If you ever need a deconstruction of Shakespearian plays, you can count on me.
It's OK, I've got this one.
"This play is a play written to appeal to as many people as possible in order to pay Shakespeare's bills and support his family. It was probably written over the course of a few weeks to months and thus we cannot assume that every word in it has the seventeen layers of intrigue and meaning that my professor told me they have. Furthermore, we probably cannot assume Shakespeare really did imbue it with every bizarre thread of subtextual meaning churned out over the intervening 400 years by countless thousands of English scholars and students desperate for a new slant for their book (required by tenure) or thesis (required to make the $100,000 education worthwhile)."
I'm sending this to my old English teacher. This is just the sort of point I was trying to get across to her all year. However, due to my age I fought back with my answer to an exam question involving three separate critics - A. C. Bradley, F. R. Leavis... and some other guy. The question was to write an interview involving all three, so I put them at their ages should they have all lived long enough to be in one room together. Bradley changed his mind and fell asleep (being over a hundred years old and very tired), leaving Leavis to complain that the remaining critic was just a young layman with silly new-age ideas.
On a side-note, English teachers seem to be rather humourless.
The United States is a large place. In square miles (or km), the vast majority of it is rural... far, far more, as a percentage, than any of Europe today except for a few very small exceptions.
After 13 months the on/off switch on my Magic Mouse is deteriorating to the point that I have to remove the battery cover to push the switch far enough to convince the mouse to turn on using a brand new set of batteries.
I went and got a logitech mouse and my gaming aim lag has shrunk by about a hundred miliseconds. It might not have fancy scrolling or anything, but it works with a longer advertised battery life and looks robust enough to last more than a year. I'd rather not lease my pointing equipment but own one that stays with me until the buttons fall off.
My problem is that there is no room for me what-so-ever in their calculations; I am not allowed to make my own decisions about what hardware I should use, or what I'm allowed to install.
First, they remove my ability to build my own machine, which is akin to giving me a most excellent christmas present that requires assembly, but not letting me put it together.
Of course the question must be asked - where were you when Macs were incredibly easy to open and upgrade parts. The entire box folded open like a piece of origami for access to vital parts, and then folded back for operation. No screws to undo, cables to unwind, just a few locking clips and unfold away.
If there were enough people who liked that in the '90s, then Apple wouldn't have had to change its way of doing things to become profitable again. Hence, the reason Apple doesn't care about you is that to them, you don't matter. The extra effort and spending just to entice you to buy one of their products is just not worth it. Or don't you like capitalism?
Apple used to say 'think different', but now they just go for the bulk majority market, and sorry but that just isn't you. It isn't really me either, but then again I managed to break the last easy-access motherboard I laid my hands on so currently I'm just looking for a computer that doesn't pretend to be accessible.
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Meanwhile, back on the point of the article, I never thought that 'wealthy, sophisticated, highly educated' people were particularly kind or altruistic to begin with. Maybe it's just that selfish elites can afford iPads while non-elites cannot.
But it takes a genius to think of combining these things
Not really, it just takes a shortage of bread and a lack of tastiness, or just simple laziness. I have mixed butter, jam, honey, peanut butter, Vegemite all on the one sandwich (with processed meat, lettuce, tomato, beetroot, cheese) simply because I wanted some of everything and figured it was all going to mix inside my stomach anyway. It tasted awesome.
How can following the path of least resistance be patentable? That's like patenting limping or falling out of bed.
On a Mac, Safari gets 120 and Chrome gets 142... Strange.
Although why any browser supports Geolocation worries me. Maybe it's just because Google makes Chrome.
I vote that someone makes a standards-only-compliant browser. No site-specific hacks, so that web designers can just test the page once in that, and if it works there, it should work in any standards-compliant browser.
I can trace this idea back to 19th January 2008. Can anyone beat that?
The poster removed the pic on a certain forum saying "Sorry guys, taken this down until I finish talking to the patent attorneys."
Thankfully I had already seen it and saved a copy of the image.
View his concept here: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=koh11&s=5
Whoa... they still make sub-2.0GHz processors? As for the card reader, I hear it's called a "Camera" and it usually comes with a USB cable.
17 inch screen... at that dpi? Give me HD movies (1080p) on a 1920*1200 (and still 17") screen anyday.
The stereo microphones however would be nice. Oh and fit in all your specs with my edits into one and a half inches, by fourteen inches, by ten inches.
P.S: Why do you have four external screens running at once? Adapters exist for a reason.
give me a print screen, home, pg up/dn, insert and delete keys already
Instead of Print Screen, Apple uses a trio of cmd-shift-3 for full-screen screencapture, cmd-shift-4 for a click-drag selection, and cmd-shift-4 and tap space to capture a single window. The Home, end, page up and down keys are accessible by pressing the function and arrow keys (why else do you think the arrow keys have "< home, page ^, page V, page >" written on them?). Forward delete is accessible by pressing fn-delete.
So are we talking Improved benchmarks on applications designed to run using the OS X frameworks, or are we talking a Windows Game in a Cider DirectX Wrapper?
I mean seriously, all Cider does is allow you to play Windows-programmed games on a Mac like in a VM. It doesn't actually let you play the game natively.
Of course we're angry. We have high standards and we won't let anyone fail to meet them, ESPECIALLY Apple.
Apple prides itself on selling people things that do what people want them to do. When something doesn't do what we expect, we get angry because we have been lied to. There is no excuse for low quality of products or of service.
Is that a 4-pin Firewire port (Video Camera only) or a 6-pin port (can use external Hard and CD/DVD/BD Drives)? If the 4 pin port, you essentially have a port that is useless to you if you don't have a DV camera. The old MacBooks had 6-pin Firewire, which was useful. E.g: a Firewire Hard Drive is much faster for Time Machine than a USB one.
AFAIK, if we're talking normal quality MPEG-2 video (720*576) I believe you would have around 8 gigabytes for 10 minutes (FW400 seems to transfer that in about 8 minutes, FW800 would thus do it in 4), and High Level MPEG-2 (1920*1152) could get up to 130GB, which would take up to 130 min on FW400 (or closer to 60 min on FW800). According to real world tests USB seems to be 2/3 the speed of FW400... so you're looking at 12 mins for SD video and 195Min for HD video. I'd take 8 mins and 130 mins any day over that (and 4 - 60 over that).
I thought technology was supposed to get faster and higher quality as time went on?
I bought a Mac not because I'm scared to death of opening computer cases (I built a computer from the ground up... and held it together with masking tape and cardboard) but because I don't want to have to open the case because I didn't get the best items when I bought the computer.
I recently found out that Intel still makes Dual-Core CPUs below 1.8GHz and that you can buy Graphics Cards with less than 128MB of VRAM. A notebook computer's hard drive less than 250GB that spins at 4200RPM (in fact I believe I saw an 80GB drive with that rpm). Why anyone would purchase a computer with those base components surprises me. Why anyone would sell one surprises me even more. I can see why people would want to upgrade such components, opening the case to do so.
When I got my latest MacBook Pro, I maximised all the specs I deemed necessary to maximise. I know that I will never change any component inside the case unless one breaks, for by the time the components are obsolete, there will be an entire new computer worth getting. In at least 4 years, maybe even 6.
The only problem I have had with my MBP is that I wore out the Optical Drive. Thankfully it was replaced without a fuss under warrantee. My only complaint would be that slimline drives are not suitable for constant burning (thankfully someone invented Firewire Burners).
I would hope that I could be deemed "Tech-Savvy" by your standards. But if not, at least try not to hold such a low regard of all Mac users.
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If you ever need a deconstruction of Shakespearian plays, you can count on me.
It's OK, I've got this one.
"This play is a play written to appeal to as many people as possible in order to pay Shakespeare's bills and support his family. It was probably written over the course of a few weeks to months and thus we cannot assume that every word in it has the seventeen layers of intrigue and meaning that my professor told me they have. Furthermore, we probably cannot assume Shakespeare really did imbue it with every bizarre thread of subtextual meaning churned out over the intervening 400 years by countless thousands of English scholars and students desperate for a new slant for their book (required by tenure) or thesis (required to make the $100,000 education worthwhile)."
I'm sending this to my old English teacher. This is just the sort of point I was trying to get across to her all year. However, due to my age I fought back with my answer to an exam question involving three separate critics - A. C. Bradley, F. R. Leavis... and some other guy. The question was to write an interview involving all three, so I put them at their ages should they have all lived long enough to be in one room together. Bradley changed his mind and fell asleep (being over a hundred years old and very tired), leaving Leavis to complain that the remaining critic was just a young layman with silly new-age ideas.
On a side-note, English teachers seem to be rather humourless.
This Dick's got the clap?
The United States is a large place. In square miles (or km), the vast majority of it is rural... far, far more, as a percentage, than any of Europe today except for a few very small exceptions.
It matters more where the people live - "It is a very urbanized population, with 82% residing in cities and suburbs as of 2008 (the worldwide urban rate is 50.5%). This leaves vast expanses of the country nearly uninhabited." - than where they can live. Just because a lot of USA citizens can live in the safety of the country, doesn't mean they do and get the life experience of that safety.
Uh, actually it's all the drivers for all supported printers from that manufacturer. A bundle of drivers, not one.
After 13 months the on/off switch on my Magic Mouse is deteriorating to the point that I have to remove the battery cover to push the switch far enough to convince the mouse to turn on using a brand new set of batteries.
I went and got a logitech mouse and my gaming aim lag has shrunk by about a hundred miliseconds. It might not have fancy scrolling or anything, but it works with a longer advertised battery life and looks robust enough to last more than a year. I'd rather not lease my pointing equipment but own one that stays with me until the buttons fall off.
My problem is that there is no room for me what-so-ever in their calculations; I am not allowed to make my own decisions about what hardware I should use, or what I'm allowed to install.
First, they remove my ability to build my own machine, which is akin to giving me a most excellent christmas present that requires assembly, but not letting me put it together.
Of course the question must be asked - where were you when Macs were incredibly easy to open and upgrade parts. The entire box folded open like a piece of origami for access to vital parts, and then folded back for operation. No screws to undo, cables to unwind, just a few locking clips and unfold away.
If there were enough people who liked that in the '90s, then Apple wouldn't have had to change its way of doing things to become profitable again. Hence, the reason Apple doesn't care about you is that to them, you don't matter. The extra effort and spending just to entice you to buy one of their products is just not worth it. Or don't you like capitalism?
Apple used to say 'think different', but now they just go for the bulk majority market, and sorry but that just isn't you. It isn't really me either, but then again I managed to break the last easy-access motherboard I laid my hands on so currently I'm just looking for a computer that doesn't pretend to be accessible.
~
Meanwhile, back on the point of the article, I never thought that 'wealthy, sophisticated, highly educated' people were particularly kind or altruistic to begin with. Maybe it's just that selfish elites can afford iPads while non-elites cannot.
But it takes a genius to think of combining these things
Not really, it just takes a shortage of bread and a lack of tastiness, or just simple laziness. I have mixed butter, jam, honey, peanut butter, Vegemite all on the one sandwich (with processed meat, lettuce, tomato, beetroot, cheese) simply because I wanted some of everything and figured it was all going to mix inside my stomach anyway. It tasted awesome.
How can following the path of least resistance be patentable? That's like patenting limping or falling out of bed.
On a Mac, Safari gets 120 and Chrome gets 142... Strange.
Although why any browser supports Geolocation worries me. Maybe it's just because Google makes Chrome.
I vote that someone makes a standards-only-compliant browser. No site-specific hacks, so that web designers can just test the page once in that, and if it works there, it should work in any standards-compliant browser.
I can trace this idea back to 19th January 2008. Can anyone beat that? The poster removed the pic on a certain forum saying "Sorry guys, taken this down until I finish talking to the patent attorneys." Thankfully I had already seen it and saved a copy of the image. View his concept here: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=koh11&s=5
17 inch screen... at that dpi? Give me HD movies (1080p) on a 1920*1200 (and still 17") screen anyday.
The stereo microphones however would be nice. Oh and fit in all your specs with my edits into one and a half inches, by fourteen inches, by ten inches.
P.S: Why do you have four external screens running at once? Adapters exist for a reason.
give me a print screen, home, pg up/dn, insert and delete keys already
Instead of Print Screen, Apple uses a trio of cmd-shift-3 for full-screen screencapture, cmd-shift-4 for a click-drag selection, and cmd-shift-4 and tap space to capture a single window. The Home, end, page up and down keys are accessible by pressing the function and arrow keys (why else do you think the arrow keys have "< home, page ^, page V, page >" written on them?). Forward delete is accessible by pressing fn-delete.
So are we talking Improved benchmarks on applications designed to run using the OS X frameworks, or are we talking a Windows Game in a Cider DirectX Wrapper?
I mean seriously, all Cider does is allow you to play Windows-programmed games on a Mac like in a VM. It doesn't actually let you play the game natively.
Of course we're angry. We have high standards and we won't let anyone fail to meet them, ESPECIALLY Apple.
Apple prides itself on selling people things that do what people want them to do. When something doesn't do what we expect, we get angry because we have been lied to. There is no excuse for low quality of products or of service.
Is that a 4-pin Firewire port (Video Camera only) or a 6-pin port (can use external Hard and CD/DVD/BD Drives)? If the 4 pin port, you essentially have a port that is useless to you if you don't have a DV camera. The old MacBooks had 6-pin Firewire, which was useful. E.g: a Firewire Hard Drive is much faster for Time Machine than a USB one.
AFAIK, if we're talking normal quality MPEG-2 video (720*576) I believe you would have around 8 gigabytes for 10 minutes (FW400 seems to transfer that in about 8 minutes, FW800 would thus do it in 4), and High Level MPEG-2 (1920*1152) could get up to 130GB, which would take up to 130 min on FW400 (or closer to 60 min on FW800).
According to real world tests USB seems to be 2/3 the speed of FW400... so you're looking at 12 mins for SD video and 195Min for HD video. I'd take 8 mins and 130 mins any day over that (and 4 - 60 over that).
I thought technology was supposed to get faster and higher quality as time went on?
I bought a Mac not because I'm scared to death of opening computer cases (I built a computer from the ground up... and held it together with masking tape and cardboard) but because I don't want to have to open the case because I didn't get the best items when I bought the computer.
I recently found out that Intel still makes Dual-Core CPUs below 1.8GHz and that you can buy Graphics Cards with less than 128MB of VRAM. A notebook computer's hard drive less than 250GB that spins at 4200RPM (in fact I believe I saw an 80GB drive with that rpm). Why anyone would purchase a computer with those base components surprises me. Why anyone would sell one surprises me even more. I can see why people would want to upgrade such components, opening the case to do so.
When I got my latest MacBook Pro, I maximised all the specs I deemed necessary to maximise. I know that I will never change any component inside the case unless one breaks, for by the time the components are obsolete, there will be an entire new computer worth getting. In at least 4 years, maybe even 6.
The only problem I have had with my MBP is that I wore out the Optical Drive. Thankfully it was replaced without a fuss under warrantee. My only complaint would be that slimline drives are not suitable for constant burning (thankfully someone invented Firewire Burners).
I would hope that I could be deemed "Tech-Savvy" by your standards. But if not, at least try not to hold such a low regard of all Mac users.