I felt that way for a while, then I went to other countries and was surprised that they were 75% unreasonable. America's just more unreasonable in public. We don't have the monopoly on it, just the export license =)
When you shoot a government employee for subjecting you, I'll pay attention to the gun loonies. Until then, I'll worry about my neighbor accidentally letting his kid blow me away because of his carelessness with his handgun.
Sure it renders quickly, but what the hell is the story behind the UI parts? Clicking and dragging to select text in the location field takes about three seconds to finish. It's unusable! And that's on a 933. I'm sticking with OmniWeb until Chimera can get its responsiveness together. For a browser who's selling point is speed, I don't quite get why its so slow.
A thing it was. Barely housebroken. I loved its mail, though. I forget why I liked it so much, but it had no features, barely worked, but I left it kicking and screaming. I should dig up my old OpenDoc and Cyberdog CDs to see them running on Mac OS X (if OD even works in 9.2.2.) Aaah...those were the days.
The only difference is that I can look up the APIs that StarOffice is using whenever I want to. If I write a polite letter to MS asking to receive a copy of the Paperclip Character API, I'd receive a polite response of total silence. If I want to see the Linux animated paperclip api, I simply look at/usr/src/linux/include/p-clip.h
That's what I said. Just because I finished the post with a different thought from the original thought doesn't mean that the first thought wasn't there.
Gee whiz, I'm glad I have a Mac so I can use a sensible format like tar and not have to wait for non-existant compression to take place. I send my PC friends tarfiles and they freak out. It's usually all right after I assure them that WinZip can deal with crazy alien formats like tar.gz.
"Just" because it's a "space opera" doesn't mean that it doesn't have to be good. It still has to have a decent story and be interesting to watch.
I actually like AoTC very much. I'm talking more about TPM. Which was complete dross. _That_ was an uninteresting movie, no matter what you call it. Attack of the Clones, despite taking way to long to get off the ground, was surprisingly good. ---potential spoiler--- In fact, the scene on the clone planet in those sterile white corridors with those creepy sterile aliens reminded me the most of the fear of non-specific foreboding that I recall from when I first saw Star Wars when I was a young-un in the '80s.
Occam's Razor, indeed. And I agree with you. But it's fairly un-rigorous to just leave it at "better written and better directed." The person who writes the articles for a living probably wants to figure out why it's better written and better directed. Having a better writer and a better director is much of the story, of course, but there is often something behind the lesser writing and direction.
Hardly. It's a fascinating eulogy for a period that was in its closing days and an invective against the complacency of spirit that he saw replacing it.
I'll second the earlier poster's sentiments. "The Great Shark Hunt" is a fantastic collection of some of the best journalism that I've ever read. "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved" is possibly the most apt capturing of the character of a situation that I've ever seen. It's highly recommended to all.
I didn't grow up with Spider-Man at all. Before the movie came out, I didn't know who Mary Jane, et al were. I knew that there was a guy named Peter who had been bitten by a bug and turned into some sort of spider-enhanced man. That's it. I loved the movie. (And I'm extremely arachnaphobic, to boot. I had to close my eyes during the big Columbia University spider scene in the beginning.)
Um, you had a good point until your last line, in which you tell everyone to justify the paranoia of the industry. Perhaps you should re-think your motivations and your intentions and your logic. But that's just me.
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I felt that way for a while, then I went to other countries and was surprised that they were 75% unreasonable. America's just more unreasonable in public. We don't have the monopoly on it, just the export license =)
Now _that's_ a lesson in capitalism!
Cut back on the coffee, man.
Burly diodes?
1.18 New Zealand Dollars =)
(last response as this is drifting dangerously off topic)
I just don't see the sense in having things that were designed with no purpose than to kill people sitting around.
And when I observe the rest of what the majority of people who are rabidly in favor of gun ownership thinks, I know I'm right.
I'd agree with you more if people like my favorite CMU professor didn't do things like this.
When you shoot a government employee for subjecting you, I'll pay attention to the gun loonies. Until then, I'll worry about my neighbor accidentally letting his kid blow me away because of his carelessness with his handgun.
It did that from the first time I used it on a pristine machine. Still does it.
What's your suggested alternative? Shooting the spammers? That's more sensible.
It doesn't look all that hot. Sort of like what would happen if an Apple designer was told to design a microwave oven at the end of a very long day.
Sure it renders quickly, but what the hell is the story behind the UI parts? Clicking and dragging to select text in the location field takes about three seconds to finish. It's unusable! And that's on a 933. I'm sticking with OmniWeb until Chimera can get its responsiveness together. For a browser who's selling point is speed, I don't quite get why its so slow.
A thing it was. Barely housebroken. I loved its mail, though. I forget why I liked it so much, but it had no features, barely worked, but I left it kicking and screaming. I should dig up my old OpenDoc and Cyberdog CDs to see them running on Mac OS X (if OD even works in 9.2.2.) Aaah...those were the days.
The only difference is that I can look up the APIs that StarOffice is using whenever I want to. If I write a polite letter to MS asking to receive a copy of the Paperclip Character API, I'd receive a polite response of total silence. If I want to see the Linux animated paperclip api, I simply look at /usr/src/linux/include/p-clip.h
That's what I said. Just because I finished the post with a different thought from the original thought doesn't mean that the first thought wasn't there.
Gee whiz, I'm glad I have a Mac so I can use a sensible format like tar and not have to wait for non-existant compression to take place. I send my PC friends tarfiles and they freak out. It's usually all right after I assure them that WinZip can deal with crazy alien formats like tar.gz.
"Just" because it's a "space opera" doesn't mean that it doesn't have to be good. It still has to have a decent story and be interesting to watch.
I actually like AoTC very much. I'm talking more about TPM. Which was complete dross. _That_ was an uninteresting movie, no matter what you call it. Attack of the Clones, despite taking way to long to get off the ground, was surprisingly good.
---potential spoiler---
In fact, the scene on the clone planet in those sterile white corridors with those creepy sterile aliens reminded me the most of the fear of non-specific foreboding that I recall from when I first saw Star Wars when I was a young-un in the '80s.
Occam's Razor, indeed. And I agree with you. But it's fairly un-rigorous to just leave it at "better written and better directed." The person who writes the articles for a living probably wants to figure out why it's better written and better directed. Having a better writer and a better director is much of the story, of course, but there is often something behind the lesser writing and direction.
Hardly. It's a fascinating eulogy for a period that was in its closing days and an invective against the complacency of spirit that he saw replacing it.
I'll second the earlier poster's sentiments. "The Great Shark Hunt" is a fantastic collection of some of the best journalism that I've ever read. "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved" is possibly the most apt capturing of the character of a situation that I've ever seen. It's highly recommended to all.
I didn't grow up with Spider-Man at all. Before the movie came out, I didn't know who Mary Jane, et al were. I knew that there was a guy named Peter who had been bitten by a bug and turned into some sort of spider-enhanced man. That's it. I loved the movie. (And I'm extremely arachnaphobic, to boot. I had to close my eyes during the big Columbia University spider scene in the beginning.)
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Go Steve. He really is the man, btw. Very slick. The video is well worth the watch.
I'd wager that I know a number of Mac users who are more sophisticated computer users than you are. Sure that's a flame, but it's a fairly safe wager.
Um, you had a good point until your last line, in which you tell everyone to justify the paranoia of the industry. Perhaps you should re-think your motivations and your intentions and your logic. But that's just me.
One example is the Highway Hi-Fi from Chrysler. Snazzy thing, it is.