Glyphs occupy less screen space. That is a fundamental reason for their existence. You can put more functionality in front of the user without hiding it by using glyphs. People can also recognize symbols quicker than they can recognize strings of text. These glyphs were chosen at a time when they were actually relevant, so while they may seem irrelevant by todays standards (floppy disk icon), they have taken on a meaning of their own. Changing it for the sake of modernizing it makes no sense to me.
Some of those examples appear fine. He seems to have a personal seething hatred for anything that dares use a leather texture in any way, no matter how small or mundane it may be used for (i.e. background for a website toolbar: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5o6xzVsVT1royiqyo1_500.png) I might not personally enjoy leather but this harmless example just puzzles my mind.
Perhaps he would prefer a blue gradient here instead with some shine?
Depending on the usage, having an "unending undo" could be prohibitively expensive. I can't imagine the requirements of such a system while in a large photoshop document for instance. Just having 20 history slots in such a document can get unwieldy. I think if we erased saving altogether and went with unlimited undo/instant commit, we'd start seeing some sort of "snapshot" type system in the undo stack which essentially just reinvents saving in a traditional sense. Sometimes we want to start form a specific point and if it doesn't work out, go back to the beginning. Having to pinpoint the exact moment you started something in a gigantic list of user steps doesn't sound very great from a usability standpoint.
I just remember the last time my city was doing something and asked to remove a tree from our property. We agreed after minor reluctance, and the city left a giant stump in our yard after implying that the whole thing was being removed. Hopefully they'll honor their word by replacing the trees they cut down proper, not leaving the space empty and planting trees elsewhere sometime down the line.
You know little if anything about how Android operates, then, if that's the implication you got. Android OS patches like the one required to patch out the UI bouncy scroll functionality could be submitted through the android store Google Play as a mandatory update. I made no such implication that a recall was necessary to do anything I said. Your own lack of familiarity with the topic brought you to that conclusion, and that is hardly my fault.
It amazes me how often lawyers try to redact information from the public by changing the foreground and background to black when we can just select the text to reveal it.
Their counterclaim is full of not-so-redacted text.
Said it better than I was going to. I have a hard time believing this person is actual an administrator with these complaints. Maybe just for his family home network.
How could you even come to such an amazingly inept conclusion? He was saying the judge could have ordered the feature be patched out through a software update like all other system software updates that don't need physical access to the device. A mass recall over a removable UI feature is like detonating a nuclear device to wipe out an ant hill. Golly gee wiz, you Apple people...
Basically, you seem like you'd be happy if I served you a glass of my piss, but before I served it to you I removed 60% of the piss and replaced it with pure water.
Are you implying that 40% of the ocean is now oil?
I taught myself how to drive on a farm, in an old manual transmission beater pickup (caveat, the old man did have to show me how the whole clutch-shift-clutch thing worked at first; ah, nostalgia...); I currently hold Class F, M, CDL-B and C licenses, as well as powersport and boating licenses (pretty much bullshit, but required by the state). I also have a clean driving record. Clearly, I know how to drive damn near anything with wheels, and a number of vehicles without - what about you?
Well I wasn't trying to get into a pissing match or anything. I was merely pointing out that you seemed to trivialize it more than it actually is. I don't dispute that it's pretty easy to get your standard class C license, I just have never heard of things like taking your final driving test in a parking lot before. I can't even see the point except for risk-free parallel parking testing with cones. In California, I also hold a CDL-B, C, M1, boating license (I agree it's a bullshit license), and hopefully in the next year or two going to finally get my CDL-A.
Seriously? I don't know what state/county you got your license in but I've never heard of anything so lax. I have never heard of a license driving test being administered in a parking lot, which I assume is just you exaggerating to make your point more extreme. I know where I live we are not only told to drive down many streets (including things like one-way, etc) but we're also told to get on the highway and perform all number of maneuvers multiple times.
You also gloss over the period where you have a provisional license which legally forbids you from driving alone or without someone 18 years of age or older (25 if you're under 18) who also carries a valid license. The whole point of this stage is for someone to be teaching you. If you had no one teaching you/weren't able to practice and you passed the driving portion of the DMV test (including parallel parking) then I have to wonder how you pulled that off or what state passed you, because clearly the local DMV there is not doing its job.
Sure it does. Open source can mean nothing more than the source (in this case the recipe) is available. The whole Free Software definition of open source isn't the only valid one, or even the first.
On a side note, given that recipes can't be protected by copyright, I have to wonder if they can even enforce a non-commercial clause in the license. Seems anyone could recreate the beer from the recipe and sell it if they saw fit.
It is absolutely nothing similar to what you're describing. Quoting someone else that addresses your naive point well (they actually read the article! imagine that):
Students were pulled from their classes, forced to work 12-hour shifts, and punished if they protested or tried to leave. None of this was voluntary, and all of it highly illegal even by Chinese law. The students were paid a very nominal amount, but were billed for room and board which clawed that money right back to the factory, meaning this is a "Sixteen Tons" situation where the students didn't actually get paid.
As for the "work experience," it consisted of snapping parts together and filling boxes. The students were studying Law and English. The factory work had no educational value of any kind, not are any of the students getting the references or connections customarily associated with internships.
Are you getting this yet? The students were grabbed from school, shipped to the factory and made to work 12-hour shifts. No one had agreed to any of this. Anyone who talked back or tried to leave was punished.
The nicest label you can slap on this is "impressment," which is just a fancy way of saying slavery. So let me get this straight. A national healthcare plan is "enslaving doctors," but grabbing kids out of class and forcing them to work 12-hour shifts without pay is "valuable work experience?"
It's only voluntary in the sense, "You can leave but we won't be letting you graduate."
Almost every service based company does this where I live in California. I can't help but think it happens almost everywhere. This isn't really anything new.
(How different is this from bottled water, anyway? The tap water in most places affluent enough to afford bottled water is perfectly safe.)
The issue isn't always about safety (though people may just be generally put off when their particular tap water comes out of the faucet light brown), but also taste. I grew up drinking tap water in San Diego. It's not bad tap water, but unless it's refrigerated or you're really thirsty, you might not like the taste.
That is the only reason I would ever reach for bottled water, and do from time to time. It provides me with a better taste than I would otherwise get. It's the same reason someone might chose to drink a Pepsi instead of a Coke. I always keep a case of bottled water around, but I don't pound them down so my cost is rarely over $5 a month. Certainly well more than I pay for the same amount of tap water, but it's worth it for me on taste alone.
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On top of that, the food tastes better.
I hear this from time to time but from personal experience I have never noticed a difference in taste between organic and GM crops.
Adobe just won't provide support for it.
You have those?
So...Pause?
Glyphs occupy less screen space. That is a fundamental reason for their existence. You can put more functionality in front of the user without hiding it by using glyphs. People can also recognize symbols quicker than they can recognize strings of text. These glyphs were chosen at a time when they were actually relevant, so while they may seem irrelevant by todays standards (floppy disk icon), they have taken on a meaning of their own. Changing it for the sake of modernizing it makes no sense to me.
No kidding! Lotus Notes made me want to beat kittens. I am so glad I'm away from that crap.
Some of those examples appear fine. He seems to have a personal seething hatred for anything that dares use a leather texture in any way, no matter how small or mundane it may be used for (i.e. background for a website toolbar: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5o6xzVsVT1royiqyo1_500.png) I might not personally enjoy leather but this harmless example just puzzles my mind.
Perhaps he would prefer a blue gradient here instead with some shine?
Depending on the usage, having an "unending undo" could be prohibitively expensive. I can't imagine the requirements of such a system while in a large photoshop document for instance. Just having 20 history slots in such a document can get unwieldy. I think if we erased saving altogether and went with unlimited undo/instant commit, we'd start seeing some sort of "snapshot" type system in the undo stack which essentially just reinvents saving in a traditional sense. Sometimes we want to start form a specific point and if it doesn't work out, go back to the beginning. Having to pinpoint the exact moment you started something in a gigantic list of user steps doesn't sound very great from a usability standpoint.
Wow, total comprehension fail. That was his entire point.
I just remember the last time my city was doing something and asked to remove a tree from our property. We agreed after minor reluctance, and the city left a giant stump in our yard after implying that the whole thing was being removed. Hopefully they'll honor their word by replacing the trees they cut down proper, not leaving the space empty and planting trees elsewhere sometime down the line.
Not going to happen anytime soon, guys.
You continue to repeatedly display your ignorance. It's not worth discussing this with you further.
You know little if anything about how Android operates, then, if that's the implication you got. Android OS patches like the one required to patch out the UI bouncy scroll functionality could be submitted through the android store Google Play as a mandatory update. I made no such implication that a recall was necessary to do anything I said. Your own lack of familiarity with the topic brought you to that conclusion, and that is hardly my fault.
That's not even remotely what I said.
It amazes me how often lawyers try to redact information from the public by changing the foreground and background to black when we can just select the text to reveal it.
Their counterclaim is full of not-so-redacted text.
Said it better than I was going to. I have a hard time believing this person is actual an administrator with these complaints. Maybe just for his family home network.
How could you even come to such an amazingly inept conclusion? He was saying the judge could have ordered the feature be patched out through a software update like all other system software updates that don't need physical access to the device. A mass recall over a removable UI feature is like detonating a nuclear device to wipe out an ant hill. Golly gee wiz, you Apple people...
Basically, you seem like you'd be happy if I served you a glass of my piss, but before I served it to you I removed 60% of the piss and replaced it with pure water.
Are you implying that 40% of the ocean is now oil?
I taught myself how to drive on a farm, in an old manual transmission beater pickup (caveat, the old man did have to show me how the whole clutch-shift-clutch thing worked at first; ah, nostalgia...); I currently hold Class F, M, CDL-B and C licenses, as well as powersport and boating licenses (pretty much bullshit, but required by the state). I also have a clean driving record. Clearly, I know how to drive damn near anything with wheels, and a number of vehicles without - what about you?
Well I wasn't trying to get into a pissing match or anything. I was merely pointing out that you seemed to trivialize it more than it actually is. I don't dispute that it's pretty easy to get your standard class C license, I just have never heard of things like taking your final driving test in a parking lot before. I can't even see the point except for risk-free parallel parking testing with cones. In California, I also hold a CDL-B, C, M1, boating license (I agree it's a bullshit license), and hopefully in the next year or two going to finally get my CDL-A.
Seriously? I don't know what state/county you got your license in but I've never heard of anything so lax. I have never heard of a license driving test being administered in a parking lot, which I assume is just you exaggerating to make your point more extreme. I know where I live we are not only told to drive down many streets (including things like one-way, etc) but we're also told to get on the highway and perform all number of maneuvers multiple times.
You also gloss over the period where you have a provisional license which legally forbids you from driving alone or without someone 18 years of age or older (25 if you're under 18) who also carries a valid license. The whole point of this stage is for someone to be teaching you. If you had no one teaching you/weren't able to practice and you passed the driving portion of the DMV test (including parallel parking) then I have to wonder how you pulled that off or what state passed you, because clearly the local DMV there is not doing its job.
Sure it does. Open source can mean nothing more than the source (in this case the recipe) is available. The whole Free Software definition of open source isn't the only valid one, or even the first.
On a side note, given that recipes can't be protected by copyright, I have to wonder if they can even enforce a non-commercial clause in the license. Seems anyone could recreate the beer from the recipe and sell it if they saw fit.
It is absolutely nothing similar to what you're describing. Quoting someone else that addresses your naive point well (they actually read the article! imagine that):
Students were pulled from their classes, forced to work 12-hour shifts, and punished if they protested or tried to leave. None of this was voluntary, and all of it highly illegal even by Chinese law. The students were paid a very nominal amount, but were billed for room and board which clawed that money right back to the factory, meaning this is a "Sixteen Tons" situation where the students didn't actually get paid.
As for the "work experience," it consisted of snapping parts together and filling boxes. The students were studying Law and English. The factory work had no educational value of any kind, not are any of the students getting the references or connections customarily associated with internships.
Are you getting this yet? The students were grabbed from school, shipped to the factory and made to work 12-hour shifts. No one had agreed to any of this. Anyone who talked back or tried to leave was punished.
The nicest label you can slap on this is "impressment," which is just a fancy way of saying slavery. So let me get this straight. A national healthcare plan is "enslaving doctors," but grabbing kids out of class and forcing them to work 12-hour shifts without pay is "valuable work experience?"
It's only voluntary in the sense, "You can leave but we won't be letting you graduate."
That is not voluntary.
Almost every service based company does this where I live in California. I can't help but think it happens almost everywhere. This isn't really anything new.
How did you get 3 billion to scrap it out of the actual 640 million?
(How different is this from bottled water, anyway? The tap water in most places affluent enough to afford bottled water is perfectly safe.)
The issue isn't always about safety (though people may just be generally put off when their particular tap water comes out of the faucet light brown), but also taste. I grew up drinking tap water in San Diego. It's not bad tap water, but unless it's refrigerated or you're really thirsty, you might not like the taste.
That is the only reason I would ever reach for bottled water, and do from time to time. It provides me with a better taste than I would otherwise get. It's the same reason someone might chose to drink a Pepsi instead of a Coke. I always keep a case of bottled water around, but I don't pound them down so my cost is rarely over $5 a month. Certainly well more than I pay for the same amount of tap water, but it's worth it for me on taste alone.