We don’t really know yet." That's your proof?
I'm looking for more like the following:
- Formulate a question
- Do some research
- Provide a hypothesis
- Test the hypothesis via experiments
- Analyze data and draw conclusions
In other words, science.
The Republicans certainly have their fair share of stupid politicians, but the Democrats have their fair share of stupid supporters.
are you suggesting we move NEW YORK FUCKING CITY and every other city that happens to lie in the danger zone, rather than switch to cleaner energy?
Are you suggesting that switching to cleaner energy would have prevented Hurricane Sandy?
The PS4 is a loss leader. You might want to put Orbis on another system, but given that Orbis is specifically tuned for the PS4 hardware and hacking it to work on another much more costly system will likely lead to nothing of great value, in the end such a project will be just for the sake of a hobby.
I would go the other way, trying to get better hardware for cheap and putting a full OS on it.
but we are a tiny minority
No, really we're not that rare. According to CDC data, about 1 in 9 women in the U.S. struggle with infertility.
By comparison, only about 1 in 26 in the U.S. are LGBT. African-Americans make up about 1 in 8 people in the U.S.
Those two groups are considered large enough to drive major policy, but infertile couples are ignored and it's quite difficult to even get the condition covered by a reasonable amount of health insurance.