That's sort of the thing there. Way too many interfaces these days are designed by graphic designers rather than people that know/care about usability. It's a good thing to have a set of keyboard shortcuts to handle every task, but the user should be able to find everything under a well organized menu of some sort.
Personally, I find the interface from VueScan to be an object lesson in powerful yet minimally cluttered. Options which do not function in the current mode don't show up at all. Leaving just the ones that the user might actually want to use. (Well the user might want those other ones, but they don't do anything so they aren't there.
I find vi to be one of the most usable text editors ever devised, but that did require a certain amount of study on my part to learn the shortcuts that I needed to work with it. Once I did learn a dozen or so commands, the program greatly increased my efficiency working with text files.
TL;DR, dumbing down an interface isn't the path to a usable interface.
Part of the problem with the mod system is that people don't bother to read the guidelines. Jokes are not offtopic, they might be flamebait or trolling, but they're not offtopic if they have any correlation at all to the topic.
They need to revert to the older system, the current one is just way too much work to be of any value. Previously, you could just give the use an up or down vote. So, you'd give it an up vote if something was +insightful even if it might be +informative or +interesting. Or down if it should have been +offtopic, +trolling or +flamebait.
The new system involves as much work as doing the mod in the first place at which point they might as well just start providing random lists of posts to mod.
When they changed the meta-moderation system I stopped meta-moderating. I'd be surprised if I were the only one that stopped. The older system of an up or down vote was a lot easier to do, without actually spending huge amounts of time, it's just too hard to figure out what the moderation should have been.
They could also provide an easier way of reporting abuses of mod points.
Not being live is a serious problem with it. MLB was the one I was looking at and it turned out to be significantly worse than what you'd get through cable. Anything under a regional black out would still not be available and you could only access the streams after the game was over.
Personally, I don't need or want to have cable or a dish, but for folks that want live sports there's basically only one game in town.
That being said, we get more channels over the air now than we used to, but the number is still quite low and you're only going to see a few games like that.
That works fine as long as you don't want to watch sports. Pretty much everything else can be viewed by hooking up a laptop or set top device to the TV.
Most likely, although I do come across projects from time to time that have been abandoned for years that would have been useful if they had made it to critical mass. And those sorts of projects can easily die if they don't attract enough attention early on to handle the lead developer leaving.
2/0.5mbps isn't slow. There's plenty of folks around these parts that would be thrilled for the upgrade. Personally, I'm fortunate enough to live in a part of the city where I can get somewhat quicker service.
That being said, I'm jealous of the UK in this case, it's not likely that I'll have access to a connection like that at any price until sometime in the 2020s at the earliest unless something is done to break up the regional duopoly between CenturyLink and Comcast.
It's likely to be cancer related, I mean he has been fighting cancer for awhile now.
Ultimately, this will likely either vindicate him as the secret sauce or prove him to be less significant to Apple's comeback than engineers and folks like Johnathon Ive.
It's not any more suspicious than any other antimalware program. The typical way of telling is that you run the file and see what happens. Of course you don't want to run the file on your computer, but I remember years ago when antivirus software started actually running the programs in a VM to see if it tried to do anything suspicious.
Ultimately you're going to get false positives from time to time, but that's the case with any software and if it gets it wrong you'll hear about it.
Which is a good thing, regulation isn't an all or nothing prospect. We have gone far enough down that particular road to see that it ends with a cliff, but if we keep going, apparently, there's an invisible hand building an invisible bridge which will help us cross the chasm to prosperity.
You'll have to forgive my skepticism given that the partial deregulation of the banking industry in the US nearly took down the entire world's economy when they created enough derivatives to dwarf the world's production capabilities for many, many years.
As for your contention that regulation is killing small businesses, as long as there are significant consequences from getting it wrong, regulations need to remain. They are ultimately for our protection and you're not going to fix problems in industry by removing the consequences of bad behavior.
You're forgetting that one of the things that was rewarded during that period was who one was as much as what one accomplished. Failing to be white would, even more than now, greatly diminish the access one had to education and ensure that one would spend that time and energy just catching up.
On top of that, there were other problems with it such as poverty being an acceptable reason for education to be withheld.
Sure, liberals have lowered the average GPA, but they lowered it by providing access to education which conservatives aren't interested in providing. In the long run it's better for everybody to have more educated people in the voting public.
They don't take it to court because they'd have to send somebody to court to testify. If needing a positive ID to issue a citation were necessary nobody would ever get a parking ticket that wasn't caught getting into or out of the improperly parked car.
Around here you're best off in one of the modern high rises. Just make sure that you're not next to one as panes of glass can fall. I think most of those will happily handle an 8.0+ earthquake
OTOH, outside you have falling glass and electric lines to worry about.
Of course it would save lives, but the problem is that the predictions aren't very good. Knowing that an earthquake was going to be hitting in 20 minutes would allow for people to head outside and turn off the gas to their house, then go inside and go to whatever room has the fewest windows and hanging objects and secure them before hunkering down under the strongest table available.
That being said, for the most part if you live in a region that gets earthquakes you'll know about it and the building codes ought to already account for that.
They shouldn't have immunity. The closest thing we have in the US is for Senators on their way to the Senate. AFAIK, that just applies to not being arrested or detained on the way to the Senate, not immunity to charges that might be brought.
That's the theory behind Immunet, once one of the computers is infected by a new virus it's analyzed pretty much immediately and a signature is added before the virus has a chance to infect more machines. It doesn't stop new infections, but it does diminish the spread.
I'm not sure how well it ultimately works, but the basic theory behind it is sound.
Another thing that could happen would be for the ISP to throttle the connection back to dial up speed for infected computers downloading anything other than antivirus software. The main concern I'd have there would be false positives and the inherent reward of throttling users.
They've proposed it and being Democrats if they get it into place it will be thrown out by SCOTUS. OTOH, I'd be more worried about GOP proposals of that nature as they have the court pretty well packed in their favor at this point. Just look at the questionable World Vision ruling that allows them to only hire Christians to work for them.
It's not essentially slander, it's a necessity to keep the historical account accurate. Without allowing people to criticize and require proof for things that seem certain, you get a situation where the understanding spirals out of control.
What precisely would happen if the reality really was that there was no holocaust and that actually those folks are fine on some distant planet having flown there on a Nazi UFO? Sure, that's a ridiculous suggestion, but without the freedom to deny or question the holocaust you wouldn't get the debate necessary to settle it for certain.
That surprises me, I haven't had much trouble at all with Firefox in years. It seems to have more trouble on Linux, but even there it doesn't crash that often.
Just because assholes feel the compulsion to point it out, doesn't mean that it's obligatory. It just means that you need to start taking you're medication again.
Assuming they give the prize to the persons primary accomplishment. Often times you find the committee doing things like giving the prize to Einstein for his work on the photoelectric effect rather than for his work on relativity. He won it for relativity, but they awarded it to a less controversial body of work.
I got to ride the TGV when I was in Europe and I was definitely impressed. You're definitely correct about the lack of vibration, compared to the much slower moving AmTrack trains we have in the US, it was without any meaningful sense of either vibration or speed.
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That's sort of the thing there. Way too many interfaces these days are designed by graphic designers rather than people that know/care about usability. It's a good thing to have a set of keyboard shortcuts to handle every task, but the user should be able to find everything under a well organized menu of some sort.
Personally, I find the interface from VueScan to be an object lesson in powerful yet minimally cluttered. Options which do not function in the current mode don't show up at all. Leaving just the ones that the user might actually want to use. (Well the user might want those other ones, but they don't do anything so they aren't there.
I find vi to be one of the most usable text editors ever devised, but that did require a certain amount of study on my part to learn the shortcuts that I needed to work with it. Once I did learn a dozen or so commands, the program greatly increased my efficiency working with text files.
TL;DR, dumbing down an interface isn't the path to a usable interface.
Part of the problem with the mod system is that people don't bother to read the guidelines. Jokes are not offtopic, they might be flamebait or trolling, but they're not offtopic if they have any correlation at all to the topic.
They need to revert to the older system, the current one is just way too much work to be of any value. Previously, you could just give the use an up or down vote. So, you'd give it an up vote if something was +insightful even if it might be +informative or +interesting. Or down if it should have been +offtopic, +trolling or +flamebait.
The new system involves as much work as doing the mod in the first place at which point they might as well just start providing random lists of posts to mod.
When they changed the meta-moderation system I stopped meta-moderating. I'd be surprised if I were the only one that stopped. The older system of an up or down vote was a lot easier to do, without actually spending huge amounts of time, it's just too hard to figure out what the moderation should have been.
They could also provide an easier way of reporting abuses of mod points.
Not being live is a serious problem with it. MLB was the one I was looking at and it turned out to be significantly worse than what you'd get through cable. Anything under a regional black out would still not be available and you could only access the streams after the game was over.
Personally, I don't need or want to have cable or a dish, but for folks that want live sports there's basically only one game in town.
That being said, we get more channels over the air now than we used to, but the number is still quite low and you're only going to see a few games like that.
That works fine as long as you don't want to watch sports. Pretty much everything else can be viewed by hooking up a laptop or set top device to the TV.
Unfortunately, due to copyright law, they can stall it a good while.
Most likely, although I do come across projects from time to time that have been abandoned for years that would have been useful if they had made it to critical mass. And those sorts of projects can easily die if they don't attract enough attention early on to handle the lead developer leaving.
2/0.5mbps isn't slow. There's plenty of folks around these parts that would be thrilled for the upgrade. Personally, I'm fortunate enough to live in a part of the city where I can get somewhat quicker service.
That being said, I'm jealous of the UK in this case, it's not likely that I'll have access to a connection like that at any price until sometime in the 2020s at the earliest unless something is done to break up the regional duopoly between CenturyLink and Comcast.
It's likely to be cancer related, I mean he has been fighting cancer for awhile now.
Ultimately, this will likely either vindicate him as the secret sauce or prove him to be less significant to Apple's comeback than engineers and folks like Johnathon Ive.
It's not any more suspicious than any other antimalware program. The typical way of telling is that you run the file and see what happens. Of course you don't want to run the file on your computer, but I remember years ago when antivirus software started actually running the programs in a VM to see if it tried to do anything suspicious.
Ultimately you're going to get false positives from time to time, but that's the case with any software and if it gets it wrong you'll hear about it.
Which is a good thing, regulation isn't an all or nothing prospect. We have gone far enough down that particular road to see that it ends with a cliff, but if we keep going, apparently, there's an invisible hand building an invisible bridge which will help us cross the chasm to prosperity.
You'll have to forgive my skepticism given that the partial deregulation of the banking industry in the US nearly took down the entire world's economy when they created enough derivatives to dwarf the world's production capabilities for many, many years.
As for your contention that regulation is killing small businesses, as long as there are significant consequences from getting it wrong, regulations need to remain. They are ultimately for our protection and you're not going to fix problems in industry by removing the consequences of bad behavior.
You're forgetting that one of the things that was rewarded during that period was who one was as much as what one accomplished. Failing to be white would, even more than now, greatly diminish the access one had to education and ensure that one would spend that time and energy just catching up.
On top of that, there were other problems with it such as poverty being an acceptable reason for education to be withheld.
Sure, liberals have lowered the average GPA, but they lowered it by providing access to education which conservatives aren't interested in providing. In the long run it's better for everybody to have more educated people in the voting public.
They don't take it to court because they'd have to send somebody to court to testify. If needing a positive ID to issue a citation were necessary nobody would ever get a parking ticket that wasn't caught getting into or out of the improperly parked car.
Around here you're best off in one of the modern high rises. Just make sure that you're not next to one as panes of glass can fall. I think most of those will happily handle an 8.0+ earthquake
OTOH, outside you have falling glass and electric lines to worry about.
Of course it would save lives, but the problem is that the predictions aren't very good. Knowing that an earthquake was going to be hitting in 20 minutes would allow for people to head outside and turn off the gas to their house, then go inside and go to whatever room has the fewest windows and hanging objects and secure them before hunkering down under the strongest table available.
That being said, for the most part if you live in a region that gets earthquakes you'll know about it and the building codes ought to already account for that.
They shouldn't have immunity. The closest thing we have in the US is for Senators on their way to the Senate. AFAIK, that just applies to not being arrested or detained on the way to the Senate, not immunity to charges that might be brought.
That's the theory behind Immunet, once one of the computers is infected by a new virus it's analyzed pretty much immediately and a signature is added before the virus has a chance to infect more machines. It doesn't stop new infections, but it does diminish the spread.
I'm not sure how well it ultimately works, but the basic theory behind it is sound.
Another thing that could happen would be for the ISP to throttle the connection back to dial up speed for infected computers downloading anything other than antivirus software. The main concern I'd have there would be false positives and the inherent reward of throttling users.
I'm not sure. They would have issues with enforcing any ruling, but Italy does try people in Absentia.
They've proposed it and being Democrats if they get it into place it will be thrown out by SCOTUS. OTOH, I'd be more worried about GOP proposals of that nature as they have the court pretty well packed in their favor at this point. Just look at the questionable World Vision ruling that allows them to only hire Christians to work for them.
It's not essentially slander, it's a necessity to keep the historical account accurate. Without allowing people to criticize and require proof for things that seem certain, you get a situation where the understanding spirals out of control.
What precisely would happen if the reality really was that there was no holocaust and that actually those folks are fine on some distant planet having flown there on a Nazi UFO? Sure, that's a ridiculous suggestion, but without the freedom to deny or question the holocaust you wouldn't get the debate necessary to settle it for certain.
That surprises me, I haven't had much trouble at all with Firefox in years. It seems to have more trouble on Linux, but even there it doesn't crash that often.
Just because assholes feel the compulsion to point it out, doesn't mean that it's obligatory. It just means that you need to start taking you're medication again.
Assuming they give the prize to the persons primary accomplishment. Often times you find the committee doing things like giving the prize to Einstein for his work on the photoelectric effect rather than for his work on relativity. He won it for relativity, but they awarded it to a less controversial body of work.
I got to ride the TGV when I was in Europe and I was definitely impressed. You're definitely correct about the lack of vibration, compared to the much slower moving AmTrack trains we have in the US, it was without any meaningful sense of either vibration or speed.