Of course, you're assuming that the colorblindness is responsible for his enhanced vision, when it may be that he has some other genetic anomaly that increases his visual acuity. It could be possible for him to see all the colors -and- have his extra vision abilities as well.
I put this in the same category as people who work for telemarketers. They know they are pissing people off left and right because people tell them so on a daily basis. That doesn't stop them, though. They all use the same excuses: "I have to work somewhere." and "Someone else would do it anyway."
This guy just takes it a step further and ignores criminal actions as well as unethical ones.
It's not the same. Liquid Rescale moves the pieces by rescaling around them. This actually replaces just the exact area. I think it's quite a bit more useful, but in different ways.
It used to be better, before they decided to try a bunch of really neat shiny things. I keep hoping they will eventually figure all these problems out, but... Well, I'm starting to wonder.
Note that Google didn't decide to make their Google.cn people break the law by uncensoring results. Instead, they took the traffic away from China's servers and sent it to Hong Kong instead.
I don't know if that gets their Chinese employees fully in the clear (because China can make anything illegal simply because they're having a bad day) but it does make sure that nobody -in- China had anything to do with any already-illegal activities.
I'd love to find a girl that likes to play video games, and would enjoy playing them with me. Hell, I'm even inclined to give up my bachelor lifestyle for such a rare gem... But pay $9 for 10 minutes of playing a game with her over the net? I really, really don't think so.
Now, if that was the prelude to getting an actual date with her, I could see it. (In other words, you have to prove you aren't a complete asshole while playing games.)
My work OSX computer is a lot more powerful than my home Windows computer and I spend a -lot- more time waiting on the OSX machine. In fact, Word and Excel are the apps I wait the most on.
Rather than showing off a flaw in the OS, it probably points to things not being optimized.
Even if they recognize that, they -still- have to consider HIPAA because there will be lawsuits otherwise. Even if you say 'Okay, upload to Google for me' there's some litigious asshole out there that will say 'Oh, I didn't mean THAT information' and sue them.
So they have to be extra careful with your data, whether you like it or not.
You say 'always', but HP has produced $800 tablets for years now. I upgraded one and spent $1200, but that's still half of your $2500.
So, why didn't they catch on?
The digitizer is just so-so The processor is crap and can't really handle digitizer input at full speed, even if the digitizer wasn't so-so. It's heavy. You imagine holding it on one arm and drawing with the other, like you might a clipboard... This will not happen for more than a couple minutes. It's touch-screen as well as having a digitizer. In theory, the touchscreen disables when the pen is near the screen, so your hand doesn't accidentally draw. In reality, the distance has to be too close, and you end up messing things up constantly. It's heavy. You imagine reading books on it, but it's simply a pain to move around while you're reading. It's hot. That processor, as weak as it is, produces so much heat that you'll think twice about setting it on your lap. Did I mention that it's heavy? Seriously. Everything you think you want to do with it will fail because it's just heavy.
So, why do I expect the iPad and its competitors to succeed?
They won't be heavy. Just like an iPod Touch or iPhone, it'll be a nice light-weight device that only does what it needs to: Display content! Decent book-readers are already $200-300 anyhow. (And they used to be $500.) For the media capabilities in a better tablet, the extra price is justified. You can run your already-existing mobile apps. The iPad will use your iPhone apps, and the Android devices will supposedly use your Android apps you've already bought. On all other computers, you're expected to repurchase your apps when you have multiple devices. (I've always thought this was a stupid policy. A person can only use 1 computer at a time anyhow, so just let them install it multiple times.)
Someone above recommended Remembering The Kanji (and it's Chinese version, Remembering the Hanzi), so I'm going to leave that alone.
ReadTheKanji.com is a -great- site for learning to read Japanese words. It is the single best thing to help me read Japanese that I've found, and I've spent a lot of time looking. I even thought about writing my own version, but other than some fairly minor features that I'm not ready for yet, I can't improve on it.
I don't think anything like it exists for Chinese, but if it did, that would be my recommendation.
This is more of a long-term thing, though... If you expect them to learn particular characters -right now- instead of learning them more naturally over time, then a flashcard program like Anki is probably the way to go.
Plans for ones without page-flippers already exist and are very fast. If a handful of college kids wanted to take turns scanning their books and sharing with each other, it could be done very quickly.
The fact that most decent novels get scanned and OCRd (or at least PDFd) but textbooks don't is a big sign that students don't really think that process will help them much.
It also isn't anything like the original design. The original had screens the full size of the keys, including the spacebar, instead of these pathetic little tiny screens with massive borders around them.
For $1500, I'd probably still be at least a little tempted to get the original design. At $400, I still wouldn't be tempted for the actual one.
I didn't have it happen to me... I just took a good look at all the reports (and denials) of it on the web and realized that I had to make sure it didn't happen to me. The hardware it killed was CDROM drives. It did it by sending odd signals to it and basically destroying the drive mechanism. It's possible that it just overworked the drive, but nobody is really sure.
Of course, the makers claim that their software never did anything wrong. I don't believe that because there were just way, way too many incidents.
I agree. I refuse to continue polluting my computer with all their DRM crap. Long ago, I didn't mind... But then some DRM was released that accidentally destroyed some hardware and the company refused to admit it. There's no way in hell I'm going to install software that can potentially destroy my hardware.
So my solution? PS3 and XBox 360. Yes, they technically still have DRM, but at least the DRM on them doesn't have a chance to destroy anything, and it never gets in the way of me playing the games.
I still occasionally buy a PC game, but it's more like 1 a year, instead of the 10-15 a year that I used to. And on top of that, I can -rent- console games... So I don't buy them now, either.
DRM is killing the gaming industry moreso than any pirates ever did.
I saw Alice in IMAX 3D this last weekend. The glasses had green and purple tint to them. I suspect they were also polarized, though, as moving my head a certain way made everything look like I wasn't wearing them.
I far prefer the 'cheap' RealD to the green/purple IMAX.
Oddly, I've been in IMAX 3D before and they weren't green/purple at that point.
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How much does it cost them if you download a torrent of a show that someone taped from 'the airwaves'? Nothing.
How much does it cost them if you watch the show online using their bandwidth? Not nothing.
That's a pretty big difference.
Of course, you're assuming that the colorblindness is responsible for his enhanced vision, when it may be that he has some other genetic anomaly that increases his visual acuity. It could be possible for him to see all the colors -and- have his extra vision abilities as well.
My phone is for -my- usage, not yours. If you are using it for your own purposes while I am the one paying for it, that's unethical.
Also, using my time for your purposes without compensation is also unethical.
Illegal and unethical have nothing to do with each other.
And just because you think harassing people isn't unethical doesn't make it so.
I put this in the same category as people who work for telemarketers. They know they are pissing people off left and right because people tell them so on a daily basis. That doesn't stop them, though. They all use the same excuses: "I have to work somewhere." and "Someone else would do it anyway."
This guy just takes it a step further and ignores criminal actions as well as unethical ones.
All those moving parts... Wouldn't it be safer, cheaper and easier to just have a horse pull it?
That is disgusting. :D
It's not the same. Liquid Rescale moves the pieces by rescaling around them. This actually replaces just the exact area. I think it's quite a bit more useful, but in different ways.
It used to be better, before they decided to try a bunch of really neat shiny things. I keep hoping they will eventually figure all these problems out, but... Well, I'm starting to wonder.
Note that Google didn't decide to make their Google.cn people break the law by uncensoring results. Instead, they took the traffic away from China's servers and sent it to Hong Kong instead.
I don't know if that gets their Chinese employees fully in the clear (because China can make anything illegal simply because they're having a bad day) but it does make sure that nobody -in- China had anything to do with any already-illegal activities.
In 'fixing' my grammar, you changed the meaning of the sentence. That's a pretty big failure.
Unless of course you were going to a witty comment... But the grammar bit kind of killed that.
I was going to take it one step further:
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I'd love to find a girl that likes to play video games, and would enjoy playing them with me. Hell, I'm even inclined to give up my bachelor lifestyle for such a rare gem... But pay $9 for 10 minutes of playing a game with her over the net? I really, really don't think so.
Now, if that was the prelude to getting an actual date with her, I could see it. (In other words, you have to prove you aren't a complete asshole while playing games.)
If you contribute to a project and sign off on the 'X Company owns this code now' statement, you know exactly what you're getting into.
If you didn't sign that statement, they probably don't own the code and they're breaking the law.
Either way, it has nothing to do with the GPL.
Well, I don't hate to say it.
My work OSX computer is a lot more powerful than my home Windows computer and I spend a -lot- more time waiting on the OSX machine. In fact, Word and Excel are the apps I wait the most on.
Rather than showing off a flaw in the OS, it probably points to things not being optimized.
May have killed hundreds...
May also have killed nobody.
How sensational!
Even if they recognize that, they -still- have to consider HIPAA because there will be lawsuits otherwise. Even if you say 'Okay, upload to Google for me' there's some litigious asshole out there that will say 'Oh, I didn't mean THAT information' and sue them.
So they have to be extra careful with your data, whether you like it or not.
And that's for your benefit, btw.
You say 'always', but HP has produced $800 tablets for years now. I upgraded one and spent $1200, but that's still half of your $2500.
So, why didn't they catch on?
The digitizer is just so-so
The processor is crap and can't really handle digitizer input at full speed, even if the digitizer wasn't so-so.
It's heavy. You imagine holding it on one arm and drawing with the other, like you might a clipboard... This will not happen for more than a couple minutes.
It's touch-screen as well as having a digitizer. In theory, the touchscreen disables when the pen is near the screen, so your hand doesn't accidentally draw. In reality, the distance has to be too close, and you end up messing things up constantly.
It's heavy. You imagine reading books on it, but it's simply a pain to move around while you're reading.
It's hot. That processor, as weak as it is, produces so much heat that you'll think twice about setting it on your lap.
Did I mention that it's heavy? Seriously. Everything you think you want to do with it will fail because it's just heavy.
So, why do I expect the iPad and its competitors to succeed?
They won't be heavy. Just like an iPod Touch or iPhone, it'll be a nice light-weight device that only does what it needs to: Display content!
Decent book-readers are already $200-300 anyhow. (And they used to be $500.) For the media capabilities in a better tablet, the extra price is justified.
You can run your already-existing mobile apps. The iPad will use your iPhone apps, and the Android devices will supposedly use your Android apps you've already bought. On all other computers, you're expected to repurchase your apps when you have multiple devices. (I've always thought this was a stupid policy. A person can only use 1 computer at a time anyhow, so just let them install it multiple times.)
Someone above recommended Remembering The Kanji (and it's Chinese version, Remembering the Hanzi), so I'm going to leave that alone.
ReadTheKanji.com is a -great- site for learning to read Japanese words. It is the single best thing to help me read Japanese that I've found, and I've spent a lot of time looking. I even thought about writing my own version, but other than some fairly minor features that I'm not ready for yet, I can't improve on it.
I don't think anything like it exists for Chinese, but if it did, that would be my recommendation.
This is more of a long-term thing, though... If you expect them to learn particular characters -right now- instead of learning them more naturally over time, then a flashcard program like Anki is probably the way to go.
Plans for ones without page-flippers already exist and are very fast. If a handful of college kids wanted to take turns scanning their books and sharing with each other, it could be done very quickly.
The fact that most decent novels get scanned and OCRd (or at least PDFd) but textbooks don't is a big sign that students don't really think that process will help them much.
It also isn't anything like the original design. The original had screens the full size of the keys, including the spacebar, instead of these pathetic little tiny screens with massive borders around them.
For $1500, I'd probably still be at least a little tempted to get the original design. At $400, I still wouldn't be tempted for the actual one.
I didn't have it happen to me... I just took a good look at all the reports (and denials) of it on the web and realized that I had to make sure it didn't happen to me. The hardware it killed was CDROM drives. It did it by sending odd signals to it and basically destroying the drive mechanism. It's possible that it just overworked the drive, but nobody is really sure.
Of course, the makers claim that their software never did anything wrong. I don't believe that because there were just way, way too many incidents.
I agree. I refuse to continue polluting my computer with all their DRM crap. Long ago, I didn't mind... But then some DRM was released that accidentally destroyed some hardware and the company refused to admit it. There's no way in hell I'm going to install software that can potentially destroy my hardware.
So my solution? PS3 and XBox 360. Yes, they technically still have DRM, but at least the DRM on them doesn't have a chance to destroy anything, and it never gets in the way of me playing the games.
I still occasionally buy a PC game, but it's more like 1 a year, instead of the 10-15 a year that I used to. And on top of that, I can -rent- console games... So I don't buy them now, either.
DRM is killing the gaming industry moreso than any pirates ever did.
I saw Alice in IMAX 3D this last weekend. The glasses had green and purple tint to them. I suspect they were also polarized, though, as moving my head a certain way made everything look like I wasn't wearing them.
I far prefer the 'cheap' RealD to the green/purple IMAX.
Oddly, I've been in IMAX 3D before and they weren't green/purple at that point.
Immediate is the wrong word, then. There is a cash advance fee, yes, but interest starts accruing immediately as well.