And before anyone says "what good are handguns and shotguns against reaper missiles, sniper rifles, tanks, and nuclear weapons?", the benefit small arms provide is a psychological willingness to fight. With martial law, you want the people to continue working for the benefit of the state (either taxing them or confiscating goods). Civil wars are very costly even if the internal enemy can be wiped out in a day or less. If a large portion of the population has even an incorrect belief that they can effectively stand up to tyranny, then outright tyranny becomes a losing course of action.
In most of your examples, the targeted populations were divested of their firearms prior to the atrocities. In the last one, people voluntarily complied.
in the modern age of global, open and instant communication over the internet such a gov. oppression is a political suicide.
"So you're telling me that now that the people are disarmed, cowed by martial law, they're unwilling to vote me in as president for life? Well, that sure was a miscalculation. If only there were a way to bypass democracy."
It's supposed to be under settings->general->accessibilty
Not there at all. You probably have a 4S. Considering how Apple eschews external model numbers, I could see how it's easy to forget which it is.
The zooming and sliding is dramatically different. The zooming used to be always centered, and the sliding used to always be faster. Now the zooming comes from different angles and seems designed to induce nausea. My phone (iOS 7.02) doesn't even have the reduced motion option (possibly because ios7 doesn't do parallax on iPhone 4). And I never feel motion sick in a car or other vehicle, but my phone made me feel weird before other people mentioned it made them sick. Not nausea for me, but something.. unusual.
I've noticed that setting "increased contrast" seem to help with the speed of the zooming and sliding.
I've got other beefs with ios7 though, like the too-thin font for the clock on the lock screen, the annoyingly slow fade in/out, and safari constantly hiding/showing controls when I scroll a webpage (down vs up). None of which seems configurable.
I know some people in the NSA, and knowing their characters (but not having talked to them lately), I'm pretty sure they don't want the domestic spying to continue either.
Even if you don't tell anyone that you've got herpes the NSA will know it. They will know when you are pregnant, when you miscarry, when you decide to have an abortion because your fetus tests positive for down syndrome. They will know the results of any DNA parentage tests even when you don't tell your own family.
SysReq would have been a better choice than alt-tab for switching programs
I don't want programs to switch focus from a casual mistype. That's also why I turn off mouse focus in *nix environments (a minor nudge of the mouse or the laptop "eraser" pointer, and you're suddenly typing in a different window).
after you boot it you have to hit Ctrl-Alt-Del to log on, and again if the screen saver comes on? It's a really stupid, unergonomic and user-hostile design
Security is often "user hostile". Windows kernel intercepts all ctrl-alt-del inputs and sends them to winlogon first, and other programs (supposedly) can't unilaterally react to the sequence. That means that when you hit ctrl-alt-del, you know that the logon screen you're interacting with is the one that the kernel says is the authoritative winlogon process, not nakidpix.exe's phishing window. Of course, UAC broke that model since you don't have to type ctrl-alt-del before it requests a password.
The Original Series had some glimpses of the slave classes that no one likes to talk about in polite company (and Deep Space 9 was the first to actually show the economics of its main cast).
They only showed that for Quark and a couple of non-main characters.
In DS9. In TOS, there were dilithium miners who obviously weren't keen on being dilithium miners. Only the people in starfleet seemed to be blissfully happy, and they were only that happy if they were on a starship (or retired). Kirk might believe in the UFP Utopia, but that's because he has a literal rainbow of groupies every episode to distract him (and he's on a five year mission away from the UFP).
How long before we see "Lunch! Sponsored by McDonald's", etc...
Back in 1992, I remember that Pizza Hut started selling personal pizzas in my school. They were terrible, but better than the school lunches, so there was always a huge line.
it is redundant to have more than one type of copy buffer
Redundant but useful. You have two eyes, but in concert they provide binocular vision. You have two ears, but together they allow you to locate sound sources. On macs back in 1995-1999, I used a program that would provide 10 copy buffers. Very handy utility, that. Today, I like knowing that I have at least two copy buffers without having to resort to opening a text editor as a poor-man's buffer.
Middle finger to Gnome. I'm an xfce user these days, but I still care about having a good Gnome in the mix because its presence would help every desktop. As things are now, Gnome sucks. Even classic mode sucks.
The FAA gives us some crumbs while the TSA takes the main course. I'd rather have my electronics have the batteries temporarily confiscated than have to endure radiation or gropings.
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the kid who refuse to grow up (Linus)
I believe the stories are about Linus Torvalds, not Linus Van Pelt.
I'll be over here on my bike, riding around eating twinkies
Plan on nuts and jerky. Twinkies actually have a very short shelf life compared to what people think.
And before anyone says "what good are handguns and shotguns against reaper missiles, sniper rifles, tanks, and nuclear weapons?", the benefit small arms provide is a psychological willingness to fight. With martial law, you want the people to continue working for the benefit of the state (either taxing them or confiscating goods). Civil wars are very costly even if the internal enemy can be wiped out in a day or less. If a large portion of the population has even an incorrect belief that they can effectively stand up to tyranny, then outright tyranny becomes a losing course of action.
So much for the "lots of guns" joke.
In most of your examples, the targeted populations were divested of their firearms prior to the atrocities. In the last one, people voluntarily complied.
in the modern age of global, open and instant communication over the internet such a gov. oppression is a political suicide.
"So you're telling me that now that the people are disarmed, cowed by martial law, they're unwilling to vote me in as president for life? Well, that sure was a miscalculation. If only there were a way to bypass democracy."
Home icons don't "fly in from all different angles", you zoom into and out of the icon you launched or backed out of.
And each icon is in a different location on the screen, so the zooming is "from all different angles".
It's supposed to be under settings->general->accessibilty
Not there at all. You probably have a 4S. Considering how Apple eschews external model numbers, I could see how it's easy to forget which it is.
The zooming and sliding is dramatically different. The zooming used to be always centered, and the sliding used to always be faster. Now the zooming comes from different angles and seems designed to induce nausea. My phone (iOS 7.02) doesn't even have the reduced motion option (possibly because ios7 doesn't do parallax on iPhone 4). And I never feel motion sick in a car or other vehicle, but my phone made me feel weird before other people mentioned it made them sick. Not nausea for me, but something.. unusual.
I've noticed that setting "increased contrast" seem to help with the speed of the zooming and sliding.
I've got other beefs with ios7 though, like the too-thin font for the clock on the lock screen, the annoyingly slow fade in/out, and safari constantly hiding/showing controls when I scroll a webpage (down vs up). None of which seems configurable.
Yup - the government now owns your activity
FTFY yes, they own your health in your example but that's less scary to most people than owning your activity (slavery)
They do after the first week of shifting the hours every week.
I know some people in the NSA, and knowing their characters (but not having talked to them lately), I'm pretty sure they don't want the domestic spying to continue either.
Even if you don't tell anyone that you've got herpes the NSA will know it. They will know when you are pregnant, when you miscarry, when you decide to have an abortion because your fetus tests positive for down syndrome. They will know the results of any DNA parentage tests even when you don't tell your own family.
... so be good for goodness' sake!
SysReq would have been a better choice than alt-tab for switching programs
I don't want programs to switch focus from a casual mistype. That's also why I turn off mouse focus in *nix environments (a minor nudge of the mouse or the laptop "eraser" pointer, and you're suddenly typing in a different window).
after you boot it you have to hit Ctrl-Alt-Del to log on, and again if the screen saver comes on? It's a really stupid, unergonomic and user-hostile design
Security is often "user hostile". Windows kernel intercepts all ctrl-alt-del inputs and sends them to winlogon first, and other programs (supposedly) can't unilaterally react to the sequence. That means that when you hit ctrl-alt-del, you know that the logon screen you're interacting with is the one that the kernel says is the authoritative winlogon process, not nakidpix.exe's phishing window. Of course, UAC broke that model since you don't have to type ctrl-alt-del before it requests a password.
Isn't every brain growing?
Unless you're filming yourself with that block of wood, it's all the cop's say-so as to whether you were texting.
And that was just a decade (fictional time) before TNG, so several decades after TOS' time period.
The Original Series had some glimpses of the slave classes that no one likes to talk about in polite company (and Deep Space 9 was the first to actually show the economics of its main cast).
They only showed that for Quark and a couple of non-main characters.
In DS9. In TOS, there were dilithium miners who obviously weren't keen on being dilithium miners. Only the people in starfleet seemed to be blissfully happy, and they were only that happy if they were on a starship (or retired). Kirk might believe in the UFP Utopia, but that's because he has a literal rainbow of groupies every episode to distract him (and he's on a five year mission away from the UFP).
How long before we see "Lunch! Sponsored by McDonald's", etc...
Back in 1992, I remember that Pizza Hut started selling personal pizzas in my school. They were terrible, but better than the school lunches, so there was always a huge line.
That's not quite as fast as ctrl-v or middle click though. If it were super-v followed by F1 through F12, then it might be kind of useful.
A mac doesn't even have a middle mouse button.
Yes it does. The mouse wheel ball is a button.
worse, select/middle click DOESN'T use the same clipboard as Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V
That's like saying Strawberry Newtons are worse than Fig Newtons because they don't taste as much like figs.
it is redundant to have more than one type of copy buffer
Redundant but useful. You have two eyes, but in concert they provide binocular vision. You have two ears, but together they allow you to locate sound sources. On macs back in 1995-1999, I used a program that would provide 10 copy buffers. Very handy utility, that. Today, I like knowing that I have at least two copy buffers without having to resort to opening a text editor as a poor-man's buffer.
Middle finger to Gnome. I'm an xfce user these days, but I still care about having a good Gnome in the mix because its presence would help every desktop. As things are now, Gnome sucks. Even classic mode sucks.
The FAA gives us some crumbs while the TSA takes the main course. I'd rather have my electronics have the batteries temporarily confiscated than have to endure radiation or gropings.
He's used a web hang-glider before (image above). He also had Captain Universe abilities for a while.