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Here are the specs when compared to the Nook Color, Nook Tablet, and Kindle Fire. https://img.skitch.com/20120622-umkafxaic4gwhdr26samdnd1h.jpg

Here are the alternatives:

Mozilla's (these I wanted to improve. Note that they have explanations underneath):
https://img.skitch.com/20101222-nt2a3s3bkft4n8si81trwq6ww.png
https://img.skitch.com/20101222-8my23a7krc7xjppphnn6xtdyqy.png

And, Yale's from the above link (in my opinion, worse):
http://yale.edu/self/privacy64/2control1.jpg
http://yale.edu/self/privacy64/2control0.jpg

I hope mine are at least more clear than those. That's not to say they're ultimate clarity in pictography. Improvements are always welcome.

Here are the alternatives:

Mozilla's (these I wanted to improve. Note that they have explanations underneath):
https://img.skitch.com/20101222-nt2a3s3bkft4n8si81trwq6ww.png
https://img.skitch.com/20101222-8my23a7krc7xjppphnn6xtdyqy.png

And, Yale's from the above link (in my opinion, worse):
http://yale.edu/self/privacy64/2control1.jpg
http://yale.edu/self/privacy64/2control0.jpg

I hope mine are at least more clear than those. That's not to say they're ultimate clarity in pictography. Improvements are always welcome.

But what about Skitch (now owned by Evernote)? It's a screenshot utility. They are now available in the app store, I believe. The program is free, and allows easy screenshots with annotation and scribbling - and a great drag-and-drop to other programs feature.

SoundJam MP.

SoundJam MP was, perhaps, the first genuinely useful MP3 application for the Macintosh. One could easily rip CDs to MP3, mix songs as one wished in playlists, and then burn them to CD.

Rip. Mix. Burn. Where have we heard that before?

It even had support built in for the few MP3 players of the time.

Review of an early incarnation of SoundJam.

Review of the final revision.

And, the ObWiki entry .

MacLife history of iTunes .

Without SoundJam MP. there would likely have been no iTunes, as Apple bought SoundJam MP, filed off the serial numbers, slapped a coat of paint on it and called it iTunes V1.0.

Well, yeah, there still would have been AN iTunes. Apple would have just bought Audion .

So, while the iPod was indeed a seachange for the portable music player (cassette/CD/digital) of the era, without the software to support it as easily and as elegantly as SoundJam, er, "iTunes", it was the software that made the iPod the success it was and remains to this day.

https://img.skitch.com/20110905-qspd8edkn54u1cxriem5y5bdkd.jpg

Randroids with mod points. As inevitable as death and taxes.

To answer the objection to that sig about taxes... taxation is done by force or threat of force. If you don't pay your taxes, armed men will come to take your assets eventually. If you resist these armed men, they will use force up to and including lethal force. We call them IRS agents or we call them police. In any other context this is known as robbery. The fact that the theft is legal and the proceeds taken by theft are often put to beneficial uses that serve a commn good does not change the fact that it is theft. You might steal your neighbor's TV, sell it, and donate 100% of the money to charity; you'd still be a thief. It's really that simple. We continue to use this model mostly because we have not yet implemented one that is more viable, not because it is inherently virtuous.

Ayn Rand's writings were the greatest gift ever ... not to those whose political views tend towards the maximization of liberty and the minimization of coercion and hierarchy ... but paradoxically she is most useful to those who want to dismiss such views. Think the burden of proof is on the person who recommends coercion by force or threat of force (otherwise known as police power)? Well you're just another Randbot, and we'll call you names like that to avoid explaining why we think our position is superior.

I hate to break it to you but what is now called (small-l) libertarian thought has been around for a long time. The Founding Fathers with their distrust of government, love of liberty, and general view of government as a necessary evil have this kind of philosophy. Also, Rand was a staunch materialist; there are lovers of freedom such as myself who reject a materialist view. I also have the non-Randian belief that logic is a tool, it's a stunningly versatile tool, yet like all tools there are situations where it does not apply. But no, we're all just mindless droids and labeling us as such lets you remain safely within the boundaries of your comfort zone where your own view never needs to be tested against other incompatible ideas.

After all, anyone who feels a need to name-call, pigeonhole, label, marginalize, and smugly dismiss other views is only demonstrating their personal security and the correctness of their own position. Right? People like me who cultivate an openness to new ideas and a willingness to entertain notions with which we disagree prior to dismissing them, well obviously we have no idea what we're doing. One day we'll learn. One day.

Randroids with mod points. As inevitable as death and taxes.

You really are the poster boy for Asperger's, aren't you.

You are bitching about not being able to do something on devices you have admitted you don't own and have no intention of owning.

You gripe that you have no freedom when it comes to not being able to do something on devices you have admitted you don't own and have no intention of owning.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

What next? Lamenting of the terrible loss of freedom you are suffering because you can't play a cassette tape on a portable CD player you have no intention of ever buying?

Untwist your panties , and stop using the Internet. You're getting your stupid all over everything.

You really are the poster boy for Asperger's, aren't you.

You are bitching about not being able to do something on devices you have admitted you don't own and have no intention of owning.

You gripe that you have no freedom when it comes to not being able to do something on devices you have admitted you don't own and have no intention of owning.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

What next? Lamenting of the terrible loss of freedom you are suffering because you can't play a cassette tape on a portable CD player you have no intention of ever buying?

Untwist your panties , and stop using the Internet. You're getting your stupid all over everything.

I guess so, I know that I can sync while using the web and talking on the phone and downloading Torrents/USENET.

Of course, the phone I'm using is this one on my desk.

Oh, Snap!

https://img.skitch.com/20110613-mji63dpwtwbxr144b4fpspnapk.jpg

Sorry, as far as I'm concerned, abortion is more parasite control than anything else.

And your comment would have more relevance if the State was actively involved in providing abortion services, as in govt run family planning clinics with federal employees performing the procedures.

That's not a bad idea, actually. That would make any attempts on the life of an abortion provider a major federal offense, rather than a local state offense.

"I came out of the closet: I'm a Dittohead!!!"

https://img.skitch.com/20110613-mji63dpwtwbxr144b4fpspnapk.jpg

Apple as a religion! Please!

https://img.skitch.com/20091224-fsari6fkwrururpcsinf6r6mnd.jpg

St. Jobs, pray for me! Now and at the time of the Slashdotting!

Shall we compare her to a Summer's Eve ?

Fixed that for you.

"rapidshare to find your shit is exactly the same as hopping warez bbses. ... when some idiot courier forgot .c37 and spread a crc or two as well ('cuz, why not?).."

-(-1 offtopic)

More as deep:

Technology does _not_ make life harder.
Bastards do.
http://img.skitch.com/20090802-bjekq45iha8kstyjickwcnsi7i.jpg

(ellipses)(comma)

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/12/26/006254/Apple-Forces-Steve-Jobs-Action-Figure-Off-eBay
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/26/1552225/EFF-Offers-an-Introduction-To-Traitorware
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/what-traitorware ... today, alone. Ipso facto (or similar) (full stop).

Qed (or similar), ipso facto it's not -1 offtopic.

qed.

Defense rests.

Suck my thermos.

As seen at MIT:

A Shopping Cart Full Of Roombas.

"What business of the federal government is it how many toilets are in my home? And if it wants to know, if it asks nicely I might tell it; if it threatens me with legal sanction for failing to reply, my response is "fuck you, you have neither moral nor Constitutional authority to do so."
--"

You read a LOT of Ayn Rand as a lonely, insecure teenager, didn't you?

As for the Constitutionality of the Census, Article 1, Section 2. I'll wait while you look it up in your copy of the Constitution.

What? You don't have a copy. I do. It's about US$3.00 from the Govt. Printing Office. Ask nicely and your Representative will likely send you one for free.

Thomas Jefferson and a few others who had a hand in creating the US, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution considered a census vital to the public interest. That'll be Article 1, Section 2, again. That's the first part after the Preamble .

Diverse courts, up to SCOTUS, have affirmed that the Census can ask whatever questions it feels germane to its mission.

There's a pretty good precis at the 2010 Census site.

As for the 'toilet' question. Statistics. Watching trends over the decades are very useful.

If you know how many toilets there are per person in Anytown, USA, you can statistically determine how many toilets there may be in ten, twenty, thirty years, which means that there will be a need for more water, because there will be more people, more houses (Fire Departments LIKE having lots of hydrants about the place. Makes it easier for them to fight fires.) and, potentially, more water treatment plants and sewage treatment plants.

OMG! SOCIALIZED FIRE DEPARTMENTS! SOCIALIZED CLEAN WATER! SOCIALIZED SEWAGE TREATMENT!

TEH HORRORZ!

So, the bottom line is, you just proved yourself to be one of those morons who got their Official Libertarian Panties in a wad over a legitimate question in the Census.

Please! Stop using the Internet, You're getting your stupid ALL OVER everything.

kthnxbai!

HP Forever! Not just a slogan, a reality.

My HP-45 calculator is still going strong!

http://img.skitch.com/20100830-3s3d9tu936f4wim7neihyej3f.jpg

It's faster to use the real calculator that it is to call up a calculator app on the Mac.

The "N" position is also used to shift up a gear.

Not quite. "N" has its own position.

Although I admit I too was confused at first by the picture. It seems "N" and Tiptronic "+" should be on different planes.

http://img.skitch.com/20091006-nb6ashr9ge691gwqatrr9rgtg5.jpg

"WHOOOOSH!" Indeed, oh, perceptive AC.

I wonder if he/she/it is related to this person :

(From "If At All Possible, Involve A Cow", page 225)

Environmentalists may have more protein, but kittens are already productized. Wellness (a gourmet pet food brand) sells the usual chicken formula, beef formula, etc. But, although it's not well-publicized, they also sell kitten formula.

He is; It's detailed on the info for the app in iTunes. Since you need iTunes to read that, I'll simply post a screenshot: http://img.skitch.com/20090703-e7kkm8i7f4wdq9ir92td898wr3.jpg (skitch may eventually delete that image after a while...)

The Norton Forums are now offline.

http://skitch.com/ecrist/b8t5e/forum-maintenance

Based upon your understanding of what socialism is, is this YOU in the documentary "Right America"?

Really, doughy, illiterate and a head full of piercings is no way to go through life, boy!

But... *gasp* that isn't simply the Democrat way! The Democrat way is to simply throw money at a problem without any oversight or planning, call it "solved", and then gasp again when the problem comes up next election cycle and they need to "fix" it by throwing more money without any oversight or planning... repeat ad nauseum.

You just described the TARP program that was created by George W. Bush and his appointees. Don't pretend the Republicans are any better.

As to the rest of it --- the economy is bleeding to death. See this image if you disbelieve me. Most reputable economists think that with monetary policy maxed out (interest rates are effectively zero), the only thing we can do to stop the bleeding is to use fiscal policy, i.e., spend a ton of money and pray.

They may indeed be wrong. However, it's generally agreed that the alternative (doing nothing) is going to be much, much worse. Balancing our budget sure isn't going to do anything if the economy drops into a deep recession, so this is a risk worth taking. Again, not a politically popular risk --- just our only chance to avert catastrophe.

Check out how this story came through my google reader: http://skitch.com/froboy/9bkg/chromevsie

wow, scary!
see for yourself:
http://skitch.com/slowburn/2fyx/wozniak-death-prediction

Use Option key as Meta key

Well.. I can see it on my screen :)

http://skitch.com/bragiragnarson/ec7x/domink-kapusta

That ain't a bottle of Moxie(TM) in that brown paper bag in his right hand.

Feel safer, now?