I remember the local performing arts center getting new stage managers' consoles.
The stupid thing was that the que buttons were on a touch screen. So their was no non-visual feedback as to
wether it had been pressed or not. A stage manager has to keep their focus on the stage.
They went back to the old push button system.
This is just one example where the lack of kinaesthetic feedback makes touch screens a bad UI choice.
There are many more examples. Wherever one needs to operate a control without looking directly at that control
touch screens are a bad choice.
How can a strange Balinese dance perform better than SHA2 as a hash algorithm.
I'm sure that hash had something to do with the creation of the Kecak dance, but not the cryptographic sort.
That was one of the first sites I thought of when I saw this post. It looks like you can set your own block list up. So I'm going to be happy never to see Experts Exchange again.
The Mayans have no idea of scale, pah! cycles of only 3000 odd years! The Abrahamic religions with their piddling 6-8000 year timescales are also damn narrow thinkers.
Now, according to the Hindu teachers we're in Kali Yuga. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Yuga This is the last of 4 cycles, the one of dissolution and degeneration. (They've got the mood of the time right.) Hurry and get your things in order! There's only some 427000 years or so left!
I admire a belief system that has a long view of history...still nowhere near geological timescales though.
1) On CFLs. You have this one right. It's a ery obvious case of greenwash.
2) Getting plastic bags out of our waste would be a very good thing. I've seen how many end up in the ocean and affect sea life. I agree though that the supermarkets cynical approach is to sell us plastic bags that should be cheaper to make. Today I bought a 'biodegradeable' bag made from corn starch or some such thing for 15c. I can't see how cornstarch is more expensive than using oil to make plastic. Someone is profiteering, supermarkets or bag makers?
3) I don't see your point with solar hot water systems. My parents had one since the mid 1960's. It was replaced once and has given them hot water for four decades. They don't take much in the way of materials to make. Its only a metal and glass panel on the roof and a tank. The booster uses much less energy since on a cool day it's only usually having to heat the water from 30 or 40 degrees C. Most of the time the problem was that the water would come out TOO hot.
4) Water scarcity. You obviously don't live in marginal land. The current round of drought in Australia is getting critical. I do agree though that de-salination is not the way to go. Here in Australia we should be pouring less water into cattle, cotton and rice and growing more water efficient crops. Also it's mostly a distribution problem.
Your conclusion is spot on. Exponential growth in a finite world will lead to catastrophe. As far as I can see there's not a politician on the planet other than the Chinese communist government that have made any attempt to really address that issue.
I've driven forklifts, knuckle-booms, scissor lifts and loaders all with various forms of joystick control. Joystick controlled forklifts are the best!
Still, I'm not sure it's right for a car. All the vehicles above go slowly and need to manouver (sp?) in tight spots. Joysticks would not seem so good for fast travel, though aircraft use them.
It might be good to have a joystick as an auxilliary control for parking and doing donuts...
Even better, Have three vote counting programs. Then a majority vote between the three as to what the result really should be. For the little bit of software that counts the three votes from the voting programs, make three copies of that and it's turtles all the way down...
I'm not surprised that this is very complex. There's no reason that we should expect the outcome of a stochastic process to be elegant and simple. It's more evidence (as if we really need more!) that there is no designer.
I had someone try to pull the speaker scam on me late last year. Silly thing was that they were in the carpark of the theatre I worked in. It's not really a good idea to try selling crap speakers to a audio technician. Now, I could have really shown them some good speakers...
And why hassle with a club, unless it's to 'defend' yourself against the punk friends. I've seen thieves remove a club lock and start the car in the time it took for me to see them enter the car and get from my front door to the road...too late.
My charts are going to have to all be recalculated if Sedna is a planet. What a PITA if there ends up being 900 planets! How will I ever be able to calculate this week's horoscope before the week is up?
We should have stuck to the original five. Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. Earth doesn't count, since all these revolve around it.
Let's not mess with our destinies. Don't upset the natural systems any more.
Just because something makes economic sense does not mean it makes moral or ethical sense. Acting without morals for purely your own gain is sociopathic, regardless of the economic situation.
There was a piece in New Scientist last year making this exact point, and the researcher was able to explain most effects that are otherwise explained by dark matter, by slightly changing the theory of gravity.
Actually there was something in New Scientist this week. Though the story wont be accessible on the Web for a few days.
Ah, I wondered why svchost just crashed on my machine at work. Lets see if our sysadmin people notice anything awry. The daily virus scan certainly did not.
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I remember the local performing arts center getting new stage managers' consoles. The stupid thing was that the que buttons were on a touch screen. So their was no non-visual feedback as to wether it had been pressed or not. A stage manager has to keep their focus on the stage. They went back to the old push button system. This is just one example where the lack of kinaesthetic feedback makes touch screens a bad UI choice. There are many more examples. Wherever one needs to operate a control without looking directly at that control touch screens are a bad choice.
I have been to China. Never got patted down at the airport. The airport security was slow, inefficent and officious, but not invasive.
I saw the Kecak dance on my honeymoon in Ubud. I'd be interested to hear what that logical link might be.
How can a strange Balinese dance perform better than SHA2 as a hash algorithm. I'm sure that hash had something to do with the creation of the Kecak dance, but not the cryptographic sort.
POTS which was laid by Telecom Australia, not Telstra.
Actually most of the copper was probably laid by "The Post Master General" it's that old and decrepit.
That was one of the first sites I thought of when I saw this post.
It looks like you can set your own block list up. So I'm going to be happy never to see Experts Exchange again.
How would I pull this off?
Buy a lot of them then sell the duds to some dimwit at 50% off.
Because it's the Sagan Scale, and I think you missed the joke.
Yes but who will own the P.O.S.? And who's going to take responsibility for fueling it?
I dont think we have an ice belt in this system either.
"certifiable MCSE", there fixed that for you. No longer a tautology.
The Mayans have no idea of scale, pah! cycles of only 3000 odd years!
The Abrahamic religions with their piddling 6-8000 year timescales are also damn narrow thinkers.
Now, according to the Hindu teachers we're in Kali Yuga. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Yuga
This is the last of 4 cycles, the one of dissolution and degeneration. (They've got the mood of the time right.)
Hurry and get your things in order! There's only some 427000 years or so left!
I admire a belief system that has a long view of history...still nowhere near geological timescales though.
In reply to your points,
1) On CFLs. You have this one right. It's a ery obvious case of greenwash.
2) Getting plastic bags out of our waste would be a very good thing. I've seen how many end up in the ocean and affect sea life. I agree though that the
supermarkets cynical approach is to sell us plastic bags that should be cheaper to make. Today I bought a 'biodegradeable' bag made from corn starch or some such thing for 15c. I can't see how cornstarch is more expensive than using oil to make plastic. Someone is profiteering, supermarkets or bag makers?
3) I don't see your point with solar hot water systems. My parents had one since the mid 1960's. It was replaced once and has given them hot water for four decades. They don't take much in the way of materials to make. Its only a metal and glass panel on the roof and a tank. The booster uses much less energy since on a cool day it's only usually having to heat the water from 30 or 40 degrees C. Most of the time the problem was that the water would come out TOO hot.
4) Water scarcity. You obviously don't live in marginal land. The current round of drought in Australia is getting critical. I do agree though that de-salination is not the way to go. Here in Australia we should be pouring less water into cattle, cotton and rice and growing more water efficient crops. Also it's mostly a distribution problem.
Your conclusion is spot on. Exponential growth in a finite world will lead to catastrophe. As far as I can see there's not a politician on the planet other than the Chinese communist government that have made any attempt to really address that issue.
(Pun intended in title)
I've driven forklifts, knuckle-booms, scissor lifts and loaders all with various forms of joystick control.
Joystick controlled forklifts are the best!
Still, I'm not sure it's right for a car. All the vehicles above go slowly and need to manouver (sp?)
in tight spots. Joysticks would not seem so good for fast travel, though aircraft use them.
It might be good to have a joystick as an auxilliary control for parking and doing donuts...
In my part of the world at least, you need a lot of power to cool a bus from +40C to something more reasonable.
Perhaps I could export the heat from my buses to your buses.
Even better, Have three vote counting programs. Then a majority vote between the three as to what the result really should be. For the little bit of software that counts the three votes from the voting programs, make three copies of that and it's turtles all the way down...
Give the electric companies 2 choices: Fix your own damn shit with your profits or we fix it and lease it back to you or nationalize you.
That's three choices...
I'm not surprised that this is very complex. There's no reason that we should expect the outcome of a stochastic process to be elegant and simple. It's more evidence (as if we really need more!) that there is no designer.
I had someone try to pull the speaker scam on me late last year. Silly thing was that they were in the carpark of the theatre I worked in. It's not really a good idea to try selling crap speakers to a audio technician. Now, I could have really shown them some good speakers...
And why hassle with a club, unless it's to 'defend' yourself against the punk friends. I've seen thieves remove a club lock and start the car in the time it took for me to see them enter the car and get from my front door to the road...too late.
As soon as I finish porting the kernel to java...
My charts are going to have to all be recalculated if Sedna is a planet. What a PITA if there ends up being 900 planets! How will I ever be able to calculate this week's horoscope before the week is up?
We should have stuck to the original five. Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. Earth doesn't count, since all these revolve around it.
Let's not mess with our destinies. Don't upset the natural systems any more.
It is indeed sociopathic.
Just because something makes economic sense does not mean it makes moral or ethical sense. Acting without morals for purely your own gain is sociopathic, regardless of the economic situation.
You mean it makes you want to throw up?
Ah, I wondered why svchost just crashed on my machine at work. Lets see if our sysadmin people notice anything awry. The daily virus scan certainly did not.
Perhaps I should tell them.
Then again...