Google has been playing catch up for years, but now they're changing their UI in gratuitous and overly animated ways without giving the users notification or a "classic" path out of it. Wow, they finally caught up to Facebook!
I don't mind the idea of not supported. What I hate is the idea of whining loudly and interupting the workflow because the user isn't on the bleeding edge. If you can detect the browser version then just don't use the new features on the pages. Don't force me to click a popup or make a decision every time I bring up your page (Google Calendar). Noisily announcing that something doesn't work completely harkens back to the bad old days of user interface design. Very unHTML-like.
Insurance costs represent the true cost of a disaster, not just the physical pain. For example, what if the power plan is damaged and my web site is down for 12 hours. There was no physical damage to my servers but I lost the capacity to do business.
DST starts roughly 80 days after the solstice and ends roughly 50 before the soltice. Changing clocks based onthe season rather than the actual amount of daylight or the time of sunrise is wasteful.
I've experienced problems with my Toyota but it was because the cruise control sucks. When the car starts losing speed (caused by hill or headwind), the cruise control doesn't slowly apply gas until it gets back to the set point. Oh no. It downshifts and races the engine hard until the car is at least 5 MPH past the set point. So much for fuel economy. And I can see how this would cause an unprepared driver to freak out and make things worse.
I haven't seen signs of bad engineering, just sloppy engineering or cheaping out. I also have a problem with any car company who's saying, "We're perfect, it's our drivers who are stupider than average."
At least this means that teachers can't be threatened for completely slamming Intelligent Design.
Ozzie always confused me. The world has been moving closer and closer to integration and, as soon as he got to MS, they went in the other direction. MS restructured so that OS, Office, Gaming, and many others were their own profit centers. They were given bonuses or blasts depending on how they did individually. Now if that meant that OS did something that hurt Office, that was fine as look as OS got a win out of it.
And these "organizations who might be willing to buy the company's assets and keep the service going" would be planning to do what with the (hopefully) aggregated data?
September 13, 1999: The day the moon left Earth's orbit.
The problem with the way teachers are ranked is that it causes the unintended consequence of teaching to the test. Everything is a waste of time for them.
The solution to this is to rank teaches based on the how the students succeed when the teacher has no direct input. Rank teachers based on how students do in the following grade. A 1st grade teach gets ranks by the grades in 2nd grade and so on. 12th grade teachers get ranked based on if the person does well over the next four years in college, work, or the military. There's always the posibility of collusion but it becomes more difficult.
Why do I care about extending battery life. I only need to have the porn sites going to 2, 3 minutes tops.
Garanteed. Example: people currently use Flash to implement HTML links.
Unblockable ads plus geolocation? I predict pain.
One of the things that's always funny about speeding cameras is how legislators deal with them. Legislators:
At my company we've had a weekend fire drill thanks to Y2K. I'm not talking about 10 years ago. I'm talking about yesterday. Ten plus years ago some genius "fixed" the Y2K issue by checking to see if the first of the two digits in the year was a zero. If it was prepend "20", otherwise...
Flamebait me if you must, but I'm a NH resident and the Old Man has always confused the life out of me. It was a 30 foot tall item on a 1200 peak. Tiny. It was like holding a quarter at arm's length. But you go around this state and you'd think it was the fraggin' Grand Canyon or something. And now I get to see money and time wasted trying to resurrect this pathetic icon? Wonderful.
Kleeneness is next to Godelness.
