the joy of driving cars died a long time ago. I'm too young, but my dad tells me about when you used to actually DRIVE a car, now they drive themselves and you just point them in the right direction and change the speed a bit.
if you want to experience the "joy of driving", learn to ride a motorbike - they still require actual skill.
Newtonian physics is not "wrong", it's just the low-velocity limit of special relativity and is a perfectly acceptable theory to use if you're dealing with a low-velocity system.
The fact that special relativity is completely independent of Newtonian physics and yet gives the same answer in the low-velocity limit should INCREASE your trust in Newtonian physics, albeit in particular circumstances (low-velocity w.r.t. speed of light).
that's how science works - it gets better and better, more and more accuarate, but whatever was proven to be true yesterday will still be true tomorrow - science is reliable because it is generally correct.
the same way there in't enough evidence whether the Earth is flat or not?
generally, apart from America, the rest of the developed world has no question about the validity of evolution. there is so much evidence it doesn't even bear consideration except in the USA where extremists try to claim the bible is fact when historically no other Christians have had this opinion because religion isn't supposed to be about facts anyway.
the problem is that science has been so sucessful that now everyone looks at things in terms of true or false, including religion itself, which is not how things were supposed to be. religion used to be about things that science CAN'T answer, such as the PURPOSE of the universe, not about factual and historical things like the number of days it took for life to come about on planet Earth. seriously, how the fuck can it possibly matter?
but modern "Christians" are usually more concered with claiming they BELIEVE in the Bible than actually READING it and following its teachings. they'd rather scream about creationism than think about whether people are treating fellow human beings with the love and respect they deserve.
I was the most absurd design ever. It would print the page fine. Once it was done you would have to grab it immediately or it would suck the page back in and screw it up into one of those fan things.
I can't see what the point of having the roller reverse direction at the end of printing is except to deliberately increase the number of pages that people woud print.
It eventually died because no one designed a switch to make it refuse to print when the paper out lid was closed.
I mostly use the stars to allow smart playlist generation.
1 star - bad 2 stars - background music 3 stars - good
4 and 5 stars mean good and very good but also that they'll be included in several smart playlists. so a 4 star isn't necessarily better than a 3 star but I want it on my ipod etc.
and doesn't releasing a product usually involve designing and testing for a significant time before release anyway? I'm guessing design plans and prototypes give an extra couple of months to Apple's claims at the very least.
why does the game cost far more to buy than the cost of manufacture + 1 month's subscription. Don't you think it's cheeky to charge the cost of a normal game AND a monthly subscription, and that more people would have a try if it weren't so expensive?
I understand what you mean about monopoly status dictating tactics but that's not where I'm coming from.
I'm coming from the point of view that all advertising is subject to laws about accuracy so people should expect accurate results no matter what the size of the Google. this point isn't perfectly clear though since there's a difference between an ad for Y stimulated by searching for X and an ad actually claiming to be X.
also there's the trademark issue. adwords means that company Y is effectively advertising under the name of company X. I don't think you should be able to buy adwords which are trademarks of a competitor. it is wrong imo (and now the law's). isn't that the whole point of a trade-mark - it's used to identify YOUR company and not someone else's?
I don't know because the numbers you give are meaningless.
This is why you should always give error bars for values obtained in a supposedly scientific way, then it would be obvious if it's noise or not.
You also shouldn't give values to inappropriate levels of precision. if you're going to say share went down by 0.64% and not give an error bar, then it's reasonable to assume your error was +/- 0.005%, in which case it is NOT statistical noise.
(I know I'm asking a lot for/. to be accurate with scientific analysis when it can't even get the basics of the English language right.)
the way I see it is that if you search for company X and you get info about company Y then that is not right, but there is a point that company Y may be to blame rather than Google. but if company X complains to Google and Google does nothing, they too are at fault.
I don't know what monopoly has to do with it. if you made a phone book with company Y's phone number underneath the name of company X then that is wrong regardless of whether your phone book is a monopoly or even if it isn't even the most popular.
this is using another company's name to advertise your products. wrong.
now if something could be done about those sites that have lines of product names in "invisible" text just to bump their rankings...
and while we're at it, how about offering the option to have user-defined filters always applied, for example unless I say otherwise I'd always like my Google searches to reject all sites that contain the phrase "compare prices for" .
to me podcasting implies broadcasting to ipods. who do you think is claiming innovation and why do you think it is undeserved? (IMO RSS + audio file + auto-sync + dynamic art is innovative as it's an order of magnitude simpler than manually doing the same thing)
if you don't like podcasting then what do you think it should be called?
yes, but if they used subscription to RSS feeds to automatically deliver new videos from a particular author and auto-syncing with a portable video player then it WOULD be "video-podcasting" or whatever the new term would be.
there are so many people bitching about the term "podcasting". I'm sure it must just be hatred/envy towards Apple because I don't remember any of you guys slagging off "email" as just being mail on the internet and nothing more so whys teh new name oh noes!!!11
I'm still too scared to touch anything in the "hardware" section of Windows Update after a driver update for my NIC somehow destroyed all OS networking capabilty.
even if Apple hardware wasn't required for OS X, I'd buy it anyway. I love the look and functionality of my iBook.
1. Apple would have to support a massively larger amount of hardware.
2. there would be a loss of branding and a lowering of the quality associated with OS X.
3. there are plenty of games on the Mac, but if you want the very latest cutting-edge PC games you'd never be satisfied anyway since you'd need ATI/nVidia making their latest cards in Mac versions too.
4. if you DO want games, why do you want a Mac? if Windows works, use it.
5. what is happening to the PC game industry? is it growing/shrinking? will PC games be so important when the latest generation consoles are out?
6. given PC games makers moves to absurd copy-protection methods (drivers), will either the makers or Apple allow the other to do what they want to "secure" the computers?
>The Speed Limit is designed to be a universally safe speed. This includes a half-blind old person driving a poorly maintained SUV during heavy traffic.
no it's not (not in the UK at least). it's a *limit*, not a target, which means it's the *maximum* you should do in the *best* conditions with a healthy, qualified driver and a well-maintained car (anything less should not even be on the road).
if the roads are bad due to traffic, weather etc. then you should do less than the limit - yes, your car can actually travel below the speed limit for sustained periods of time.
if people like you are so so uniformed that they truely believe than "The Speed Limit" is "a universally safe speed" then no wonder there is so much speeding and death.
please consult The Highway Code or your country's equivalent, I'm sure you won't find anything like "a universally safe speed" under the section on speed limits.
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the joy of driving cars died a long time ago. I'm too young, but my dad tells me about when you used to actually DRIVE a car, now they drive themselves and you just point them in the right direction and change the speed a bit.
if you want to experience the "joy of driving", learn to ride a motorbike - they still require actual skill.
Newtonian physics is not "wrong", it's just the low-velocity limit of special relativity and is a perfectly acceptable theory to use if you're dealing with a low-velocity system.
The fact that special relativity is completely independent of Newtonian physics and yet gives the same answer in the low-velocity limit should INCREASE your trust in Newtonian physics, albeit in particular circumstances (low-velocity w.r.t. speed of light).
that's how science works - it gets better and better, more and more accuarate, but whatever was proven to be true yesterday will still be true tomorrow - science is reliable because it is generally correct.
the same way there in't enough evidence whether the Earth is flat or not?
generally, apart from America, the rest of the developed world has no question about the validity of evolution. there is so much evidence it doesn't even bear consideration except in the USA where extremists try to claim the bible is fact when historically no other Christians have had this opinion because religion isn't supposed to be about facts anyway.
the problem is that science has been so sucessful that now everyone looks at things in terms of true or false, including religion itself, which is not how things were supposed to be. religion used to be about things that science CAN'T answer, such as the PURPOSE of the universe, not about factual and historical things like the number of days it took for life to come about on planet Earth. seriously, how the fuck can it possibly matter?
but modern "Christians" are usually more concered with claiming they BELIEVE in the Bible than actually READING it and following its teachings. they'd rather scream about creationism than think about whether people are treating fellow human beings with the love and respect they deserve.
what are you talking about? supporting 2 different platforms is as easy as clicking a check box with xcode.
and if you can't be bothered to even do that, transparent emulation will take care of it for your users.
I was the most absurd design ever. It would print the page fine. Once it was done you would have to grab it immediately or it would suck the page back in and screw it up into one of those fan things.
I can't see what the point of having the roller reverse direction at the end of printing is except to deliberately increase the number of pages that people woud print.
It eventually died because no one designed a switch to make it refuse to print when the paper out lid was closed.
I mostly use the stars to allow smart playlist generation.
1 star - bad
2 stars - background music
3 stars - good
4 and 5 stars mean good and very good but also that they'll be included in several smart playlists. so a 4 star isn't necessarily better than a 3 star but I want it on my ipod etc.
>Record companies - 1, artist - 0.1, consumer - 0
no, capitalism is a zero sum game,
Record companies: 1, artist: 0.1, consumer: -1.1
I prefer the spelling farmer-sue-tical since it's a more accurate description of their business practices of late.
and doesn't releasing a product usually involve designing and testing for a significant time before release anyway? I'm guessing design plans and prototypes give an extra couple of months to Apple's claims at the very least.
on second look, you're talking about reading not writing so...
Safari has the option to only allow cookies from sites you actually go to, which is what you descibe.
Firefox has a weaker option of only allowing cookies from the originating site but you can also make it ask you.
why does the game cost far more to buy than the cost of manufacture + 1 month's subscription. Don't you think it's cheeky to charge the cost of a normal game AND a monthly subscription, and that more people would have a try if it weren't so expensive?
I understand what you mean about monopoly status dictating tactics but that's not where I'm coming from.
I'm coming from the point of view that all advertising is subject to laws about accuracy so people should expect accurate results no matter what the size of the Google. this point isn't perfectly clear though since there's a difference between an ad for Y stimulated by searching for X and an ad actually claiming to be X.
also there's the trademark issue. adwords means that company Y is effectively advertising under the name of company X. I don't think you should be able to buy adwords which are trademarks of a competitor. it is wrong imo (and now the law's). isn't that the whole point of a trade-mark - it's used to identify YOUR company and not someone else's?
I don't know because the numbers you give are meaningless.
/. to be accurate with scientific analysis when it can't even get the basics of the English language right.)
This is why you should always give error bars for values obtained in a supposedly scientific way, then it would be obvious if it's noise or not.
You also shouldn't give values to inappropriate levels of precision. if you're going to say share went down by 0.64% and not give an error bar, then it's reasonable to assume your error was +/- 0.005%, in which case it is NOT statistical noise.
(I know I'm asking a lot for
the way I see it is that if you search for company X and you get info about company Y then that is not right, but there is a point that company Y may be to blame rather than Google. but if company X complains to Google and Google does nothing, they too are at fault.
I don't know what monopoly has to do with it. if you made a phone book with company Y's phone number underneath the name of company X then that is wrong regardless of whether your phone book is a monopoly or even if it isn't even the most popular.
yes I mean that I should only type it once in my preferences and then not have to type it every time.
this is using another company's name to advertise your products. wrong.
now if something could be done about those sites that have lines of product names in "invisible" text just to bump their rankings...
and while we're at it, how about offering the option to have user-defined filters always applied, for example unless I say otherwise I'd always like my Google searches to reject all sites that contain the phrase "compare prices for" .
to me podcasting implies broadcasting to ipods. who do you think is claiming innovation and why do you think it is undeserved? (IMO RSS + audio file + auto-sync + dynamic art is innovative as it's an order of magnitude simpler than manually doing the same thing)
if you don't like podcasting then what do you think it should be called?
yes, but if they used subscription to RSS feeds to automatically deliver new videos from a particular author and auto-syncing with a portable video player then it WOULD be "video-podcasting" or whatever the new term would be.
there are so many people bitching about the term "podcasting". I'm sure it must just be hatred/envy towards Apple because I don't remember any of you guys slagging off "email" as just being mail on the internet and nothing more so whys teh new name oh noes!!!11
http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/airtunes.html
AFAIK the hardware is a little different because there are "Mac" versions of cards:
http://www.ati.com/products/mac.html
I'm still too scared to touch anything in the "hardware" section of Windows Update after a driver update for my NIC somehow destroyed all OS networking capabilty.
even if Apple hardware wasn't required for OS X, I'd buy it anyway. I love the look and functionality of my iBook.
1. Apple would have to support a massively larger amount of hardware. 2. there would be a loss of branding and a lowering of the quality associated with OS X. 3. there are plenty of games on the Mac, but if you want the very latest cutting-edge PC games you'd never be satisfied anyway since you'd need ATI/nVidia making their latest cards in Mac versions too. 4. if you DO want games, why do you want a Mac? if Windows works, use it. 5. what is happening to the PC game industry? is it growing/shrinking? will PC games be so important when the latest generation consoles are out? 6. given PC games makers moves to absurd copy-protection methods (drivers), will either the makers or Apple allow the other to do what they want to "secure" the computers?
>The Speed Limit is designed to be a universally safe speed. This includes a half-blind old person driving a poorly maintained SUV during heavy traffic.
no it's not (not in the UK at least). it's a *limit*, not a target, which means it's the *maximum* you should do in the *best* conditions with a healthy, qualified driver and a well-maintained car (anything less should not even be on the road).
if the roads are bad due to traffic, weather etc. then you should do less than the limit - yes, your car can actually travel below the speed limit for sustained periods of time.
if people like you are so so uniformed that they truely believe than "The Speed Limit" is "a universally safe speed" then no wonder there is so much speeding and death.
please consult The Highway Code or your country's equivalent, I'm sure you won't find anything like "a universally safe speed" under the section on speed limits.