So your response is "Yes, I did basically conjure everything in my post out of thin air, but I'm still right because I'm afraid of change, even though someone just demonstrated the new interface is just as good for me as the old one."
Do you actually use Office with the Ribbon? On Word 2013, Bold, Italics, Justify, Bullets and Sort are all on the Home tab. The only option on a different tab is Table, which you can right click and click "Add to Quick Access" to put it in the top bar if you use it so often. Even if there wasn't a quick access bar, the customise options are still available, in Options -> Customise Ribbon.
So, to counter your post, there are 2 ribbons for your six commonly used features, with the option to easily add the 6th feature into the first ribbon.
If you spoke to a misbehaving boy, and told him to write 100 lines saying "I will not call the other kids bad names", would you accept his response if he wrote his hundred lines followed by "BUT THOSE OTHER KIDS ARE STILL POOPYHEADS"? No, you would ask him to do more lines, or come up with a different punishment entirely.
The behaviour of Apple in this instance is equivalent to a petulant child, and they are the only ones to blame if the court has to treat them as such.
Also note that some of the issues on the Tumblr blog are not real either. So those should be dropped from consideration too, right?
If you can show they're not real, sure. However, when the BBC carries it as a news story, where maps in the UK are missing entire well-known towns (Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon, for example), and others are moved miles out of place, it shows that it really is a widespread issue. This is really basic stuff.
Apple had to launch maps in a beta state
Which, as they've stated they simply didn't renew the agreement with Google, increasingly looks like their own fault.
there simply is no other way to start improving it rapidly or really at all.
I'd be interested to hear how they will gather user feedback on individual mistakes, as from searching I cannot see any mechanism by which it's possible to provide that feedback with creating a Tumblr account and hoping Apple look at it. What they should have done in the first place, is:
a) Swallow their pride and renew Google Maps for another year or two, then b) Pay a decent amount of money for proper maps from the myriad of mapping organisations that have accurate data.
Yeah, all your examples are from 2010, and from cursory glance, they're all resolved. Also you included at least one link to errors that were appearing in Google Places, not Google Maps.
You might think it's unfair that we're judging a map that's been out for less than a month to one that's been out for years, but if you're going to release a new product it's going to be compared to what is currently available. The fact is, there are too many errors in obvious stuff - misspelled capital cities, duplications of entire islands, famous landmarks with incorrect coastlines. It's a complete abandonment of the philosophy of "It Just Works".
Actually, I'm pretty sure all you'd need is a couple of screenshots with the watermark in. If you know the location of the watermark, you can start building the information out of just one, and two or three would give you enough.
And if someone posts a screenshot of them playing on a private server, or of them botting on a real server on a different website where their account name doesn't match, how on earth would you link that to an active player without something in the image?
For 'hysterical nonsense', it's quite well written, and appropriately sourced. Most of the comments are unable to refute the article's points without making irrelevant comparisons to Windows. Which brings me to:
It also ignores that many of the same exact problems exist for Windows
Even if this was true, why would it matter? Just because it's broken in more than one place, doesn't mean it shouldn't be fixed.
What the USADA is saying is that the kind of doping that Lance Armstrong was allegedly going through with (example, blood doping) is very hard to detect, and as such tests at the time and even now have problems picking it up. What they do have is more than a dozen people willing to testify that they saw him do it.
He already tried to block the decision via the US courts and failed. He still had plenty of options left to fight the charge, including actually turning up to discussions they invited him to and also involving independent bodies like the Court of Arbitration for Sport, but instead of that he's given up and said he can't be bothered. Whether that shows that he's just weary of being persecuted or he realised he can't win, or whether it's a tacit admission of guilt, will probably be debated for years to come.
As it is, he won't dispute the charge so he's guilty, and it's a sad ending regardless.
Ha ha ha! Oh gosh, that's funny! That's really funny! Do you write your own material? Do you? Because that is so fresh. "Windows crashes all the time!". You know, I've, I've never heard anyone make that joke before. Hmm. You're the first. I've never heard anyone reference, reference that in geek circles before. Because that's what always used to happen? Isn't it? Windows crashing. And, and yet you've taken that and used it out of context to insult Microsoft in this everyday situation. God what a clever, smart person you must be, to come up with a joke like that all by yourself. That's so fresh too. Any, any Dr. DOS jokes you want to throw at me too as long as we're hitting these phenomena at the height of their popularity? God you're so funny!
Colour me confused. That article clearly states that he did have a right to record them, that this was upheld by the court, and that Boston settled out of court and paid him $170,000.
For anyone who doesn't want to read it, he filmed the police and, after asking if it included audio, they arrested him for breach of the peace, wiretapping and another charge they basically invented. After it inevitably didn't go anywhere and they refused to investigate internally, he sued the city for violation of his 1st and 4th amendment rights, and they appealed that they had a right to confiscate his equipment under wiretapping laws. However, the judge said he had his constitutional rights to record, and it couldn't have been wiretapping because the camera was in plain sight.
So, contrary to the GP's statement, they actually affirmed Glik's right to record the police as long as he does it openly and doesn't get in the way of an arrest, which is exactly what the DC police just did.
Isn't it just a logical progression from rendering parts of the desktop on 7 using DirectX, to doing the same for the layout on Word? I mean, any processing you can offload from the CPU is generally a good thing, especially when you're not using the GPU at all.
It also does point out hardware acceleration isn't actually required.
I'm not American, but I do agree - I thought the point was that the government already has the power to do exactly what SOPA is "for" - it just removed due process requirements to do it.
Yes. He's saying that providing an estimate of the license fee for one patent in and of itself does not prove the amount of damages Motorola requires, essentially because of the ambiguity between the price of a single patent and the price of the collective patents aren't exactly the same. FRAND makes no rule nor mention of how much individual patents should cost when licensed outside of the pool, which is essential as the other patents were dismissed from the case.
He made no value judgement as to whether he considered the higher price for a single patent was fair or not. He certainly didn't use the word excessive. To exceed something, and to be excessive, are two different things with different connotations.
Posner only said that they weren't being clear in what damages they were, not that they were excessive. In fact, he specifically points out that Apple are running the risk of being ordered to pay that amount or more by the court.
You missed my point - I'm saying you have to trust every government of that country forever, which means you can't just keep it in one place. Furthermore, you give it to a private company (as it is now), that company is still beholden to the laws of the country it's created in, and you haven't solved a single thing.
I don't care to get into the argument about who created what. However, even if you did create it, it still doesn't mean you get to control it forever. Sometimes it's deemed of a higher benefit to the human race to have that control taken away from people who can't act responsibly, regardless of their role beforehand.
"But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months." "Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything." "But the plans were on display..." "On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them." "That's the display department." "With a flashlight." "Ah, well the lights had probably gone." "So had the stairs." "But look, you found the notice didn't you?" "Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."
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So your response is "Yes, I did basically conjure everything in my post out of thin air, but I'm still right because I'm afraid of change, even though someone just demonstrated the new interface is just as good for me as the old one."
Got it.
I'm commenting on Office 2013 because that's the version I have.
Having booted up a different computer that has Office 2007, I can confirm it has the same layout.
Do you actually use Office with the Ribbon? On Word 2013, Bold, Italics, Justify, Bullets and Sort are all on the Home tab. The only option on a different tab is Table, which you can right click and click "Add to Quick Access" to put it in the top bar if you use it so often. Even if there wasn't a quick access bar, the customise options are still available, in Options -> Customise Ribbon.
So, to counter your post, there are 2 ribbons for your six commonly used features, with the option to easily add the 6th feature into the first ribbon.
Well, unlocking the bootloader is not the same as rooting, which is why it's more news than it people give it credit for.
An analogy (sorry, not a car analogy).
If you spoke to a misbehaving boy, and told him to write 100 lines saying "I will not call the other kids bad names", would you accept his response if he wrote his hundred lines followed by "BUT THOSE OTHER KIDS ARE STILL POOPYHEADS"? No, you would ask him to do more lines, or come up with a different punishment entirely.
The behaviour of Apple in this instance is equivalent to a petulant child, and they are the only ones to blame if the court has to treat them as such.
They're not recording your sexual orientation. They recorded your interest in gay rights, nothing more.
Slippery slopes are a fallacy for a reason.
Also note that some of the issues on the Tumblr blog are not real either. So those should be dropped from consideration too, right?
If you can show they're not real, sure. However, when the BBC carries it as a news story, where maps in the UK are missing entire well-known towns (Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon, for example), and others are moved miles out of place, it shows that it really is a widespread issue. This is really basic stuff.
Apple had to launch maps in a beta state
Which, as they've stated they simply didn't renew the agreement with Google, increasingly looks like their own fault.
there simply is no other way to start improving it rapidly or really at all.
I'd be interested to hear how they will gather user feedback on individual mistakes, as from searching I cannot see any mechanism by which it's possible to provide that feedback with creating a Tumblr account and hoping Apple look at it. What they should have done in the first place, is:
a) Swallow their pride and renew Google Maps for another year or two, then
b) Pay a decent amount of money for proper maps from the myriad of mapping organisations that have accurate data.
Yeah, all your examples are from 2010, and from cursory glance, they're all resolved. Also you included at least one link to errors that were appearing in Google Places, not Google Maps.
You might think it's unfair that we're judging a map that's been out for less than a month to one that's been out for years, but if you're going to release a new product it's going to be compared to what is currently available. The fact is, there are too many errors in obvious stuff - misspelled capital cities, duplications of entire islands, famous landmarks with incorrect coastlines. It's a complete abandonment of the philosophy of "It Just Works".
Actually, I'm pretty sure all you'd need is a couple of screenshots with the watermark in. If you know the location of the watermark, you can start building the information out of just one, and two or three would give you enough.
And if someone posts a screenshot of them playing on a private server, or of them botting on a real server on a different website where their account name doesn't match, how on earth would you link that to an active player without something in the image?
That page is hysterical nonsense.
For 'hysterical nonsense', it's quite well written, and appropriately sourced. Most of the comments are unable to refute the article's points without making irrelevant comparisons to Windows. Which brings me to:
It also ignores that many of the same exact problems exist for Windows
Even if this was true, why would it matter? Just because it's broken in more than one place, doesn't mean it shouldn't be fixed.
No, that's not what's being said at all.
What the USADA is saying is that the kind of doping that Lance Armstrong was allegedly going through with (example, blood doping) is very hard to detect, and as such tests at the time and even now have problems picking it up. What they do have is more than a dozen people willing to testify that they saw him do it.
He already tried to block the decision via the US courts and failed. He still had plenty of options left to fight the charge, including actually turning up to discussions they invited him to and also involving independent bodies like the Court of Arbitration for Sport, but instead of that he's given up and said he can't be bothered. Whether that shows that he's just weary of being persecuted or he realised he can't win, or whether it's a tacit admission of guilt, will probably be debated for years to come.
As it is, he won't dispute the charge so he's guilty, and it's a sad ending regardless.
Ha ha ha! Oh gosh, that's funny! That's really funny! Do you write your own material? Do you? Because that is so fresh. "Windows crashes all the time!". You know, I've, I've never heard anyone make that joke before. Hmm. You're the first. I've never heard anyone reference, reference that in geek circles before. Because that's what always used to happen? Isn't it? Windows crashing. And, and yet you've taken that and used it out of context to insult Microsoft in this everyday situation. God what a clever, smart person you must be, to come up with a joke like that all by yourself. That's so fresh too. Any, any Dr. DOS jokes you want to throw at me too as long as we're hitting these phenomena at the height of their popularity? God you're so funny!
(with thanks to Seth McFarlane)
Colour me confused. That article clearly states that he did have a right to record them, that this was upheld by the court, and that Boston settled out of court and paid him $170,000.
For anyone who doesn't want to read it, he filmed the police and, after asking if it included audio, they arrested him for breach of the peace, wiretapping and another charge they basically invented. After it inevitably didn't go anywhere and they refused to investigate internally, he sued the city for violation of his 1st and 4th amendment rights, and they appealed that they had a right to confiscate his equipment under wiretapping laws. However, the judge said he had his constitutional rights to record, and it couldn't have been wiretapping because the camera was in plain sight.
So, contrary to the GP's statement, they actually affirmed Glik's right to record the police as long as he does it openly and doesn't get in the way of an arrest, which is exactly what the DC police just did.
I don't know. I've had jobs I've hated so much that the exit interview provided some much needed catharsis to combat years of stress.
Isn't it just a logical progression from rendering parts of the desktop on 7 using DirectX, to doing the same for the layout on Word? I mean, any processing you can offload from the CPU is generally a good thing, especially when you're not using the GPU at all.
It also does point out hardware acceleration isn't actually required.
I'm not American, but I do agree - I thought the point was that the government already has the power to do exactly what SOPA is "for" - it just removed due process requirements to do it.
Yes. He's saying that providing an estimate of the license fee for one patent in and of itself does not prove the amount of damages Motorola requires, essentially because of the ambiguity between the price of a single patent and the price of the collective patents aren't exactly the same. FRAND makes no rule nor mention of how much individual patents should cost when licensed outside of the pool, which is essential as the other patents were dismissed from the case.
He made no value judgement as to whether he considered the higher price for a single patent was fair or not. He certainly didn't use the word excessive. To exceed something, and to be excessive, are two different things with different connotations.
Posner only said that they weren't being clear in what damages they were, not that they were excessive. In fact, he specifically points out that Apple are running the risk of being ordered to pay that amount or more by the court.
And, in fact, will most likely work on Windows 8 too.
The point is, surely, that spending disposable income on an iPhone or Mac is not a preferable option when others exist like, say, moving to Ekiga?
I think the idea that people will say "I don't like ads, but I don't mind spending $1000 on a Mac" is a bit... bonkers.
Most of the other mamillian life forms out there don't seem to have the same problems we do
I'm going to put that down to the lack of gibbon-centred cancer clinics.
You missed my point - I'm saying you have to trust every government of that country forever, which means you can't just keep it in one place. Furthermore, you give it to a private company (as it is now), that company is still beholden to the laws of the country it's created in, and you haven't solved a single thing.
I don't care to get into the argument about who created what. However, even if you did create it, it still doesn't mean you get to control it forever. Sometimes it's deemed of a higher benefit to the human race to have that control taken away from people who can't act responsibly, regardless of their role beforehand.
"But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months." ..."
"Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything."
"But the plans were on display
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a flashlight."
"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."