Grievous [...] seemed to be recovering from a bad cold)
You didn't watch the Clone Wars cartoon series. You should. Best imagining of the Star Wars universe since Episode V. Windu singlehandedly tearing apart a thousand battledroid army is worth the price of admission alone. (Or the time to get the torrents.) Long after I have allowed myself to forget Eps I,II,III,and VI; the cartoons will still be on my shelf.
Anyhoo, the cartoons end *just* before the start of Episode III, with Grievous taking off in his ship with the emperor. As they are taking off Windu attacks and half crushes Grievous (a pretty badass scene considering that Grievous had by that time killed a lot of jedi without even breaking a sweat). The Grievous in the movie is a pale shadow of the terrifying death droid from the cartoons.
Just a recognition that not all of your audience are looking for tits and ass.
Sure, but what if most of your audience is? I know that I'd spend more time at a booth with a babe than one without. Unless the product was really, really crappy.
Digital Copy: You have a free digital copy. Now the only incentive into buying the work is so you have a physical book in your house - which, in and of itself is not enough reason for many people.
We aren't evolved to be risk takers. We are evolved to have a sufficently powerful intellect that we can think our way out of the flight or flight reflex and critically analyze a sitution for benefit.
Three humans once sealed themselves inside a tin can sitting on top of tons of combustibles, then ignited them.
Mind-bogglingly stupid simplification. If that were what happened then the Apollo program would have been appropriately mocked. Those humans relied on a lot of work, a lot of dedication, a lot of design, a lot of safety, and a lot of will to get to the moon. Sure it was a risk, but it was a calculated risk.
These gasoline swinging idiots didn't take a calculated risk. They didn't even know that they were taking a risk, I highly doubt they thought it through.
To compare these morons to the US space program is...aahh!
BTW, the statement: I refuse to allow myself to feel contempt for them. implies that you do feel contempt for them, but are supressing it.
In whatever it is you do, imagine if you had to conduct your business with some big brawny guy hanging out of a g-string.
You're modifying your argument to make it stronger; "business" isn't really conducted at these trade shows. Products are shown off and hyped up and any edge to get more attention is used; including sex.
Now, if (as a straight, married, male) my industry held an annual convention for new product (new meeting, new gadgets, whatever) promotion; and my industry was primarily made up of people who would find dancing sexy men appealing (considering I'm a librarian, that's not too far-fetched); then I wouldn't really have a problem with said dancing men being used by companies in their promotions.
Why should it bother me? Oh no, there's a bored half-naked dude standing around the new Docutek Web Interface promotion?
Yes! I would love to use two mice! Grab two edges of a window and flip it around for config access on the back (like an Apple widget). Click and drag a window on the 2d plane with one mouse, the other moves it forward and backward (or farther and closer). That would be really awesome.
Did you do an upgrade install? A bad idea normally, and especially bad in this case considering the radical changes to the way the file system works.
I have Tiger successfully running on 800Mhz and 900Mhz G3 iBooks, as well as a dual 1.8Ghz powermac. While Spotlight (and Tiger) fly on the powermac, they are pretty snappy on the iBooks too. My wife even commented on how much faster her iBook was with Tiger.
I wonder what the expectations were for anyone that is disappointed by Spotlight.
I started off my Tiger use by messing around with Spotlight. "Wow, all the emails I ever sent to [name]!" "Cool, any word document that has [project] in title!" etc.
Then I thought about some of the complex and hard to maintain folder hierarchies I have. The folder system made it generally easy to find my files, but only if I was using them in a manner that I had expected when I started the organization. Spotlight could be the answer, I thought.
So I took a non-critical directory nest and used my existing folder system and Automator to quickly add spotlight comments to the files. (Select all files in [proj_A directory], add [proj_A] comment to files.)
Now I could hit command-space and type in a key phrase or two and get all the files in a nice menu. Clicking on "show all" brings up a nice, and constantly updated finder window for the search. Ah, now we're getting somewhere.
So I created some smart folders based on current criteria (and a few theoretical cases). Woo! Now I have a dynamic directory structure! Add a few custom Automator plug-ins (so I can right click files and do expected actions like "Move file to [dir] and add comment [helpful metadata]".)
Smart folders (driven by Spotlight) in email is pretty handy also. A couple weeks ago my wife and I were having our yard landscaped. This, naturally, involved a lot of emails back and forth with the landscapers over plant choice, guidelines, schedules, etc. So rather than setup a rule and folder for something temporary; I right clicked on the landscaper's email address and clicked "Create a smart folder". Ta da! Now I don't even have to care where the email goes, any email from the landscapers is all grouped together. When the work was finished, I deleted the smart mailbox and the clutter was gone. I still have their emails in my general sub-inbox should I have to refer to something. All emails and advice are still just a quick spotlight search away. For example: "water magnolia" to find the watering advice for our new tree.
And then there's iPhoto. With the help of the excellent iPhoto Keyword Assistant I have been diligently adding metadata to all of my digital photos. While KA fixes one of iPhoto's big shortcomings (an awful interface to the keywords, especially if you have a lot); using the keywords was still clunky. You have to start iPhoto, open up a special sub-window and then click on the keywords you want. This interface is barely acceptable when you only have a dozen keywords; when you have five dozen it is quickly painful.
Spotlight fixes this. It includes searching by iPhoto keyword!* So I can start up a spotlight seach, type "obx sunset" to see all the sunset pictures I've taken at the Outer Banks. Or "munich" for all the pictures of Munich, or "munich cathedrals"... you get the idea. Sure if you haven't been using keywords until now you have your work cut out for you (although KA again comes to the rescue with a nice interface for adding new keywords). But if you have, then Spotlight is incredibly and totally awesome! Those searches bring up the standard spotlight results page, I can browse the returned pictures and even run a nice slideshow: all without even launching iPhoto!
* There have been reports of problems with this working for some people, and I was one of them. It seems that when spotlight finishes it major index, it still has some indexing tasks left in the background and iPhoto keywords are one of those. I noticed that a spotlight keyword search only worked partially at first. Any photos I had recently worked on or added were in, and sporadic other photos as well. So I created a keyword called "temp" and added it to every photo, then deleted it. After that all of my photos were indexed.
Spotlight has even changed how I launch applications. I used to have a dock chock full of any applications I might launch.
Vader restores balance to the force by wiping the slate clean and killing off the Sith and the Jedi. The Jedi of Eps I-III completely ignore the dark side (which isn't "evil"), and the Sith completely ignore the light side.
After Vader, Luke is free to create a new and balanced Jedi culture.
Vader restores balance to the force by both wiping out the Sith (by killing the Emperor) and the Jedi. Luke is then free to essentially restart the order in a proper and balanced way. (As evidenced by the sequel books.)
Sure TiVO is a VCR on steroids, and the VCR sure benefited from them. But I don't see how you can't see how it is a computer...that does less than a computer.
Convergence is about combining the features of products (a watch and an mp3 player; a printer and a scanner; a pencil and a pen; etc). You can either see the TiVO as a superVCR or a watered down computer, but it's not the combination of a VCR and a computer. A computer with a tv tuner and corresponding software is the combination of a VCR and a computer.
I notice convergence happening to some product lines, and I avoid them because they are generally poorly designed and a like separation of use. Sometimes I want to jog and listen to music, a really tiny mp3 player is perfect for this. That same really tiny mp3 player would be an awful phone because it's way to small to be comfortable.
So what about that mp3 playing watch? They are pretty stylish and have gotten decent reviews, but I sure don't see a lot of watch listening.
So why use that PC for gaming when a console does it just as well?
Join me in the dark side, I have vaulted from PC gaming to consoles and I'm having much more fun. But then, I love 3d-person action, driving and fighting games more than I love FPSs. Ninja Gaiden is where it's at. Resident Evil 4 is totally awesome.
What the deuce? I've been driving around in a Jetta Wagon TDI for two years. The only reason we got a Jetta TDI instead of a Passat is that the Passat isn't available with a manual transmission.
Golf, Beetle, Jetta, Passat, Toureg are all available with TDI engines. Try em out, but the waiting list is pretty lengthy because they are selling like freakin' hot cakes.
My wife and I keep our TDI pumped with biodiesel too. Less emissions, less smell, and our gas was living plant material mere years (or months) ago. Staying in the current carbon cycle is better than releasing carbon stored millions of years ago.
You are only reenforcing the fact that you have probably never really gone "off-road" or ever raced in real life. Off-road in this sense doesn't mean "gravel road" or sand as you seem to think; it means hilly rock strewn landscape. It is amazingly easy to flip or snap an axle (which happened to the leading team last year) and most drivers would simply not be up to the task.
Oh sarcastic, or perhaps sardonic. Many people (including myself) used the calculator and address books of phones for a week, and then no more. Of course there are many more people than many people.
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Grievous [...] seemed to be recovering from a bad cold)
You didn't watch the Clone Wars cartoon series. You should. Best imagining of the Star Wars universe since Episode V. Windu singlehandedly tearing apart a thousand battledroid army is worth the price of admission alone. (Or the time to get the torrents.) Long after I have allowed myself to forget Eps I,II,III,and VI; the cartoons will still be on my shelf.
Anyhoo, the cartoons end *just* before the start of Episode III, with Grievous taking off in his ship with the emperor. As they are taking off Windu attacks and half crushes Grievous (a pretty badass scene considering that Grievous had by that time killed a lot of jedi without even breaking a sweat). The Grievous in the movie is a pale shadow of the terrifying death droid from the cartoons.
Like Boingboing.net, gizmodo.com, sploid.com, etc?
That's weird. Have you done a true double-blind (or even blind) test?
Do you have a need to feel superior to your poor iTunes using friends and family?
Just a recognition that not all of your audience are looking for tits and ass.
Sure, but what if most of your audience is? I know that I'd spend more time at a booth with a babe than one without. Unless the product was really, really crappy.
Digital Copy: You have a free digital copy. Now the only incentive into buying the work is so you have a physical book in your house - which, in and of itself is not enough reason for many people.
Are eBooks and the like really so popular?
We aren't evolved to be risk takers. We are evolved to have a sufficently powerful intellect that we can think our way out of the flight or flight reflex and critically analyze a sitution for benefit.
Three humans once sealed themselves inside a tin can sitting on top of tons of combustibles, then ignited them.
Mind-bogglingly stupid simplification. If that were what happened then the Apollo program would have been appropriately mocked. Those humans relied on a lot of work, a lot of dedication, a lot of design, a lot of safety, and a lot of will to get to the moon. Sure it was a risk, but it was a calculated risk.
These gasoline swinging idiots didn't take a calculated risk. They didn't even know that they were taking a risk, I highly doubt they thought it through.
To compare these morons to the US space program is...aahh!
BTW, the statement: I refuse to allow myself to feel contempt for them. implies that you do feel contempt for them, but are supressing it.
In whatever it is you do, imagine if you had to conduct your business with some big brawny guy hanging out of a g-string.
You're modifying your argument to make it stronger; "business" isn't really conducted at these trade shows. Products are shown off and hyped up and any edge to get more attention is used; including sex.
Now, if (as a straight, married, male) my industry held an annual convention for new product (new meeting, new gadgets, whatever) promotion; and my industry was primarily made up of people who would find dancing sexy men appealing (considering I'm a librarian, that's not too far-fetched); then I wouldn't really have a problem with said dancing men being used by companies in their promotions.
Why should it bother me? Oh no, there's a bored half-naked dude standing around the new Docutek Web Interface promotion?
If I'm unaware of the distinction, then -- for many reasonable purposes -- there is none.
This is Looney Tunes logic. If you ran off the edge of a cliff and didn't know it, would you fall?
Yes! I would love to use two mice! Grab two edges of a window and flip it around for config access on the back (like an Apple widget). Click and drag a window on the 2d plane with one mouse, the other moves it forward and backward (or farther and closer). That would be really awesome.
Did you do an upgrade install? A bad idea normally, and especially bad in this case considering the radical changes to the way the file system works.
I have Tiger successfully running on 800Mhz and 900Mhz G3 iBooks, as well as a dual 1.8Ghz powermac. While Spotlight (and Tiger) fly on the powermac, they are pretty snappy on the iBooks too. My wife even commented on how much faster her iBook was with Tiger.
I wonder what the expectations were for anyone that is disappointed by Spotlight.
... you get the idea. Sure if you haven't been using keywords until now you have your work cut out for you (although KA again comes to the rescue with a nice interface for adding new keywords). But if you have, then Spotlight is incredibly and totally awesome! Those searches bring up the standard spotlight results page, I can browse the returned pictures and even run a nice slideshow: all without even launching iPhoto!
I started off my Tiger use by messing around with Spotlight. "Wow, all the emails I ever sent to [name]!" "Cool, any word document that has [project] in title!" etc.
Then I thought about some of the complex and hard to maintain folder hierarchies I have. The folder system made it generally easy to find my files, but only if I was using them in a manner that I had expected when I started the organization. Spotlight could be the answer, I thought.
So I took a non-critical directory nest and used my existing folder system and Automator to quickly add spotlight comments to the files. (Select all files in [proj_A directory], add [proj_A] comment to files.)
Now I could hit command-space and type in a key phrase or two and get all the files in a nice menu. Clicking on "show all" brings up a nice, and constantly updated finder window for the search. Ah, now we're getting somewhere.
So I created some smart folders based on current criteria (and a few theoretical cases). Woo! Now I have a dynamic directory structure! Add a few custom Automator plug-ins (so I can right click files and do expected actions like "Move file to [dir] and add comment [helpful metadata]".)
Smart folders (driven by Spotlight) in email is pretty handy also. A couple weeks ago my wife and I were having our yard landscaped. This, naturally, involved a lot of emails back and forth with the landscapers over plant choice, guidelines, schedules, etc. So rather than setup a rule and folder for something temporary; I right clicked on the landscaper's email address and clicked "Create a smart folder". Ta da! Now I don't even have to care where the email goes, any email from the landscapers is all grouped together. When the work was finished, I deleted the smart mailbox and the clutter was gone. I still have their emails in my general sub-inbox should I have to refer to something. All emails and advice are still just a quick spotlight search away. For example: "water magnolia" to find the watering advice for our new tree.
And then there's iPhoto. With the help of the excellent iPhoto Keyword Assistant I have been diligently adding metadata to all of my digital photos. While KA fixes one of iPhoto's big shortcomings (an awful interface to the keywords, especially if you have a lot); using the keywords was still clunky. You have to start iPhoto, open up a special sub-window and then click on the keywords you want. This interface is barely acceptable when you only have a dozen keywords; when you have five dozen it is quickly painful.
Spotlight fixes this. It includes searching by iPhoto keyword!* So I can start up a spotlight seach, type "obx sunset" to see all the sunset pictures I've taken at the Outer Banks. Or "munich" for all the pictures of Munich, or "munich cathedrals"
* There have been reports of problems with this working for some people, and I was one of them. It seems that when spotlight finishes it major index, it still has some indexing tasks left in the background and iPhoto keywords are one of those. I noticed that a spotlight keyword search only worked partially at first. Any photos I had recently worked on or added were in, and sporadic other photos as well. So I created a keyword called "temp" and added it to every photo, then deleted it. After that all of my photos were indexed.
Spotlight has even changed how I launch applications. I used to have a dock chock full of any applications I might launch.
Vader restores balance to the force by wiping the slate clean and killing off the Sith and the Jedi. The Jedi of Eps I-III completely ignore the dark side (which isn't "evil"), and the Sith completely ignore the light side.
After Vader, Luke is free to create a new and balanced Jedi culture.
Vader restores balance to the force by both wiping out the Sith (by killing the Emperor) and the Jedi. Luke is then free to essentially restart the order in a proper and balanced way. (As evidenced by the sequel books.)
Sure TiVO is a VCR on steroids, and the VCR sure benefited from them. But I don't see how you can't see how it is a computer...that does less than a computer.
Convergence is about combining the features of products (a watch and an mp3 player; a printer and a scanner; a pencil and a pen; etc). You can either see the TiVO as a superVCR or a watered down computer, but it's not the combination of a VCR and a computer. A computer with a tv tuner and corresponding software is the combination of a VCR and a computer.
I notice convergence happening to some product lines, and I avoid them because they are generally poorly designed and a like separation of use. Sometimes I want to jog and listen to music, a really tiny mp3 player is perfect for this. That same really tiny mp3 player would be an awful phone because it's way to small to be comfortable.
So what about that mp3 playing watch? They are pretty stylish and have gotten decent reviews, but I sure don't see a lot of watch listening.
Sure, because they sell before they get to the lot. Did you talk to a dealer or just look around?
I've only seen one Toureg TDI and that was on a brand new Volkswagen Dealer's lot, and it was sold. Impressive torque numbers on that thing.
If she were in such a panic as to not be thinking coherently, how could she have helped her baby?
Without being talked through some CPR, the baby would unfortunately be just as dead even if 911 rang through perfectly, immediately.
Think first, panic later. And CPR is the kind of stuff that should be mandatory learning for parents.
+5 insightful
So why use that PC for gaming when a console does it just as well?
Join me in the dark side, I have vaulted from PC gaming to consoles and I'm having much more fun. But then, I love 3d-person action, driving and fighting games more than I love FPSs. Ninja Gaiden is where it's at. Resident Evil 4 is totally awesome.
What the deuce? I've been driving around in a Jetta Wagon TDI for two years. The only reason we got a Jetta TDI instead of a Passat is that the Passat isn't available with a manual transmission.
Golf, Beetle, Jetta, Passat, Toureg are all available with TDI engines. Try em out, but the waiting list is pretty lengthy because they are selling like freakin' hot cakes.
My wife and I keep our TDI pumped with biodiesel too. Less emissions, less smell, and our gas was living plant material mere years (or months) ago. Staying in the current carbon cycle is better than releasing carbon stored millions of years ago.
Dirty diesel is why my TDI gets biodiesel. It runs pretty happily on it too.
I do want an autonomous car, but I don't think I want one that could get annoyed and try to run over me.
You are only reenforcing the fact that you have probably never really gone "off-road" or ever raced in real life. Off-road in this sense doesn't mean "gravel road" or sand as you seem to think; it means hilly rock strewn landscape. It is amazingly easy to flip or snap an axle (which happened to the leading team last year) and most drivers would simply not be up to the task.
Your link is misleading. It a depressingly standard report on human rights abuses in China and says nothing about robots.
China has the largest infantry in the world, they don't need robots.
Oh sarcastic, or perhaps sardonic. Many people (including myself) used the calculator and address books of phones for a week, and then no more. Of course there are many more people than many people.