Completely disagree, at least for Outlook. Outlook 2010 is WAY better than 2007, especially because it has conversation grouping. That alone makes it significantly easier to browse my inbox and keep track of email chains...
Kind of troll-like, but it's breakfast time. This is the way clinical research works; it's all normal procedure. First, you test the new drug on mice. After that doesn't yield disastrous results, you go on to test it on a *handful* of people who express the condition pretty severely. After *that* works, then you test on a much larger sample size, and after that works, the drug is practically ready for mass manufacturing and production.
Software like JAWS makes computing for blind people very, very easy. It's just sad that operating systems do not provide the level of accessibility that this program has, especially considering that JAWS itself is quite expensive (unless one gets it from an organization or group at a discounted price).
There are also braille readers that have internet access and can "display" web pages. I've never played with one of those, but I did play with a braille reader and thought it was pretty neat stuff.
I'm not a medical student, but from the first sentence:
Early-onset, severe retinal dystrophy caused by mutations in the gene encoding retinal pigment epithelium–specific 65-kDa protein (RPE65) is associated with poor vision at birth and complete loss of vision in early adulthood.
Along with their solution:
We administered to three young adult patients subretinal injections of recombinant adeno-associated virus vector 2/2 expressing RPE65 complementary DNA (cDNA) under the control of a human RPE65 promoter.
Makes me think that this seems like a highly specific approach and will only work on people who've had damage done on that protein, not general blindness altogether. There are MANY people who are or become blind for genetic or developmental reasons, and it doesn't seem that this work will help them much, if at all. For instance, the only woman who I had a "serious" multi-year relationship with (so far) has aniridia , which is a condition which is a genetic condition that causes defects in the PAX6 gene on one of the copies of chromosome 11, causing the person to be born without an iris (more information here). (The funny thing about that disorder is that it's genetically one more gene mutation away from practically killing the person.) Besides nsytgmus, cataracts and tons of other optical nasties, it eventually leads to blindness most of the time that doesn't seem to be correctable by this approach.
But it's a great start and I hope that more breakthroughs like this begin to surface.
It's nowhere near the same level of fragmentation as trying to buy an Android phone and worrying about whether the next point release will even be supported for it.
Kind of reminds me of the days of owning Windows Mobile devices (or Palm devices, for that matter), when Microsoft (or Palm) would announce a new version with a jackload of new, awesome features...that won't be coming to your device because it's either (a) not fast enough for older phones (sort of fine) or (b) not approved by the carrier (wtf?)
The problem with this is that those other appstores are much more lax. Should someone write an application that harvests a user's data or does anything operationally malignant, Apple would have to service that. That would increase support calls and service labor. That costs more money. That means more expensive iPhones.
I also wouldn't doubt that the owners of such stores would have to follow all sorts of new rules that makes owning alternative app stores unattractive. That could probably be resolved by a consortium of sorts...
Well, for one it's unique in that it operates completely differently from other mobile OSes available. Taking that a step further, it's operating system uses a completely different paradigm than its competitors...
Lol I was thinking this exact subject line when I read this.
Nobody sued Palm, Microsoft or RIM for making mobile synchronization and, wait for it, mobile development way better on Windows than on *nix or OS X/MacOS. Hell, developing Windows Mobile apps practically requires Windows, since I believe most of the APIs for using its mobile platform are only available for Windows and work best with Visual Studio (just like Xcode with the iPhone).
Look, iPhoneOS runs a subset of OS X. That means that for the engineers and developers who put the OS together, it was probably way easier (and quicker) to use a platform that has most of the necessities already there than to shoehorn it so that it works with Windows and/or Linux. For reference, install iTunes or, better, Safari, on Windows and enjoy the fail that ensues.
I'm not an advanced math researcher or scientist, so my experience with MATLAB and Octave has been somewhat limited. However, when I did my multivariable calculus and linear algebra homework, I found Octave to be just as easy to use as MATLAB and it did not plot graphs any slower than MATLAB did, even in 3D.
Well, having owned their top-of-the-line "mobile workstation" (HP nw8240, administered by our school for Class of 2009) and some of their inkjet printers, I can sort of second these claims, at least for their consumer hardware.
When I owned it, I was pretty frustrated with the fact that their internals would give up so quickly (I think I had to exchange my motherboard after a year of use, and my screen soon afterward because a few yellow areas popped up on it). However, I suppose that this is standard operating procedure for most consumer laptops, as the hinge on my new Dell Latitude E6500 snapped off after three months and is now having intermittent trouble starting and have heard of weird problems plaguing MacBook/Pro owners.
I also remember owning a HP LaserJet 5, and that thing was dead solid. Worked forever...or at least until I tried experimenting with the toner and failed spectacularly.:-) I've also used old HP oscilloscopes for circuits lab experiments at school, and those things are tanks (and have been there for God knows how long, so they must have worked well since then). Their calculators were also great, though learning RPN to use them was not.:-)
I think the general problem is the demand for ever-decreasing prices on consumer hardware, which cheapens things all over the assembly process.
Should also note that most professional shops will only accept RAW images, as they allow for much more flexibility for manual fine-tuning and processing with Adobe Camera Raw or programs like Bibble. For most standard workflows that don't require insane precision or tweaking, JPEG is fine. When I shot exclusively RAW, it took hours longer to process and finish a shoot than doing the processing with JPEG with no discernible loss in quality.
Here's the thing I don't get about the people that hate Facebook because of the News Feed. If reading other people's status updates is so annoying, then why can't one just ignore them?
Facebook is pseudo social contact and I think it's actually making us more isolated as a people. We evolved to communicate one on one - not via a computer terminal.
See, here's the problem. Facebook isn't meant to replace social contact; it's meant to enhance it. When Zuckerberg and company began developing facebook (before the 'f' was capitalized, of course), their main impetus for doing so was to develop an easy way for people in Harvard to know and keep in contact with each other. Since college students would prefer anything online over in print, it made it a much better alternative than using the actual face-book that Harvard publishes every year (which I think they still do). On top of that, it provided a medium to allow people to contact each other easily. It was way better than digging through and through to find someone's email address, let alone their phone number. This obviously proved to be way more advantageous than finding people, as attested by the outrageous growth it's experienced since it went live in 2004.
Unfortunately, making communication easier naturally implies some form of increased isolation. However, would you really consider that mitigation a disadvantage if that simplification makes your life easier? Calling people makes it easier for me to not talk to the person face-to-face, but would you doubt that the phone is a terrible way to communicate with people because of that?
I own a Facebook profile, and have accumulated a ton of friends over the years on it. Now, in reality, I only know a handful of those folks...but having tons of Facebook friends sure makes it easy to find something to do on a quiet Friday/Saturday night if I'm up for it. Which, of course, makes it easy to make real acquaintances (or friends that stick around, if I get lucky).
It's fun enough, but I never really think of it as a service. To me, Facebook is a place.
In fact, I beg to differ. The whole entire purpose of Facebook (and its ilk) is to connect people with other people easily. While it might indeed be a place to see what's going on with one's friends or friends of friends, but that is a direct consequence of their mission. If that isn't a service, I don't know what is.
My reasons for confusion are the following:
Facebook Credit. What the hell? I understand that Facebook games are really taking off and all that, but this has been tried time and again with terrible results. Additionally, what would anyone possible want to "buy" on Facebook? Marketplace items (whose transactions are NOT managed by Facebook, but by the sellers using the platform)? More game stuff? I suppose that it would make it easy to give points that can be used in other games and stuff like that.
docs.com. Wasn't Microsoft releasing their online Office with Office 2010? If so, how is this any different? Is it the same?
The whole Pandora-Facebook tie-in is pretty natural; I really like the idea. All in all, though, I think they're trying to get a leg-up on Google, which would be nothing new.
Too bad it isn't C or C++, where this would be okay:
void __(int _, int ___) {(_ < ___) ? {printf("%d\n",i); _ = _ + (___ - 1); __(_,___);}
int main() {__(1,10);}
A huge mitigating factor for this flaw is that most huge free-email services (Google Mail, Hotmail, Yahoo, et al) prevent the registration of typical admin-like names (root, admin, ssladmin, postmaster, webmaster, etc). Additionally, some SSL CAs (StartCom, GoDaddy) do attempt to look up the real admin of the site and send confirmation emails there, which makes this useless.
While it's a serious flaw that needs to be attended to, it's not as impacting as it seems. (In fact, Seifried used portugalmail.pt as one of his test domains, which is small relative to the heavyweights in the free e-mail space.)
Well, doing the former is rather simple; there are tons of tutorials for that on the Internet. Technically, when one takes advantage of this flaw, they do become a SSL admin in the eyes of the CA, which is the point.
I'm sure the complaints would've been loud and clear if the articles were on the former.
Taking a cash advance on credit cards can be quite costly, though. And the ATM can come in handy very often (like for restaurants that don't accept cards)
Slashdot Mirror
Completely disagree, at least for Outlook. Outlook 2010 is WAY better than 2007, especially because it has conversation grouping. That alone makes it significantly easier to browse my inbox and keep track of email chains...
So it'll be slow as hell? Perfect! *ducks*
Kind of troll-like, but it's breakfast time. This is the way clinical research works; it's all normal procedure. First, you test the new drug on mice. After that doesn't yield disastrous results, you go on to test it on a *handful* of people who express the condition pretty severely. After *that* works, then you test on a much larger sample size, and after that works, the drug is practically ready for mass manufacturing and production.
Software like JAWS makes computing for blind people very, very easy. It's just sad that operating systems do not provide the level of accessibility that this program has, especially considering that JAWS itself is quite expensive (unless one gets it from an organization or group at a discounted price).
There are also braille readers that have internet access and can "display" web pages. I've never played with one of those, but I did play with a braille reader and thought it was pretty neat stuff.
Early-onset, severe retinal dystrophy caused by mutations in the gene encoding retinal pigment epithelium–specific 65-kDa protein (RPE65) is associated with poor vision at birth and complete loss of vision in early adulthood.
Along with their solution:
We administered to three young adult patients subretinal injections of recombinant adeno-associated virus vector 2/2 expressing RPE65 complementary DNA (cDNA) under the control of a human RPE65 promoter.
Makes me think that this seems like a highly specific approach and will only work on people who've had damage done on that protein, not general blindness altogether. There are MANY people who are or become blind for genetic or developmental reasons, and it doesn't seem that this work will help them much, if at all. For instance, the only woman who I had a "serious" multi-year relationship with (so far) has aniridia , which is a condition which is a genetic condition that causes defects in the PAX6 gene on one of the copies of chromosome 11, causing the person to be born without an iris (more information here). (The funny thing about that disorder is that it's genetically one more gene mutation away from practically killing the person.) Besides nsytgmus, cataracts and tons of other optical nasties, it eventually leads to blindness most of the time that doesn't seem to be correctable by this approach.
But it's a great start and I hope that more breakthroughs like this begin to surface.
i.e. it's not easy and it's not supported.
It's nowhere near the same level of fragmentation as trying to buy an Android phone and worrying about whether the next point release will even be supported for it.
Kind of reminds me of the days of owning Windows Mobile devices (or Palm devices, for that matter), when Microsoft (or Palm) would announce a new version with a jackload of new, awesome features...that won't be coming to your device because it's either (a) not fast enough for older phones (sort of fine) or (b) not approved by the carrier (wtf?)
The problem with this is that those other appstores are much more lax. Should someone write an application that harvests a user's data or does anything operationally malignant, Apple would have to service that. That would increase support calls and service labor. That costs more money. That means more expensive iPhones.
I also wouldn't doubt that the owners of such stores would have to follow all sorts of new rules that makes owning alternative app stores unattractive. That could probably be resolved by a consortium of sorts...
Well, for one it's unique in that it operates completely differently from other mobile OSes available. Taking that a step further, it's operating system uses a completely different paradigm than its competitors...
Lol I was thinking this exact subject line when I read this.
Nobody sued Palm, Microsoft or RIM for making mobile synchronization and, wait for it, mobile development way better on Windows than on *nix or OS X/MacOS. Hell, developing Windows Mobile apps practically requires Windows, since I believe most of the APIs for using its mobile platform are only available for Windows and work best with Visual Studio (just like Xcode with the iPhone).
Look, iPhoneOS runs a subset of OS X. That means that for the engineers and developers who put the OS together, it was probably way easier (and quicker) to use a platform that has most of the necessities already there than to shoehorn it so that it works with Windows and/or Linux. For reference, install iTunes or, better, Safari, on Windows and enjoy the fail that ensues.
I'm not an advanced math researcher or scientist, so my experience with MATLAB and Octave has been somewhat limited. However, when I did my multivariable calculus and linear algebra homework, I found Octave to be just as easy to use as MATLAB and it did not plot graphs any slower than MATLAB did, even in 3D.
Well, having owned their top-of-the-line "mobile workstation" (HP nw8240, administered by our school for Class of 2009) and some of their inkjet printers, I can sort of second these claims, at least for their consumer hardware.
:-) I've also used old HP oscilloscopes for circuits lab experiments at school, and those things are tanks (and have been there for God knows how long, so they must have worked well since then). Their calculators were also great, though learning RPN to use them was not. :-)
When I owned it, I was pretty frustrated with the fact that their internals would give up so quickly (I think I had to exchange my motherboard after a year of use, and my screen soon afterward because a few yellow areas popped up on it). However, I suppose that this is standard operating procedure for most consumer laptops, as the hinge on my new Dell Latitude E6500 snapped off after three months and is now having intermittent trouble starting and have heard of weird problems plaguing MacBook/Pro owners.
I also remember owning a HP LaserJet 5, and that thing was dead solid. Worked forever...or at least until I tried experimenting with the toner and failed spectacularly.
I think the general problem is the demand for ever-decreasing prices on consumer hardware, which cheapens things all over the assembly process.
That's what internships and co-ops are for: to go through the crap to minimize the chance of doing crap when you graduate.
Should also note that most professional shops will only accept RAW images, as they allow for much more flexibility for manual fine-tuning and processing with Adobe Camera Raw or programs like Bibble. For most standard workflows that don't require insane precision or tweaking, JPEG is fine. When I shot exclusively RAW, it took hours longer to process and finish a shoot than doing the processing with JPEG with no discernible loss in quality.
it'll be a sad, sad day for lots of startups, that's for sure...
Here's the thing I don't get about the people that hate Facebook because of the News Feed. If reading other people's status updates is so annoying, then why can't one just ignore them?
Facebook is pseudo social contact and I think it's actually making us more isolated as a people. We evolved to communicate one on one - not via a computer terminal.
See, here's the problem. Facebook isn't meant to replace social contact; it's meant to enhance it. When Zuckerberg and company began developing facebook (before the 'f' was capitalized, of course), their main impetus for doing so was to develop an easy way for people in Harvard to know and keep in contact with each other. Since college students would prefer anything online over in print, it made it a much better alternative than using the actual face-book that Harvard publishes every year (which I think they still do). On top of that, it provided a medium to allow people to contact each other easily. It was way better than digging through and through to find someone's email address, let alone their phone number. This obviously proved to be way more advantageous than finding people, as attested by the outrageous growth it's experienced since it went live in 2004.
Unfortunately, making communication easier naturally implies some form of increased isolation. However, would you really consider that mitigation a disadvantage if that simplification makes your life easier? Calling people makes it easier for me to not talk to the person face-to-face, but would you doubt that the phone is a terrible way to communicate with people because of that?
I own a Facebook profile, and have accumulated a ton of friends over the years on it. Now, in reality, I only know a handful of those folks...but having tons of Facebook friends sure makes it easy to find something to do on a quiet Friday/Saturday night if I'm up for it. Which, of course, makes it easy to make real acquaintances (or friends that stick around, if I get lucky).
It's fun enough, but I never really think of it as a service. To me, Facebook is a place.
In fact, I beg to differ. The whole entire purpose of Facebook (and its ilk) is to connect people with other people easily. While it might indeed be a place to see what's going on with one's friends or friends of friends, but that is a direct consequence of their mission. If that isn't a service, I don't know what is.
My reasons for confusion are the following:
The whole Pandora-Facebook tie-in is pretty natural; I really like the idea. All in all, though, I think they're trying to get a leg-up on Google, which would be nothing new.
Too bad it isn't C or C++, where this would be okay:
void __(int _, int ___) {(_ < ___) ? {printf("%d\n",i); _ = _ + (___ - 1); __(_,___);}
int main() {__(1,10);}
And in addition, here in NYC, our landline options are limited to the following:
At least the prices are pretty decent and Comcast isn't the only answer...
A huge mitigating factor for this flaw is that most huge free-email services (Google Mail, Hotmail, Yahoo, et al) prevent the registration of typical admin-like names (root, admin, ssladmin, postmaster, webmaster, etc). Additionally, some SSL CAs (StartCom, GoDaddy) do attempt to look up the real admin of the site and send confirmation emails there, which makes this useless.
While it's a serious flaw that needs to be attended to, it's not as impacting as it seems. (In fact, Seifried used portugalmail.pt as one of his test domains, which is small relative to the heavyweights in the free e-mail space.)
Well, doing the former is rather simple; there are tons of tutorials for that on the Internet. Technically, when one takes advantage of this flaw, they do become a SSL admin in the eyes of the CA, which is the point.
I'm sure the complaints would've been loud and clear if the articles were on the former.
But she supplied eggs which would allow the genetic parents to develop a healthy child, which indeed makes her a co-parent.
This won't be an issue, however, because there are plenty of women who donate their eggs specifically for this reason.
My question is this: wouldn't this have to happen before meoisis I occurs? If so, how long do the parents have to perform this procedure?
Yeah...file in February when W-2s roll out and get your return fresh in the new year.
Taking a cash advance on credit cards can be quite costly, though. And the ATM can come in handy very often (like for restaurants that don't accept cards)