I agree with the other reply-- I'm not quite sure what to make of your "scene", but I will say that embedding ads in programming is nothing new. It's slightly more subtle now than it used to be, but in the 1940s-1950s it was common to have the star of a show talk about the benefits of the product for five minutes in the middle of a scene, or right before a commercial.
For a good laugh, go rent "Mac and Me" if you can find it. Some of the best product placement of all time.
Using Ethanol as a fuel is mostly a way to funnel money to Corn Belt farmers.
The New York Times ran an interesting story about agriculture and obesity in October, basically discussing how, among other things, American corn has traditionally been so overproduced that corn-growers are desperate to find ways to use it. In the 19th century, the solution was to use it to make alcohol-- the average US citizen's consumption of corn-based alcohol then was more than FIVE times what it is now.
Following the backlash against drinking alcohol around the turn of the century, now much of the corn glut is used as a cheep sweetener. Corn syrup has replaced sugar in most sodas, candy, etc since the 1980s. The article suggests that the move from corn-alcohol to corn-syrup is responsible for the 60% obesity increase plus dramatic increases in "adult-onset" Diabetes.
So is the corn-as-fuel studies a similar way to answer the question-- how do we get rid of all this corn?
Also, see this NYTimes editorial. Some interesting stats in there as well.
Has anyone else who is learning to play a musical instrument had this experience:
Say you're learning guitar, and there's a chord or finger-picking sequence or something that's very difficult (well, at least for me). If I practice it over and over, I might never quite get it. But after a night's sleep when I come back to it, I find that somehow overnight it's "soaked in". Like the rest time was important for my brain to assimilate the practice, so that afterward it is much easier than before.
Someone told me the same thing happened to her when playing piano. She couldn't get it the first time she practiced (repeating the lesson over and over), but when she came back to it the next day, it felt much more natural.
I hate accidentally clicking the dock and launching/opening something when reaching for a scrollbar. It happens a lot, usually resulting in a mad scramble for the "FORCE QUIT" option.
All that's needed is a preference that says:
"Use Double-Clicking on Dock"
Give me that and windowshade (not the hack version), and I'll be a happy user.
Since partially completed ports apparently count, I recommend checking out the developer Aqua release of OpenOffice.org, Neoffice. Downloads of a test binary have been here for awhile.
Moreover, just yesterday, lead developer Dan Williams posted this state-of-the-port message on what still needs to be done to have a complete port of OO.o in Aqua:
All in all, these aren't problems that require all that much technical expertise, just a lot of trial and error, and a bunch of debugging. A lot of the issues that we have had for a long time, like the widgets and menus and the event loop, are actually solved; we simply need to convert our old hacks over to the new frameworks or clean up the code as it is. We can of course do this, but as always it requires more manpower.
in my experience telephone polls aren't used as conclusive findings... but as rough indicators and estimates of the current state of whatever issue is being polled.
Yes, but politicians routinely rely on polls for forming policy. Maybe they shouldn't, but they do.
When the issue at hand is something like, "Should cell phone usage be permitted while driving?", only polling land-line customers may give a tremendously skewed view of the public's opinion on this issue.
My friend paid his $300 bucks for AppleCare and they told him that the power cord wasn't covered. Something about "wear and tear". I haven't tried going to Apple yet with mine, because I didn't think it would be covered, but since I did pay for AppleCare and all, it might not be a bad idea... if they helped you out, maybe they'll do the same for me.
Still, it seems $80 bucks for an AC adapter is pretty crazy.
A new Portable Power Adapter - 65W (for iBook & PowerBook) are about $80 bucks.. The Apple ones are somewhat stylish with the green/orange light, but pretty poorly constructed and fall apart quickly. I know one guy who's gone through three of them in a year, and mine is starting to fray (dangerous!) and will need to be replaced very soon. Why? The cord is thin and flimsy.
Today I purchased an Airport card as a gift for a friend's iBook. I'm presuming it's the exact same wireless technology as a $40 PC wireless card. But my cost was $79. An "extreme" 802.11g card would cost another twenty bucks.
So yeah, after you lay down for a mac, the accessory price gouging does piss me off.
Speaking of which, can anyone recommend a cheap alternative to Apple's 65W power adapter for the iBooks and Powerbooks?
At first I gotta admit I was anti-Algernon. He seemed pretty clueless and clumsy and had no political savvy whatsoever. I'd have said completely unelectable. But he seemed to grow into his candidacy-- more comfortable giving speeches, and more amazingly... they actually started making sense to these skeptical ears! In fact, some of his policy proposals are downright ingenious if you ask me. His plan to completely eliminate all government taxes, fees, and licenses while simultaneously increasing services... with a budget surplus is so obvious and simple. Why hasn't anyone suggested this before?! And his ideas on perpetual, renewable energy sources are revolutionary as is his two-week-peace plan for the Middle East. It actually sounds doable! And did you read that some Berkeley English professor just wrote an editorial noticing that all his speeches are in iambic pentameter?
Anyway, I'm very excited and I hope he can keep this momentum up till Election Day!
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I think this happened once already.
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So the name isn't going to be Winux
Winux Is Not... Uh... Xenix?
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...is pulling a prank. (Be sure to try thoraxcorp's site too.)
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Last I checked copyright infringement was still illegal.
Yeah, but now it's illegaler.
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What about the forgotten windows?
Or the other one. (Apple II Version)
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There once was a fellow named Dillon
Whom everyone thought was a villain,
He cried, "That's not me!"
"I use BSD!"
"Because I find it fulfillin'."
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I agree with the other reply-- I'm not quite sure what to make of your "scene", but I will say that embedding ads in programming is nothing new. It's slightly more subtle now than it used to be, but in the 1940s-1950s it was common to have the star of a show talk about the benefits of the product for five minutes in the middle of a scene, or right before a commercial.
For a good laugh, go rent "Mac and Me" if you can find it. Some of the best product placement of all time.
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..or those who want a big burst of "holy shit that's right!", here's a little sample of what an arcade SOUNDED like, circa 1981...
By 1983, game audio was getting more advanced, and sounded a bit like this.
A couple more are here.
Pacman fever. It's driving me crazy.
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Quoth the poster: "I want to burn in the Sun (or at least the egomaniacal part of me.)"
I know *exactly* how you feel.
Give it 4-5 billion years or so and you'll get your wish.
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Dude, it's a glistening drop.
Sheesh. Next you'll wanna know what nougat is.
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Using Ethanol as a fuel is mostly a way to funnel money to Corn Belt farmers.
The New York Times ran an interesting story about agriculture and obesity in October, basically discussing how, among other things, American corn has traditionally been so overproduced that corn-growers are desperate to find ways to use it. In the 19th century, the solution was to use it to make alcohol-- the average US citizen's consumption of corn-based alcohol then was more than FIVE times what it is now.
Following the backlash against drinking alcohol around the turn of the century, now much of the corn glut is used as a cheep sweetener. Corn syrup has replaced sugar in most sodas, candy, etc since the 1980s. The article suggests that the move from corn-alcohol to corn-syrup is responsible for the 60% obesity increase plus dramatic increases in "adult-onset" Diabetes.
So is the corn-as-fuel studies a similar way to answer the question-- how do we get rid of all this corn?
Also, see this NYTimes editorial. Some interesting stats in there as well.
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I don't know which video effect you're referring to, but my favorite was the silhoutte of the girl who looks over and pulls down the "shade"/B stream.
Then there was the cheerleader doing the cartwheel.
Good times, good times.
I tell ya, Jobs was more of a visionary than any of us thought.
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Has anyone else who is learning to play a musical instrument had this experience:
Say you're learning guitar, and there's a chord or finger-picking sequence or something that's very difficult (well, at least for me). If I practice it over and over, I might never quite get it. But after a night's sleep when I come back to it, I find that somehow overnight it's "soaked in". Like the rest time was important for my brain to assimilate the practice, so that afterward it is much easier than before.
Someone told me the same thing happened to her when playing piano. She couldn't get it the first time she practiced (repeating the lesson over and over), but when she came back to it the next day, it felt much more natural.
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Been saying this for years--
I hate accidentally clicking the dock and launching/opening something when reaching for a scrollbar. It happens a lot, usually resulting in a mad scramble for the "FORCE QUIT" option.
All that's needed is a preference that says:
"Use Double-Clicking on Dock"
Give me that and windowshade (not the hack version), and I'll be a happy user.
W
I'm not holding my breath.
You might not need to. See The State of the Aqua Port 2004 message from developer Dan Williams.
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Since partially completed ports apparently count, I recommend checking out the developer Aqua release of OpenOffice.org, Neoffice. Downloads of a test binary have been here for awhile.
Moreover, just yesterday, lead developer Dan Williams posted this state-of-the-port message on what still needs to be done to have a complete port of OO.o in Aqua:
All in all, these aren't problems that require all that much technical expertise, just a lot of trial and error, and a bunch of debugging. A lot of the issues that we have had for a long time, like the widgets and menus and the event loop, are actually solved; we simply need to convert our old hacks over to the new frameworks or clean up the code as it is. We can of course do this, but as always it requires more manpower.
So? Volunteers?
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in my experience telephone polls aren't used as conclusive findings ... but as rough indicators and estimates of the current state of whatever issue is being polled.
Yes, but politicians routinely rely on polls for forming policy. Maybe they shouldn't, but they do.
When the issue at hand is something like, "Should cell phone usage be permitted while driving?", only polling land-line customers may give a tremendously skewed view of the public's opinion on this issue.
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Surprisingly, the parent didn't post any links to the famous picture of the debacle. Well, I guess it turns out there are a few of them.
Here are three, including a wide shot I hadn't seen before..
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Thanks for the info.
My friend paid his $300 bucks for AppleCare and they told him that the power cord wasn't covered. Something about "wear and tear". I haven't tried going to Apple yet with mine, because I didn't think it would be covered, but since I did pay for AppleCare and all, it might not be a bad idea... if they helped you out, maybe they'll do the same for me.
Still, it seems $80 bucks for an AC adapter is pretty crazy.
W
A new Portable Power Adapter - 65W (for iBook & PowerBook) are about $80 bucks.. The Apple ones are somewhat stylish with the green/orange light, but pretty poorly constructed and fall apart quickly. I know one guy who's gone through three of them in a year, and mine is starting to fray (dangerous!) and will need to be replaced very soon. Why? The cord is thin and flimsy.
Today I purchased an Airport card as a gift for a friend's iBook. I'm presuming it's the exact same wireless technology as a $40 PC wireless card. But my cost was $79. An "extreme" 802.11g card would cost another twenty bucks.
So yeah, after you lay down for a mac, the accessory price gouging does piss me off.
Speaking of which, can anyone recommend a cheap alternative to Apple's 65W power adapter for the iBooks and Powerbooks?
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In Jaguar (OS X 10.2) and earlier, type:
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nidump passwd
In Panther (10.3+) it will not show the hashes, and I believe a different algorythm is used anyway.
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. It would really suck if someone got one of my passwords by sniffing when I was using telnet (yes, it happened;
And don't forget keystroke loggers.
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At first I gotta admit I was anti-Algernon. He seemed pretty clueless and clumsy and had no political savvy whatsoever. I'd have said completely unelectable. But he seemed to grow into his candidacy-- more comfortable giving speeches, and more amazingly... they actually started making sense to these skeptical ears! In fact, some of his policy proposals are downright ingenious if you ask me. His plan to completely eliminate all government taxes, fees, and licenses while simultaneously increasing services... with a budget surplus is so obvious and simple. Why hasn't anyone suggested this before?! And his ideas on perpetual, renewable energy sources are revolutionary as is his two-week-peace plan for the Middle East. It actually sounds doable! And did you read that some Berkeley English professor just wrote an editorial noticing that all his speeches are in iambic pentameter?
Anyway, I'm very excited and I hope he can keep this momentum up till Election Day!
W