I always hate these self-serve product forums. The replies from enthusiasts can be very patronising. I understand it for something you're not paying for (i.e. Google Product Forums, ug) but for Office there should be some MS-paid person involved.
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Maybe album covers are better in general. It's just that on the OK Computer playlist most of the videos were imitations and it would have been easier to see if I could preview them (http://en-us.blynde.com/#!ok-computer)
Good luck with it!
Some thoughts: - A couple of times the audio dropped. Each time I noticed the mute button was engaged and even unmuting the audio did not come back. Not sure what happened. - The progress bar caused a usability issue for me. It's so instinctual to hover at the bottom of the video and I didn't realise why nothing was responding. - Is it possible to have thumbnails for the videos in the playlist? - How do I scroll in the playlist? I could not figure that out.
Robert Witwer, vice-president of advanced technology at Honey-well of Morristown, cited some other reasons [1]:
- Increased congestion: "Short hauls do a lot of taxiing time, especially in a place like Newark, where you can be 20th in line"
- Legislation: “And there are a number of airports in Europe that have tough emission standards that would make the Green Taxiing System appealing. I believe it’s a game-changing technology."
- Fuel costs: "The prospect of annual savings of $200,000 per jet from lower fuel use and less ground time has sparked interest from Airbus and airlines such as EasyJet and Alitalia. Airlines face the highest sustained prices ever for jet fuel. United Continental, the world’s biggest carrier, says it burns $25,000 of fuel per minute. Jet fuel delivery in New York averaged $3.12 per gallon in 2012, more than four times as much as a decade ago."
- Technological advances: "What’s new in today’s technology is the convergence of airlines’ search for more efficiency and recent advances in miniaturizing electric motors to propel a plane at the 32 kilometres per hour it may need for taxiing."
[1] http://www.wingsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&ta...
[1] http://support.cancerresearchuk.org/support-us/donate/donate...
Open government is great, but I hope open journalism is not too far away (e.g. http://wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meeting-Assange-Schmidt.html...). We either need existing newspapers to be more open or open journalists to become more mainstream.
- On slide 13 I got a bit lost as the green circle for US & Canada stands out a lot so I read it before the text. Maybe the green circle could include the text?
Great marking!
Another annoyance is that you cannot change the size of a drive after you create it [1] and it doesn't shrink to fit the data either.
[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/06/07/transcript-what-oba...
I have middle-class friends in Istanbul fighting a authoritarian government which is arresting people because of their statements on Twitter and Facebook - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/05/turkish-police-a.... So the data can easily be abused in a very negative way.
Good luck with it!
I think the author is playing with words there. Also trust is important for business relationships and psychologists have shown that if you give trust you get it back.
But in practice, can I just spin the phone around in the air whilst still lying in bed or is it detecting for a wider circumference of movement than that?
[1] http://gigaom.com/2013/03/13/chris-wetherll-google-reader/
Lots of people will complain about how the state is getting involved in peoples lives etc so it would have been funny if we could buy them online from overseas too, thus creating a profitable business
As an outsider, the US seems to have a lot of innovation in TV anyway. HBO creates the best drama series', seen all over the world, and Netflix sounds amazing. In the UK we have the BBC as a monopoly but it's sadly/oddly often more innovative than other networks.