Your linked "facts" notwithstanding, coffee should be brewed at a temperature higher than McDonalds was accused of serving (180-190 F)
The general consensus among coffee aficionados is that the proper brewing temperature is about 200 F (Source, also Wikipedia). This was also the conclusion of another judgement in another lawsuit against Bunn-o-Matic on the same grounds (which was thrown out.) Juicy tidbit from that link:
...a little digging on our own part turned up ANSI/AHAM CM-1-1986, which the American National Standards Institute adopted for home coffee makers. Standard 5.2.1 provides:
On completion of the brewing cycle and within a 2 minute interval, the beverage temperature in the dispensing vessel of the coffee maker while stirring should be between the limits of 170 degrees F and 205 degrees F (77 degrees C and 96 degrees C).
(Emphasis added)
Yes, coffee served that hot will do serious damage to human flesh in a short period of time. So will all sorts of properly prepared foods if consumed immediately after cooking.
Yes, many establishments and home brewers deliver tepid coffee. This is sad, but it does not make McDonalds a villain for serving properly prepared coffee (or, at least, coffee that's closer to properly prepared than other places.)
Yes, there are a lot of dipwads that complain to McDonalds after they've burned themselves by spilling coffee or drinking it too soon. McDonalds is not responsible for their idiocy.
In my opinion, the McDonalds case says very little about torts and tort reform, but quite a bit about our legal system in general.
The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
The quote above is discussing the bad way of doing things, not RMB context sensitive pop up menus. True, which was the only purpose anyone had come up with for secondary mouse buttons in the early '80s, which is the time period he (and you) were referring to. Context menus came later...I forget whether OS/2 or X11 introduced them first...I suspect the latter....
There is no button confusion then- you get instant visual feedback about the action you just took. It's not anywhere near as hard to confuse. Six months of sitting next to the phone support guys last year suggests otherwise to me. It appears that a shocking number of computer owners aren't even aware that their mouse has a second button. They actually have to be told to look down at it, and once they've discovered it, they have to be told explicitly which button to use from then on.
The original SRI mouse (Engelbart, et al, mid-1960's) had one button. By 1968, it had three buttons. Only the left button was used in conjunction with pointing. The other two buttons were used to confirm and cancel actions.
In 1974, at Xerox PARC, I implemented a prototype of the Gypsy text editor that introduced drag-select and needed only one button. (The final version of Gypsy, 1975, which I developed with Tim Mott, used all three buttons because they were there.)
Apple's mouse first appeared on the Lisa. If we had been designing the Lisa for power users, we may have provided at least two buttons. But 99%+ of our target customers were new to mouse use at that time--new, in fact, to computer use. In our 1980 usability tests, we observed significant button confusion. "Which button?" "Oops, wrong button." Or worse, the wrong thing happening without knowing why. We also observed that users paused before clicking to think about which button to click. This not only slowed them down, it took their minds off the task and made them think about the tool.
--Larry Tesler Manager, Lisa Applications and User Interface, 1980-82
We know nothing about this game except that it will be a sequel to a movie and you claim it was meant for the Wii? What on earth are you smoking and how deep is that Wiimote up your ass anyway?
It could be an adventure, it could be a sim, it could be a management game, it could be a shooter, it could be a stategy game.
What makes this game a Wii game? Take one look at the released screenshot, does that look like something the Wii can pull off?
About the only Wii connection I can think of is using the remote to control the beams, possibly a fun way of doing it, but nothing you couldn't do as easily with a mouse.
Look, I don't have a Wii--or any other console, for that matter--but I definitely think the Wii controller was made to simulate a proton wand. Sometimes the graphics can take a back seat to the interaction.
I know. But Windows 3.1 ran on hardware that almost always featured a multi-button mouse, and Windows 3.1 seldom used more than one button. You had to install kludge additions to get additional buttons to do anything, the base system ignored the second button. Just like MacOS 10 now does.
You're either playing a really old troll, or you've never used Mac OS X.
If you plug a two-button mouse into a Mac running OS X, and click the right button, you'll get a context menu, right there in the Finder. No kludges, drivers, or extensions needed. Two-button mice have been supported and fully functional out of the box since Mac OS X 10.0 first shipped.
Windows 3.1 did nothing with the second button because, at the time, nobody knew what to do with it. The Windows 3.x UI was derived from the Mac OS, Atari ST, and Amiga Workbench UIs of the mid-1980s, none of which did all that much with additional buttons. The mouse support is most reflective of its Mac origin. It wasn't until OS/2 and X11 (not sure which came first) that someone figured out a useful standard behavior for the right mouse button: context menus.
Once Microsoft had a good idea to copy, it did so, and the rest is history.
The thirty-year-old F-15 has been "defeated" during exercises with allied powers, flying planes developed twenty-five years later that are it's equal in technology, with pilots as well trained as ours.
Do you really think it's worth their while to provide someone service for only three channels?
It's not like they have to send out a cable guy to deliver my channels every month. They just flip the appropriate switches at "installation" time, and collect a check every month. They could charge, say, a $5 service fee and $2.50 per channel--maybe more for "premium" channels--and I'm sure they'd cover their costs. Under that plan, I'd pay two-thirds of what I'm paying now, and still get the channels I care about.
Now, naturally, it wouldn't be as profitable...
("To better serve our customers, we've added the Christian Golf Channel and ESPN Classic IV to our standard package! They take the place of channel 31 (formerly CNN) and 44 (formerly The Weather Channel) which are now exclusively part of our 112-channel supermegabundle...only $199 a month, plus you get the Christian Golf Channel II and ESPN Classic V and VI! Upgrade today!") ...but that's why this is so attractive.
Due to the original IBM PC architecture, it was easy to make your computer run better - some simple screws, plug-in cards, simple electrical connections.
You give IBM too much credit. The Apple II came in a pop-open case with no screws, and included full electrical schematics. And before that, there were customizable, upgradable kits.
Sheesh. Kids these days think IBM invented the moon.
I'll get my revenge, though. Someday, you'll be reading Slashdot, and you'll see some youn'un give Dell all the credit. "Due to the build-to-order philosophy that Dell fostered, people have become comfortable tinkering with their hardware. Before point-and-click customizing, neanderthalls just stared blankly at their PCs, with no concept of what was inside."
Without net neutrality, you can just sign up for Fox News' new ISP. Any attempt to read about poverty, war, or pollution will be redirected instantly to more positive stories.
Hmmmmm...I wonder what will happen to all those iTunes songs once Apple moves to a new DRM or non-DRM format in the future and stops supporting their old format???
This is already happening. It's called iTunes Plus, a non-DRM AAC file at twice the bitrate of the standard iTunes offerings. The price for new songs is the same as for the DRM-d, lower-quality version. But only one of the big record companies will allow it so far.
Upgrades to the new format are currently US$ 0.30 for previously purchased songs My guess is, when/if Steve Jobs gets his way, the old authentication mechanism will be shut down, and you'll either have to pay up, or you'll be limited to playing your old content on the computers you've previously authenticated.
You seem to be inexplicably tense. Perhaps you should relax for a while and watch a television program.
Or go to the theater, and watch a play. If you have any trouble understanding it, you might find more in the program they give you. Hold on to it, they're collectible.
Whatever you do, though, don't rely on alcohol to relieve your anxiety. If you become dependant on it, you may need a twelve-step program to get yourself back on track.
Second, "In British English, it is generally accepted that collective nouns can take either singular or plural verb forms depending on the context and the metonymic shift that it implies. For example, "the team is in the dressing room" (formal agreement) refers to the team as an ensemble, whilst "the team are fighting among themselves" (notional agreement) refers to the team as individuals." (Source)
(/me is not normally a grammar or spelling Nazi, but I enjoy correcting them when they get it even slightly wrong.)
Have you checked the price of a CD player lately? They're half the price they were five years ago. Which, in turn, was half the price they were five years before that. And so on.
The prices of consumer electronics do indeed fall as the products become more and more widely adopted. The price of content, on the other hand, rises monotonically. Not because of increases in production or distribution costs, but because the media companies like it that way.
If it is essential that a document be rendered identically on different machines, a word processor -- any word processor -- is the wrong tool for the job. If something needs to be viewed only, export to pdf; if it needs to be edited as well, use DTP software.
You know, you're absolutely right! I'll just go explain this to my boss, and that will be the end of that!...
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Mmm. Well, anyway...I don't have to worry about that anymore! By the way, are you guys hiring?
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This is the motivation behind the move to digital television. Free up spectrum so that it can be sold.
What, you thought the government was pushing HDTV just so you'd have a sharper picture?
The general consensus among coffee aficionados is that the proper brewing temperature is about 200 F (Source, also Wikipedia). This was also the conclusion of another judgement in another lawsuit against Bunn-o-Matic on the same grounds (which was thrown out.)
Juicy tidbit from that link:
(Emphasis added)
Yes, coffee served that hot will do serious damage to human flesh in a short period of time. So will all sorts of properly prepared foods if consumed immediately after cooking.
Yes, many establishments and home brewers deliver tepid coffee. This is sad, but it does not make McDonalds a villain for serving properly prepared coffee (or, at least, coffee that's closer to properly prepared than other places.)
Yes, there are a lot of dipwads that complain to McDonalds after they've burned themselves by spilling coffee or drinking it too soon. McDonalds is not responsible for their idiocy.
In my opinion, the McDonalds case says very little about torts and tort reform, but quite a bit about our legal system in general.
Or are their billions of human species besides Homo Sapiens?
Or...did they mean half the human population?
http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution_transcript.html
...as if "a child is in imminent danger" is sufficient cause to abrogate the First Amendment.
The quote above is discussing the bad way of doing things, not RMB context sensitive pop up menus.
True, which was the only purpose anyone had come up with for secondary mouse buttons in the early '80s, which is the time period he (and you) were referring to. Context menus came later...I forget whether OS/2 or X11 introduced them first...I suspect the latter....
There is no button confusion then- you get instant visual feedback about the action you just took. It's not anywhere near as hard to confuse.
Six months of sitting next to the phone support guys last year suggests otherwise to me. It appears that a shocking number of computer owners aren't even aware that their mouse has a second button. They actually have to be told to look down at it, and once they've discovered it, they have to be told explicitly which button to use from then on.
(The subject says it all, but the lameness filter doesn't pay any attention.)
(Poster has no relationship to the author.)
No, it's not. There has been at least one episode that shows that, from the point of view of the transported person, consciousness is continuous.
The treknobabble explanation has something to do with quantum mechanics, which, as every sci-fi fan knows, is magic.
We know nothing about this game except that it will be a sequel to a movie and you claim it was meant for the Wii? What on earth are you smoking and how deep is that Wiimote up your ass anyway?
It could be an adventure, it could be a sim, it could be a management game, it could be a shooter, it could be a stategy game.
What makes this game a Wii game? Take one look at the released screenshot, does that look like something the Wii can pull off?
About the only Wii connection I can think of is using the remote to control the beams, possibly a fun way of doing it, but nothing you couldn't do as easily with a mouse.
Look, I don't have a Wii--or any other console, for that matter--but I definitely think the Wii controller was made to simulate a proton wand. Sometimes the graphics can take a back seat to the interaction.
I know. But Windows 3.1 ran on hardware that almost always featured a multi-button mouse, and Windows 3.1 seldom used more than one button. You had to install kludge additions to get additional buttons to do anything, the base system ignored the second button. Just like MacOS 10 now does.
You're either playing a really old troll, or you've never used Mac OS X.
If you plug a two-button mouse into a Mac running OS X, and click the right button, you'll get a context menu, right there in the Finder. No kludges, drivers, or extensions needed. Two-button mice have been supported and fully functional out of the box since Mac OS X 10.0 first shipped.
Windows 3.1 did nothing with the second button because, at the time, nobody knew what to do with it. The Windows 3.x UI was derived from the Mac OS, Atari ST, and Amiga Workbench UIs of the mid-1980s, none of which did all that much with additional buttons. The mouse support is most reflective of its Mac origin. It wasn't until OS/2 and X11 (not sure which came first) that someone figured out a useful standard behavior for the right mouse button: context menus.
Once Microsoft had a good idea to copy, it did so, and the rest is history.
The thirty-year-old F-15 has been "defeated" during exercises with allied powers, flying planes developed twenty-five years later that are it's equal in technology, with pilots as well trained as ours.
That's my number, you insensitive clod!
It's not like they have to send out a cable guy to deliver my channels every month. They just flip the appropriate switches at "installation" time, and collect a check every month. They could charge, say, a $5 service fee and $2.50 per channel--maybe more for "premium" channels--and I'm sure they'd cover their costs. Under that plan, I'd pay two-thirds of what I'm paying now, and still get the channels I care about.
Now, naturally, it wouldn't be as profitable...
("To better serve our customers, we've added the Christian Golf Channel and ESPN Classic IV to our standard package! They take the place of channel 31 (formerly CNN) and 44 (formerly The Weather Channel) which are now exclusively part of our 112-channel supermegabundle...only $199 a month, plus you get the Christian Golf Channel II and ESPN Classic V and VI! Upgrade today!")
Particularly in it's Latin formulation, which translates as "entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.
Due to the original IBM PC architecture, it was easy to make your computer run better - some simple screws, plug-in cards, simple electrical connections.
You give IBM too much credit. The Apple II came in a pop-open case with no screws, and included full electrical schematics.
And before that, there were customizable, upgradable kits.
Sheesh. Kids these days think IBM invented the moon.
I'll get my revenge, though. Someday, you'll be reading Slashdot, and you'll see some youn'un give Dell all the credit. "Due to the build-to-order philosophy that Dell fostered, people have become comfortable tinkering with their hardware. Before point-and-click customizing, neanderthalls just stared blankly at their PCs, with no concept of what was inside."
You'll see.
Without net neutrality, you can just sign up for Fox News' new ISP. Any attempt to read about poverty, war, or pollution will be redirected instantly to more positive stories.
Hmmmmm...I wonder what will happen to all those iTunes songs once Apple moves to a new DRM or non-DRM format in the future and stops supporting their old format???
This is already happening. It's called iTunes Plus, a non-DRM AAC file at twice the bitrate of the standard iTunes offerings. The price for new songs is the same as for the DRM-d, lower-quality version. But only one of the big record companies will allow it so far.
Upgrades to the new format are currently US$ 0.30 for previously purchased songs My guess is, when/if Steve Jobs gets his way, the old authentication mechanism will be shut down, and you'll either have to pay up, or you'll be limited to playing your old content on the computers you've previously authenticated.
Against Windows, alternative OS's can't get significant traction. Period. No matter how good or how cheap.
Apple is making billions selling hardware, and it's smart enough to know better than to risk it.
http://www.hiram.nl/ipsedixit/artikel/793/boolean-search-in-spotlight
Undocumented, and the syntax is very picky and non-obvious.
You seem to be inexplicably tense. Perhaps you should relax for a while and watch a television program.
Or go to the theater, and watch a play. If you have any trouble understanding it, you might find more in the program they give you. Hold on to it, they're collectible.
Whatever you do, though, don't rely on alcohol to relieve your anxiety. If you become dependant on it, you may need a twelve-step program to get yourself back on track.
First, it's "Nazi."
Second, "In British English, it is generally accepted that collective nouns can take either singular or plural verb forms depending on the context and the metonymic shift that it implies. For example, "the team is in the dressing room" (formal agreement) refers to the team as an ensemble, whilst "the team are fighting among themselves" (notional agreement) refers to the team as individuals." (Source)
(/me is not normally a grammar or spelling Nazi, but I enjoy correcting them when they get it even slightly wrong.)
Ah, yes! The old "compact disc" strategy...
Have you checked the price of a CD player lately? They're half the price they were five years ago. Which, in turn, was half the price they were five years before that. And so on.
The prices of consumer electronics do indeed fall as the products become more and more widely adopted. The price of content, on the other hand, rises monotonically. Not because of increases in production or distribution costs, but because the media companies like it that way.
People said the EU couldn't fine Microsoft. Well, they did.
Who?
Yeah, yeah, offtopic.
If it is essential that a document be rendered identically on different machines, a word processor -- any word processor -- is the wrong tool for the job. If something needs to be viewed only, export to pdf; if it needs to be edited as well, use DTP software.
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You know, you're absolutely right! I'll just go explain this to my boss, and that will be the end of that!
Mmm. Well, anyway...I don't have to worry about that anymore! By the way, are you guys hiring?