Gmail's interface is an interesting design, hiding away functionality until you need a specific feature.
I always wondered if a generic window system could be designed in the same modular way, with smart application modules anticipating your behaviors and adding more and more specific, functional components into the UI as you perform a particular task.
As a freelance music writer, I care to some degree that my kind of writing can be reduced to this. His work provides some perspective, something I can use to step back and evaluate what I do. Am I a shill or doing something useful?
Outside of this, I find his work is a funny and insightful commentary on how the whole flow of media and information can fold back in on itself in an unexpected way. Metameta, baby.
So where do all these phones land?
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So much for laws against littering. Helium balloons don't stay aloft forever.
Apple: We need a G5 in the PowerBook line now, not six months from now.
The G4 is grossly underpowered in comparison with a Centrino -- many audio applications in particular that are run from a portable PC now run circles around the Apple equivalent.
We need a professional portable and the G4 has not cut it for at least a year now.
Dell should provide this service free of charge, and shouldn't require "training" costs for anyone involved if they're not going to bother paying for staff on their own end.
Dell does not generally pass savings on to customers. If anything, Dell's prices have remained as high as any other name-brand vendor, even in quantity. They are the largest PC vendor in the world, have the most efficient supply chain and should automatically be able to provide lower costs, service issues aside.
If you really want to feel cheated, think about how your employer is kicking back money to Dell (or whomever, for services that Dell should be paying for) and how that comes out of your paycheck.
Yes, but you have to pay for it and do all the work.
Let's recap this little transaction for our readers:
[1] Dell reduces costs by getting rid of first-tier support or moving it overseas [2] Dell charges you or your company a fee to enroll in this program [3] You do all the technical support (testing, troubleshooting, etc.) thus saving Dell on per-call communication costs [4] Dell pockets the savings from #1, #2, and #3
To put this into perspective, it used to be that landing at an airport was a pilot's discretion. That is, an air traffic controller could *advise* the pilot not to land, but it was a decision ultimately up to the pilot to make.
I think there are simply too many "what-if" situations that require a pilot have control over the aircraft to allow such critical remote control. What if the jet runs out of fuel? What if the no-flyover beacon directs the jet into other air traffic or really bad weather.
Moreover, what would stop a private citizen from enabling his or her own no-flyover beacon and causing havoc: From terrorists all the way to folks living next to an airport who deal with turbine noise.
A good idea at first, but with reflection seems to cause more problems than it solves.
According to the developer list, most of the bugs have been worked out and OO team are fairly close to finishing an installer for 1.1 for OS X. I wouldn't be surprised at a release next week for the SF expo.
This technology is here today. People conveniently forget about atrocities when the price is right.
Witness the mainstream press forgetting that Donald Rumsfeld, an official of the US govt, shook hands with Saddam during the 80s, or helped sell nuclear reactors to the North Koreans during his stint as a ABB executive. Or that George Bush II's father was VP when Saddam gassed Kurds.
Money is a good neural solvent. Sniff it up, America.
Look out the for a walk-on from Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. It's so awesome, Triumph walks up to Darth and asks him which button to press on his breather to call his parents to come pick him up! I'm pooping with anticipation!
Use a Mac -- you can just run Carbon Copy Cloner to put an image on a bootable, external FireWire drive and be done with all your image-related support issues!
Slashdot Mirror
Wow, that made me cry. This is such sad news. :(
Maybe the record companies should get a cut of every CD player and stereo system ever sold?
With the Internets, there's lot of networking to go around and plenty of places to run and hide.
I can just imagine the Microsoft testing labs...
Apps are not running natively:
"Developers should be able to recompile their Win32 Apps using WineLib and make them work in Mac OS X..."
Gmail's interface is an interesting design, hiding away functionality until you need a specific feature.
I always wondered if a generic window system could be designed in the same modular way, with smart application modules anticipating your behaviors and adding more and more specific, functional components into the UI as you perform a particular task.
...I won't need to sell some organs on the black market, after all?
Open Directory Administration
This very precisely details the schema used by Apple for its Open Directory (LDAP) service, to the point you will be bored to tears.
Why, the track cost is halved, obviously! *rimshot*
As a freelance music writer, I care to some degree that my kind of writing can be reduced to this. His work provides some perspective, something I can use to step back and evaluate what I do. Am I a shill or doing something useful?
Outside of this, I find his work is a funny and insightful commentary on how the whole flow of media and information can fold back in on itself in an unexpected way. Metameta, baby.
So much for laws against littering. Helium balloons don't stay aloft forever.
That's basically why QuickTime gets installed with iTunes, although most users never notice it until after the fact.
I'm almost tempted to believe that iTunes is a trojan horse for QuickTime, allowing Apple to sneak it onto everyone's computer. Very smart idea.
The G4 is grossly underpowered in comparison with a Centrino -- many audio applications in particular that are run from a portable PC now run circles around the Apple equivalent.
We need a professional portable and the G4 has not cut it for at least a year now.
-Alex
Quick response:
Dell should provide this service free of charge, and shouldn't require "training" costs for anyone involved if they're not going to bother paying for staff on their own end.
Dell does not generally pass savings on to customers. If anything, Dell's prices have remained as high as any other name-brand vendor, even in quantity. They are the largest PC vendor in the world, have the most efficient supply chain and should automatically be able to provide lower costs, service issues aside.
If you really want to feel cheated, think about how your employer is kicking back money to Dell (or whomever, for services that Dell should be paying for) and how that comes out of your paycheck.
Yes, but you have to pay for it and do all the work.
Let's recap this little transaction for our readers:
[1] Dell reduces costs by getting rid of first-tier support or moving it overseas
[2] Dell charges you or your company a fee to enroll in this program
[3] You do all the technical support (testing, troubleshooting, etc.) thus saving Dell on per-call communication costs
[4] Dell pockets the savings from #1, #2, and #3
Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
-Alex
...would you give away the only technology that might possibly save your company from bankrupcy?
Can this run rootless X11 Linux apps, like Apple's X11?
-Alex
To put this into perspective, it used to be that landing at an airport was a pilot's discretion. That is, an air traffic controller could *advise* the pilot not to land, but it was a decision ultimately up to the pilot to make.
I think there are simply too many "what-if" situations that require a pilot have control over the aircraft to allow such critical remote control. What if the jet runs out of fuel? What if the no-flyover beacon directs the jet into other air traffic or really bad weather.
Moreover, what would stop a private citizen from enabling his or her own no-flyover beacon and causing havoc: From terrorists all the way to folks living next to an airport who deal with turbine noise.
A good idea at first, but with reflection seems to cause more problems than it solves.
-Alex
According to the developer list, most of the bugs have been worked out and OO team are fairly close to finishing an installer for 1.1 for OS X. I wouldn't be surprised at a release next week for the SF expo.
-Alex
This technology is here today. People conveniently forget about atrocities when the price is right.
Witness the mainstream press forgetting that Donald Rumsfeld, an official of the US govt, shook hands with Saddam during the 80s, or helped sell nuclear reactors to the North Koreans during his stint as a ABB executive. Or that George Bush II's father was VP when Saddam gassed Kurds.
Money is a good neural solvent. Sniff it up, America.
-Alex
Who gave and who will give yet more money to the Bush election campaigns? There's your answer.
-Alex
Look out the for a walk-on from Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. It's so awesome, Triumph walks up to Darth and asks him which button to press on his breather to call his parents to come pick him up! I'm pooping with anticipation!
Some people say "just buy a Mac". I'm sorry, if I could afford a Mac I would.
Freedom is not free.
Mod parent up!
Use a Mac -- you can just run Carbon Copy Cloner to put an image on a bootable, external FireWire drive and be done with all your image-related support issues!
-Alex