"Apple is like a strange drug that you just can't quite get enough of," the musician Barry Adamson told the Guardian newspaper. "They shouldn't call it Mac. They should call it crack!"
Whoo! Oh, boy, my sides are aching! Oh, my ribs hurt! Oh, man!
Also...
Andrew Lackey, a visiting professor of business and economics journalism at Boston University, said Apple's monopoly in the Mac business allows it to get away with things companies in a competitive market can't...."With Apple you're a captive, and to some extent they abuse that privilege," Lackey said. "I would have thought Apple would be all folksy, like a Ben & Jerry's kind of company. But in my experience, PC companies are much more responsive."
BMW has a monopoly in the BMW market. GM has a monopoly in the GM market. And yet, they both sell cars and compete against each other. I guess that's why this guy is only a visiting professor of economics.;)
Most archetects don't use that much detail when designing a building
Please tell me you're not an architect.
No, no, he must have been talking about archetects, which could be construed as 'model builders', if one takes arche- as in archetype and -tect, as in, well, architect.
Of course, I just might be overestimating his cleverness.;)
Oooh! I'm getting Six Million Dollar Man Maskatron flashbacks! [shiver]
Add new realistic competition to your bionic adventures. Shrewd! Strong! He can fool your friends with mask disguises. His robot body is full of electronic pretend gadgetry-two "weapon" arms make him ALMOST invincible! Only you and Steve Austin know where to strike MASKATRON and "pow"-arms, legs-even his head flies off! Dressed in civilian clothes.
MASKATRON has two special weapon arms. Vice grip arm, and super suction arm make him an almost invincible foe of Steve Austin.
MASKATRON face masks make him look like Steve Austin or Oscar."
You're absolutely right! Can you even imagine some part of the government trying to think about decentralization? Ha! Their brains would probably explode! Stupid governments.
daeley% ping www.mutt.org PING mutt.org (194.70.126.33): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 194.70.126.33: icmp_seq=0 ttl=233 time=163.774 ms 64 bytes from 194.70.126.33: icmp_seq=1 ttl=233 time=163.453 ms 64 bytes from 194.70.126.33: icmp_seq=2 ttl=233 time=165.473 ms 64 bytes from 194.70.126.33: icmp_seq=3 ttl=233 time=163.528 ms 64 bytes from 194.70.126.33: icmp_seq=4 ttl=233 time=164.787 ms
With the Slashdotting of the poor mutt.org server officially underway, I believe the phrase 'screwed the pooch' is applicable here.;)
A binary of mutt precompiled for Mac OS X is available here, but I want to see if mutt.org has anything newer.
Using your logic, we should just teach people how to use calculators rather than arithmetic, much less Algebra.
Of course the timeworn complaint of 'when am I ever going to use this?' will shine forth. Thing is, you aren't just learning to use Algebra, you're learning a way to think. Sometimes the means is more important than the perceived end. Teaching someone *how* to organize their thoughts, to think logically, is at least as important, perhaps moreso, than what to think or what to do with their thoughts. Same thing goes on the humanities side.
Just build a swimming pool around your local McDonald's, then include a diving board, but no ladder to get out. Problem solved!:)
Off-topic note: This is my 500th comment. I asked in my journal what I should do to mark my 500th comment, and somebody (can't imagine who) said I should say this: 'Not few enough to claim I have a life, and not enough to be super cool like gmhowell (who is currently typing number 2694).' So this message is dedicated to gmhowell, poster extraordinaire, to whose lofty heights (up to 2712 comments as of this writing) I can but dream to aspire.
Besides, he's got FortKnox beat by at least 400.;)
When you said on episode #18739 of Saturday Night Live: 'Get a life... will ya, people? I mean, for cryin' out loud, it's just a TV show.', were you really reprising 'Evil Kirk' as Phil Hartman's (RIP) character suggested or did your motivation run deeper than that, say to 'Amok Time' when you had to battle Spock?;)
I'm going to divide your paragraph into two, because I don't think you meant to say color = quality. At least I hope not.:) If you did, please do an Ansel Adams query on Google immediately.
Is there a reason that most online comics are in Black and White? Is it a cost issue? A resource issue?
More than anything, I would said it's a tradition issue. There is a long-standing Sunday-in-color, rest-of-the-week-B&W tradition in newspaper comics.
While IANACA (...not a comics artist), how complicated color is to add would depend on how they produce the color work initially: manually or digitally. Coloring by hand takes a lot of time. Using a paintbucket in an illustration program doesn't take much at all.
I hope that a site like this will bring better quailty to the acutal art of on-line comics.
Same here, or at least brings more exposure to the quality comics out there. Witness PvP's announcement that their real-world books are going to be relaunched under the banner of Image Comics. Go Scott!:)
Online comics (and I don't mean web versions of print comics) have a long way to go before reaching the same 'credibility' with the non-online world as their traditional counterparts. People like Scott Kurtz are pushing the boundaries for what influence an online comic can have offline. It might take a generation or two of people getting more news online than off for digital comics to reach the same mindshare as, say, a Cathy or Doonesbury.
Slightly offtopic, I miss Bloom County and Calvin & Hobbes more every day I open the newspaper.
Slashdot Mirror
Ben, please continue using your powers for niceness, not evil. ;)
You take your hand, tuck the thumb and pinky in so the middle three fingers are exposed, and trace them on the screen with the stylus.
;)
To shutdown, use just the middle finger.
In Soviet Russia, you serve the server.
Mel in a dog costume
;)
Am I the only one that read the title as "Furry Road?"
Welllllllll, Mel in a dog costume is not the first thing I think of when I see that title you...
Never mind. This is a family geek discussion board.
You know, the darker color one wears with wingtips and plaid shorts. ;)
Yeah, right after they threw their pewter character figurines into a fire and heard them screaming as they melted. :)
Naw, they'll just say, 'Red planet? Doesn't look Red to us! It's a perfectly normal color!' and then the anime fans will be all up in arms again. ;)
"Apple is like a strange drug that you just can't quite get enough of," the musician Barry Adamson told the Guardian newspaper. "They shouldn't call it Mac. They should call it crack!"
;)
Whoo! Oh, boy, my sides are aching! Oh, my ribs hurt! Oh, man!
Also...
Andrew Lackey, a visiting professor of business and economics journalism at Boston University, said Apple's monopoly in the Mac business allows it to get away with things companies in a competitive market can't...."With Apple you're a captive, and to some extent they abuse that privilege," Lackey said. "I would have thought Apple would be all folksy, like a Ben & Jerry's kind of company. But in my experience, PC companies are much more responsive."
BMW has a monopoly in the BMW market. GM has a monopoly in the GM market. And yet, they both sell cars and compete against each other. I guess that's why this guy is only a visiting professor of economics.
Harrumph. Your reality check left out all the pre-20th Century Enterprises. :)
Most archetects don't use that much detail when designing a building
;)
Please tell me you're not an architect.
No, no, he must have been talking about archetects, which could be construed as 'model builders', if one takes arche- as in archetype and -tect, as in, well, architect.
Of course, I just might be overestimating his cleverness.
I'm puzzled why this was rated as ``off-topic''. Guess there wasn't enough anti-Microsoft content.
:)
He should have linked to this picture.
You're absolutely right! Can you even imagine some part of the government trying to think about decentralization? Ha! Their brains would probably explode! Stupid governments.
BFD.
;)
by DarkHelmet
Awww, you're just jealous since SpaceBalls 2 never got made.
Dark Helmet: What's the matter, Colonel Sandurz? CHICKEN???
I'm impressed you've managed to not read the books over the past, what, 60 years they've been available.
Besides, why not just filter out the Movies topic?
I think they already have a copy. The author, Dare Obasanjo, works for them.
Where is "Star Wars Galaxies: Hot Date"?
:)
It's scheduled for release right after 'The Hutts: Livin' Large' comes out.
daeley% ping www.mutt.org
;)
PING mutt.org (194.70.126.33): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 194.70.126.33: icmp_seq=0 ttl=233 time=163.774 ms
64 bytes from 194.70.126.33: icmp_seq=1 ttl=233 time=163.453 ms
64 bytes from 194.70.126.33: icmp_seq=2 ttl=233 time=165.473 ms
64 bytes from 194.70.126.33: icmp_seq=3 ttl=233 time=163.528 ms
64 bytes from 194.70.126.33: icmp_seq=4 ttl=233 time=164.787 ms
With the Slashdotting of the poor mutt.org server officially underway, I believe the phrase 'screwed the pooch' is applicable here.
A binary of mutt precompiled for Mac OS X is available here, but I want to see if mutt.org has anything newer.
Rocket Scientist: 'Operating System? Crap! I *knew* we forgot something!'
Using your logic, we should just teach people how to use calculators rather than arithmetic, much less Algebra.
Of course the timeworn complaint of 'when am I ever going to use this?' will shine forth. Thing is, you aren't just learning to use Algebra, you're learning a way to think. Sometimes the means is more important than the perceived end. Teaching someone *how* to organize their thoughts, to think logically, is at least as important, perhaps moreso, than what to think or what to do with their thoughts. Same thing goes on the humanities side.
Just build a swimming pool around your local McDonald's, then include a diving board, but no ladder to get out. Problem solved! :)
;)
Off-topic note: This is my 500th comment. I asked in my journal what I should do to mark my 500th comment, and somebody (can't imagine who) said I should say this: 'Not few enough to claim I have a life, and not enough to be super cool like gmhowell (who is currently typing number 2694).' So this message is dedicated to gmhowell, poster extraordinaire, to whose lofty heights (up to 2712 comments as of this writing) I can but dream to aspire.
Besides, he's got FortKnox beat by at least 400.
Shatner sci-fi show with cops, cooking, and Sandra Bullock? I'd watch! ;)
When you said on episode #18739 of Saturday Night Live: 'Get a life ... will ya, people? I mean, for cryin' out loud, it's just a TV show.', were you really reprising 'Evil Kirk' as Phil Hartman's (RIP) character suggested or did your motivation run deeper than that, say to 'Amok Time' when you had to battle Spock? ;)
More than anything, I would said it's a tradition issue. There is a long-standing Sunday-in-color, rest-of-the-week-B&W tradition in newspaper comics.
While IANACA (...not a comics artist), how complicated color is to add would depend on how they produce the color work initially: manually or digitally. Coloring by hand takes a lot of time. Using a paintbucket in an illustration program doesn't take much at all.
Same here, or at least brings more exposure to the quality comics out there. Witness PvP's announcement that their real-world books are going to be relaunched under the banner of Image Comics. Go Scott!
Online comics (and I don't mean web versions of print comics) have a long way to go before reaching the same 'credibility' with the non-online world as their traditional counterparts. People like Scott Kurtz are pushing the boundaries for what influence an online comic can have offline. It might take a generation or two of people getting more news online than off for digital comics to reach the same mindshare as, say, a Cathy or Doonesbury.
Slightly offtopic, I miss Bloom County and Calvin & Hobbes more every day I open the newspaper.
That reminds me of:
A red sign on the door of a physics professor: 'If this sign is blue, you're going too fast.'