I can't for the life of me understand why anything in the picture you've linked as "fscked up beyond hope" is difficult to navigate.
Sure, now that I know what to expect, it's not a problem. But those roundabouts are the exits from a major highway, traveled by visitors from out of town and out of state. So you can just imagine the confusion when these first timers encounter this when coming off the highway.
Here in Michigan, we're starting to replace stop sign/lights intersections with roundabouts, and on the whole, I really like them... when done right.
But as always, leave it to the US govt to take a good idea and f*** it up beyond hope.
I couldn't find a picture of the traffic sign approaching these roundabouts but it's even more confusing than the picture.
The first time I went through this roundabout, I couldn't read the sign fast enough to really tell where to go and basically dove into the first roundabout in almost blind panic. Luckily it was late at night and there were no other cars, but I can only imagine the mass confusion at high traffic.
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The biggest problem with Google is that they are not innovators... just copycats.
To that, I and millions of others say... who cares? Why is copying or buying a concept such a bad thing? As long as they offer a service that is superior, why does it matter who came up with the original concept? Where would the GUI desktop be now if Apple hadn't "innovated" it from Xerox?
That's just the nature of competition and the free market. If the original idea isn't sufficient, why should I have to suffer it if there's a better executed "copy" from somewhere else? And if the copy isn't good, wouldn't the market decide its fate?
In an interesting experiment, a couple of Artists hired a polling firm to ask people of various countries what they would like to see MOST and LEAST in a painting. Then they executed the paintings and the results are interesting. For the US, the most wanted painting was a landscape painting, with lakes and forests and deer. You can see the painting here: http://awp.diaart.org/km/usa/most.html. I think it's fair to say it's an entirely innocuous and forgettable painting. But it does illustrate (!) exactly what happens when you try to appeal to the widest audience - mediocrity.
You can see the rest of the paintings for other countries' responses. It's interesting to see that all the paintings are roughly the same, save for Holland. http://awp.diaart.org/km/painting.html
These artists also used the same methods to create a most-wanted song, and the result, again, is about what you'd find on your average pop radio station (at that time). The link to the song is also on their website
That's interesting because the New York City Triathlon's swim portion is right in the Hudson River. No one I've talked to has ever mentioned anything TOO bad about swimming in the Hudson. But as a lot, triathletes are generally too hard core to admit any suffering or unexplained skin growths.:)
I'll be the first to admit that I'm no Apple fan, but maybe... just maybe they're patenting this so that no one else can do it, thus effectively keeping this "innovation" from ever seeing the (infrared) light of day. Kind of like a defensive patent.
No rule says that they have to put this into any product. Or am I just too optimistic?
Google knows better than to waste resources trying to advertise to kids who, a) have no money, and b) won't be clicking on a bunch of Google ads that pop up on their favorite web pages.
According to the report, younger kids averaged a click rate of 0.87 per cent in June. That compared with an average click rate for the overall Internet audience of 0.45 per cent, based on Nielsen/Net Ratings data.
On the negative side, the chance of receiving a kidney is now firmly on the side of the patient with the money or highest bidder. But I guess that's more-or-less always been true.
Because your hand then doesn't have to leave the home row. Since you're focusing on the URL bar, you'll be typing anyway so ctrl-L is going to be (marginally) faster. I use ctrl-L all the time and the flow is much better than pressing F6.
Theoretically, you might be able to break out the water heater... if these events were isolated, with a clean start and finish. But in reality, it'll look something like this:
Those 2kw spikes could be anything number of things: electric kettle, AC/(electric)heat, electric stove, anything with a large current draw or sometimes even a combination of smaller devices turning on at once. It gets even worse when it's more than one person in a house.
I worked with a company trying to solve exactly this problem - breaking out device usage from the whole house power, and the results were not very encouraging. The only sure thing the software could identify was that... someone was home and maybe the AC/Heater cycling. The eventual solution basically was to place a CT around every branch in the circuit break box
leaving out the fact that most water heaters are gas-powered, how are you going to break out the water heater usage from the jumbled mess that is the household usage? even if you manage that, how do you know who's taking a shower if there's more than one person in a home?
I'm with you there. I was looking at a navigation unit but will cross TomTom off my list. Too many competitors out there to have to suffer something like this.
But what I can't fathom is - what's TomTom's angle on this? As a corporation, you would assume that their bottom line is what matters most to them. So the question is: how are they profiting from this? Because the consumer backlash will certainly be considerable, what does TT stand to gain from giving the (anonymized) info to the authorities? You would have to expect it would have to offset any losses from potential customers going somewhere else...
* I'm not sure if this is an existing bug but there's an inconsistency between the show/hide comment slider and the actual posts shown. I have the sliders set to -1 and it clearly says that ALL comments "FULL". However, I often find that I have to scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Get $X more comments" to actually show all the comments. Annoying.
* for some reason, I can't click the "Post Anonymously" button anymore. I just found this when I modded your comment up and wanted to add to the list.
* when I go to my account page, some of the menus are overlaying each other. It's just a mess.
I'm fine with the redesigned layout but for god's sake, I would expect this of amateurs. I wish the code could be edited wiki-style so that I could just go in and fix it instead of complaining.
This is a problem entirely of Apple's making. As the curator of their walled garden, they set themselves up in this situation. They made their beds and now they have to sleep in it.
What were they thinking was going to happen - they'd never have to actually use their god-like power over the apps store in an ethically nebulous way?
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I can't for the life of me understand why anything in the picture you've linked as "fscked up beyond hope" is difficult to navigate.
Sure, now that I know what to expect, it's not a problem. But those roundabouts are the exits from a major highway, traveled by visitors from out of town and out of state. So you can just imagine the confusion when these first timers encounter this when coming off the highway.
Here in Michigan, we're starting to replace stop sign/lights intersections with roundabouts, and on the whole, I really like them... when done right.
But as always, leave it to the US govt to take a good idea and f*** it up beyond hope. I couldn't find a picture of the traffic sign approaching these roundabouts but it's even more confusing than the picture.
The first time I went through this roundabout, I couldn't read the sign fast enough to really tell where to go and basically dove into the first roundabout in almost blind panic. Luckily it was late at night and there were no other cars, but I can only imagine the mass confusion at high traffic.
The biggest problem with Google is that they are not innovators ... just copycats.
To that, I and millions of others say... who cares? Why is copying or buying a concept such a bad thing? As long as they offer a service that is superior, why does it matter who came up with the original concept? Where would the GUI desktop be now if Apple hadn't "innovated" it from Xerox?
That's just the nature of competition and the free market. If the original idea isn't sufficient, why should I have to suffer it if there's a better executed "copy" from somewhere else? And if the copy isn't good, wouldn't the market decide its fate?
So by the judge's reasoning, ISPs can be sued if they use packet sniffing to detect usage for throttling or shaping?
And to the GGP, it's a civil suit, there is no pleading of innocence.
In an interesting experiment, a couple of Artists hired a polling firm to ask people of various countries what they would like to see MOST and LEAST in a painting. Then they executed the paintings and the results are interesting. For the US, the most wanted painting was a landscape painting, with lakes and forests and deer. You can see the painting here: http://awp.diaart.org/km/usa/most.html. I think it's fair to say it's an entirely innocuous and forgettable painting. But it does illustrate (!) exactly what happens when you try to appeal to the widest audience - mediocrity.
You can see the rest of the paintings for other countries' responses. It's interesting to see that all the paintings are roughly the same, save for Holland. http://awp.diaart.org/km/painting.html
These artists also used the same methods to create a most-wanted song, and the result, again, is about what you'd find on your average pop radio station (at that time). The link to the song is also on their website
That's interesting because the New York City Triathlon's swim portion is right in the Hudson River. No one I've talked to has ever mentioned anything TOO bad about swimming in the Hudson. But as a lot, triathletes are generally too hard core to admit any suffering or unexplained skin growths. :)
...armed with tweezers and a butter knife
I doubt that there's much money in that.
I'll be the first to admit that I'm no Apple fan, but maybe... just maybe they're patenting this so that no one else can do it, thus effectively keeping this "innovation" from ever seeing the (infrared) light of day. Kind of like a defensive patent.
No rule says that they have to put this into any product. Or am I just too optimistic?
Google knows better than to waste resources trying to advertise to kids who, a) have no money, and b) won't be clicking on a bunch of Google ads that pop up on their favorite web pages.
Really?
Right, that's why there's never toy or cereal commercials during Saturday morning cartoons.
On the negative side, the chance of receiving a kidney is now firmly on the side of the patient with the money or highest bidder. But I guess that's more-or-less always been true.
All bow to The Weakerthans... who only bow to Triumph.
Right now, on newegg, im only seeing USB3.0 on highend multi-hundred-dollar motherboards
Newegg says you're wrong.
I don't get it. Ctrl-L in IE (as of IE8, at least) opens up an "open" dialog box, which is essentially the URL bar. What happens for you?
Because your hand then doesn't have to leave the home row. Since you're focusing on the URL bar, you'll be typing anyway so ctrl-L is going to be (marginally) faster. I use ctrl-L all the time and the flow is much better than pressing F6.
Theoretically, you might be able to break out the water heater... if these events were isolated, with a clean start and finish. But in reality, it'll look something like this:
http://benjaminellis.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/power-day.png
Those 2kw spikes could be anything number of things: electric kettle, AC/(electric)heat, electric stove, anything with a large current draw or sometimes even a combination of smaller devices turning on at once. It gets even worse when it's more than one person in a house.
I worked with a company trying to solve exactly this problem - breaking out device usage from the whole house power, and the results were not very encouraging. The only sure thing the software could identify was that... someone was home and maybe the AC/Heater cycling. The eventual solution basically was to place a CT around every branch in the circuit break box
leaving out the fact that most water heaters are gas-powered, how are you going to break out the water heater usage from the jumbled mess that is the household usage? even if you manage that, how do you know who's taking a shower if there's more than one person in a home?
He actually didn't change the text. His quote was spot-on. It's just that he's quoting the quick snippet underneath the headline.
This method is bound to fail. They'll need to become cunning linguists before they can even begin to detect innuendo.
As someone who doesn't mind using a toolbar for bookmarks, I can't say that I really identify with your reasoning for not using chrome. But to each his own. But maybe this can get you over the hate: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nnancliccjabjjmipbpjkfbijifaainp#
I'm with you there. I was looking at a navigation unit but will cross TomTom off my list. Too many competitors out there to have to suffer something like this.
But what I can't fathom is - what's TomTom's angle on this? As a corporation, you would assume that their bottom line is what matters most to them. So the question is: how are they profiting from this? Because the consumer backlash will certainly be considerable, what does TT stand to gain from giving the (anonymized) info to the authorities? You would have to expect it would have to offset any losses from potential customers going somewhere else...
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There's still OpenStreetMaps for to try that on...
To add to this, list:
* I'm not sure if this is an existing bug but there's an inconsistency between the show/hide comment slider and the actual posts shown. I have the sliders set to -1 and it clearly says that ALL comments "FULL". However, I often find that I have to scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Get $X more comments" to actually show all the comments. Annoying.
* for some reason, I can't click the "Post Anonymously" button anymore. I just found this when I modded your comment up and wanted to add to the list.
* when I go to my account page, some of the menus are overlaying each other. It's just a mess.
I'm fine with the redesigned layout but for god's sake, I would expect this of amateurs. I wish the code could be edited wiki-style so that I could just go in and fix it instead of complaining.
hey guyz, i can't see the blinky lights ur talkin about. i'm usin ie8 - wutz the problem? halp!
Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
This is a problem entirely of Apple's making. As the curator of their walled garden, they set themselves up in this situation. They made their beds and now they have to sleep in it.
What were they thinking was going to happen - they'd never have to actually use their god-like power over the apps store in an ethically nebulous way?
I have no sympathy for Apple here.