Comment Re:And this is somehow supposed to be a surprise? (Score 1, Redundant) 1010
Exactly. "Belief" has nothing to do with it.
The brevity of tweets makes it deceptively easy to assume the worst intent on the part of the writer.
... and puts additional responsibility on the author to choose their words carefully.
Her apology pretty much says it right there: "a needless and careless tweet". If it was "darkly ironic" etc etc it wouldn't be "needless and careless".
She's (was) a PR exec - writing heartfelt apologies is part of her job description. Then again, so is not creating PR disasters for her employer (which this was, even if it was indeed meant as a deep commentary on the lot of poor South Africans), so YMMV I suppose. Anyway, I find it hard to believe this was anything deep and meaningful with a history like this:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jenvesp/16-tweets-justine-sacco-regrets-hxg7
This is silly. All this talk of work moving to tablets or smartphones, or laptops replacing desktops (a) misses the point of why we use desktops in the first place and (b) focuses on a relatively narrow selection of the workforce.
The advantages are not in processing power or framerates or whatever, that was largely solved years ago and portable devices get better every year. The advantages are in ergonomics, efficiency and maintenance:
Desktops have:
- an arbitrarily large screen (or mutliple screens)
- a screen which is adjustable in height above the desk as well as angle
- a screen which can be mounted on a wall or other convenient location away from the CPU and keyboard
- a separate keyboard and mouse which can (a) be placed arbitrarily on the desk relative to the screen and (b) can be cheaply and easily replaced when you spill coffee on it or when it gets dirty
- the box can be replaced independently of the monitor, which is good for maintenace if something breaks and good for costs in the upgrade cycle
Now some will argue that all the above can be solved by a docked laptop, and that is true (indeed I am typing this from a docked laptop). But for the vast majority of workers they neither need nor want to take their computer home with them (most office workers) nor should they (e.g. hospital workers). In that case it makes no sense at all for their employer to spend more money on a laptop and docking station when the laptop will never move anyway.
Mobile devices are good for managers, marketers, creative people who like to work in cafes etc, people who need to work in the field and people who take their work home.The vast majority of workers are not these people. They are secretaries, accountants, HR staff, middle management, shop workers, clerical staff, workers in healthcare, in retail, etc etc. People who use spreadsheets, full-screen forms, databases etc. These people have nothing at all to gain from mobility in the work place and everything to lose in terms of ergonomics, and their employers in terms of costs and maintenance.
Even for home use the ergonomics of a separet keyboard, mouse and monitor mean the desktop will often stay (kid spills juice on the keyboard? $10-$50. Spills juice on the laptop? $100-$500.)
That's why desktops are not going anywhere; developers, CAD users and the like are just the power user icing on the cake.
No one has RTFA it seems
The scientists are being asked to study the effects of climate change on Nebraska, not climate change itself.
in that context restricting them to studying the effects of cyclical changes only is stupid, and the reason for their protest.
See also the longer article here http://www.omaha.com/article/20131024/NEWS/131029338/1707#state-climate-change-study-may-go-begging-for-scientists
With a wide monitor (1920px) I like my browser snapped to half the screen width, so I can do something useful in the other half (also the format is a nice comfortable-to-read portrait). With Unity or another side panel, though, the 'half-screen-width' browser is no longer 1920/2 = 960 pixels wide, it's more like 920 (excluding scroll bar). Which breaks the layout - the right bar doesn't appear, the story boxes spread out wide
Also, waaaaay too much whitespace.
Why do we need Metro-look anyway?
Shesh folks.. There are a number of unfenced airports out there. They generally don't carry commercial traffic and it would be easy to get a car on the runway. In fact, there is one not a mile from where I type that I could easily get onto the runway and not ever leave pavement or have to open a gate. Only single engine aircraft usually operate there and there is NO FENCE
Fairbanks International. Regular, commercial 737 flights. 737-used runway. See the problem?
It's fairly boring. Here is the NOTAM:
FAI FAIRBANKS INTL
!FAI 09/092 FAI TWY FLOAT POND RD AT TWY B CLSD LGTD AND BARRICADED TIL 1309302355
You can find it at Pilotweb, unfortunately I can't immediately see how to post a direct URL. You can see it matches the details in this article.
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