The "click-wheel" is essentially the wheel from previous designs of the iPod, with little clicky buttons at the 12, 3, 6, and 9 o'clock positions. So, make the dialing motion for the wheel controls, press down for the buttons. I've never used one, but the people I've met who have tried both say they like the click-wheel better, which would explain the switch.
Leahy has been relentless in his attacks. Recently, he blamed the intelligence failures on President Bush while the senate committed determined in a bipartisan manner that the failures had nothing to do with the president, and everything to do with practices at the CIA.
Not precisely. In fact, "The very structure of the investigation... necessarily pushed any discussion of the administration's responsibility for or role in the debacle back until after the November election."
It is rumored that Sen. Leahy said something to Cheney before Cheney's outburst.
Hundreds of millions of people do use Windows, and they all get to choose. Whether or not they know it's possible. Really, I think the only thing for Microsoft to do that would make alternative browser makers happy would be to advertise alternative browsers.
On the other hand - we once had a secretary working for us who wasn't really altogether clued in to the intracacies of browser technology. When she complained that her computer was acting slowly, I discovered that she had several copies of both IE and Netscape open. When I asked her why, she said that the the link on her desktop that opened our internal web site opened Netscape. "I just use Internet Explorer when I want to look at the Internet." When I suggested that she try using only one browser, she had no idea what I meant.
The "private browsing" mode dialog box in the Safari preview is certainly well intentioned, but isn't sufficiently clear about its purpose. I suggest the following rewrite.
When private browsing is turned on, webpages are not added to the history, items are automatically removed from the Downloads window, information isn't saved for AutoFill (including names and passwords), and no one will know that you went looking for "bukakke" [sic] on Google. But we're not cleaning up those skanky-ass tissues for you, so pick up after your damn self, okay? Perv.
1. If 200,000 Slashdot geeks click a link to a website in a span of five minutes, to request a 1 meg PDF file from over your crappy T1, what will the average ratio of geek to T1 channels be over a minute? Assume a standard 24 channels per T1, and that the Slashdot audience will rabidly click and re-click the link until a successful connection is made.
Wow - you accuse me of spreading FUD, then condede that "service packs and some patches" require reboots exactly two sentences later. How can you handle that kind of cognitive dissonance without your head exploding?
The important bit here, though, is that I'm not knocking Microsoft for this. Remember? It's not like Linux kernel patches don't require reboots either.
Most likely they think they retain some type of advantage by restricting the most efficient version of the player. However, Macromedia's player isn't the only one available. Apple's Quicktime has had the ability to play back Flash since version 4.
A snippet from the press release: "Because the Flash format is vector-based, Flash content is bandwidth efficient and scales automatically to display as designed in any Web browser. The Flash file format (.swf) is an open standard: any software vendor can output Flash files by writing to the specification published on Macromedia's Web site at www.flash.com/open."
(note - if you want the spec, you should really be here instead. But again, when you download it, you agree not to transmit the spec to anyone else, and there's a rule in the license which basically amounts to "the player you design should actually work before you release it.")
I have a coworker who used to do phone support for people who really had no business doing router maintenance, but were stuck with the job anyway. Invariably, these people were highly defensive about their level of competence, and suggesting that they check the obvious - "Did you check to see that it's plugged in?" - met with an angry response. "Of course I did!"
So, coworker came up with a novel idea. Instead of asking them if the router was plugged in, he'd ask, "Can you unplug the power cord, and plug it back in upside down? Those cords are defective, sometimes you need to flip them."
Every once in a while, the guy at the other end would stutter nervously for a moment, then say, "Hey, that worked! Thanks!" Of course, the plugs in question were three-pronged, so there was no way they could have been plugged in "upside down," but they were grateful for the opportunity to save a little face.
Shortly before the beginning of the OJ trial, I had a brief conversation with a co-worker who asked me what I thought had happened. "I think he killed them," I said, with a shrug. Then, I made the mistake of asking a follow-up. "Why, what do you think?"
"I think," she said, her face deadly earnest, "that his son did it. And that he can't tell the truth because he doesn't want him to be implicated."
Some people believe riduclous things because it just seems more fun than going with the more likely prospects.
([the technique] was used on Gollum in Lord of the Rings, and it will be used in the soon-to-be-released van Helsing movie)... Of course there are endless other opportunities for virtual humans with perfect skin:-)
I don't think "perfect skin" means what you think it means. Unless you think Smeagol has a lovely complexion.
I don't know when that feature was introduced. I can say that I have a 30 gig iPod that behaves that way, and they were announced almost exactly a year ago.
...unfortunately, I'm not sure it was all positive. I'm quite certain that one of the hospital scenes in MP2 was the first time I thought to myself, "Enough of the fucking back story already. I want to play!"
The Max Payne team, and Sam Lake in particular, should be commended for bringing a level of depth to the story that most games in the genre have never even attempted. But there are a lot of people who believe that all that great story came at the price of disrupting the balance between exposition and gameplay. Plus, there are plenty of people who thought that the story just sucked.
I know that I, for one, am excited about this "Gay Nigger Association" technology referred to in the wiki entry. We need more innovation of this type in the free software arena.
Additionally, I'd like to point out that LOL JEWS!
On an iPod, while browsing songs, clicking the center button selects a song and starts playing it. Holding the center button instead adds it to your "On The Go" playlist.
I'm somewhat alarmed by the fact that no anti-virus software was mentioned anywhere in that list. Or personal firewall software, for that matter (although the firewall in XP is probably sufficient. Assuming you remembered to turn it on.)
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If you remember your times long past playing D&D fondly - heck, if you're still playing it - you really owe it to yourself to check out some independent roleplaying game producers. They're cheap, they're great, they're a break from THAC0 and saving throws and god only knows what else. A great place to start is with The Forge, which specializes in such games.
And while you're their, a shout out please for Lumpley, an old friend of mine, and the author of kill puppies for satan: an unfunny roleplaying game. (I'd link directly to his site, but I doubt it could take the slashdotting. Still, I must advise folks to look him up. And send him money.)
Mostly because of the stability of the code, combined with the uniformity of the interface. And to be clear, I'm hardly a Mac die-hard: I started my computer career on a Commodore Vic-20, moved to a C64, then used some variant of IBM knockoffs running various versions of windows up through XP Pro, before buying my first Mac a year ago.
And yes, it's easier to use. Took a bit of getting used to and the installation of LaunchBar, but I'd say it's the easiest to use machine I've ever had.
Full-featured.Mac Mail includes web access, auto-reply, and IMAP and POP support, plus tons of storage and no annoying ads.
(I assume they didn't just add this.)
It's been suggested that gmail is likely to put a big hurt on the.Mac service. Honestly, I'm not sure I buy it:.mac does offer more than just mail, so I'm not sure that gmail really brings that much more to the table that other third parties weren't already offering. Not that I'm a.mac subscriber, so maybe I'm a bad person to respond.
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The "click-wheel" is essentially the wheel from previous designs of the iPod, with little clicky buttons at the 12, 3, 6, and 9 o'clock positions. So, make the dialing motion for the wheel controls, press down for the buttons. I've never used one, but the people I've met who have tried both say they like the click-wheel better, which would explain the switch.
Not precisely. In fact, "The very structure of the investigation... necessarily pushed any discussion of the administration's responsibility for or role in the debacle back until after the November election."
True. According to The Washington Times, the conversaiton went something like this:
Cheney: "Hey, Leahy. How about you lay off accusing me of impropriety with the Halliburton contracts?"
Leahy: "Hey, I've got an idea. How about you stop calling me a bad Catholic?"
Cheney: "Go fuck yourself."
Wow. I can certainly see how Cheney would be unable to contain his righteous anger after such an exchange.
Hundreds of millions of people do use Windows, and they all get to choose. Whether or not they know it's possible. Really, I think the only thing for Microsoft to do that would make alternative browser makers happy would be to advertise alternative browsers.
On the other hand - we once had a secretary working for us who wasn't really altogether clued in to the intracacies of browser technology. When she complained that her computer was acting slowly, I discovered that she had several copies of both IE and Netscape open. When I asked her why, she said that the the link on her desktop that opened our internal web site opened Netscape. "I just use Internet Explorer when I want to look at the Internet." When I suggested that she try using only one browser, she had no idea what I meant.
Believe me, Apple is running that joke into the ground (note the picture).
For the love of Cthulu, people, "architect" is a noun, not a verb.
With that said: yowch. If Zdziarski's criticisms are accurate, Cormack got some esplainin' to do.
Bruce Willis could likely pull a role like that off, but please - The Fifth Element?
"Of all the members of your unit, you were the most highly decorated... Of all the members of your unit, you're the only one left alive."
Hardly a statement you'd make to Joe Everyguy.
Wow - you accuse me of spreading FUD, then condede that "service packs and some patches" require reboots exactly two sentences later. How can you handle that kind of cognitive dissonance without your head exploding?
The important bit here, though, is that I'm not knocking Microsoft for this. Remember? It's not like Linux kernel patches don't require reboots either.
And not, say, for the purpose of applying security patches?
Not that I'm knocking Microsoft for XP needing a reboot after a patch. I just get worried every time I hear someone say that they hardly ever reboot.
Most likely they think they retain some type of advantage by restricting the most efficient version of the player. However, Macromedia's player isn't the only one available. Apple's Quicktime has had the ability to play back Flash since version 4.
A snippet from the press release: "Because the Flash format is vector-based, Flash content is bandwidth efficient and scales automatically to display as designed in any Web browser. The Flash file format (.swf) is an open standard: any software vendor can output Flash files by writing to the specification published on Macromedia's Web site at www.flash.com/open."
(note - if you want the spec, you should really be here instead. But again, when you download it, you agree not to transmit the spec to anyone else, and there's a rule in the license which basically amounts to "the player you design should actually work before you release it.")
I have a coworker who used to do phone support for people who really had no business doing router maintenance, but were stuck with the job anyway. Invariably, these people were highly defensive about their level of competence, and suggesting that they check the obvious - "Did you check to see that it's plugged in?" - met with an angry response. "Of course I did!"
So, coworker came up with a novel idea. Instead of asking them if the router was plugged in, he'd ask, "Can you unplug the power cord, and plug it back in upside down? Those cords are defective, sometimes you need to flip them."
Every once in a while, the guy at the other end would stutter nervously for a moment, then say, "Hey, that worked! Thanks!" Of course, the plugs in question were three-pronged, so there was no way they could have been plugged in "upside down," but they were grateful for the opportunity to save a little face.
That's usually referred to as "regenerative braking." A bunch of hybrid vehicles have this feature, including the Prius.
According to Netcraft, www.adti.net is running FreeBSD.
Why, oh why, does the Alex de Tocqueville institution hate freedom so?
Shortly before the beginning of the OJ trial, I had a brief conversation with a co-worker who asked me what I thought had happened. "I think he killed them," I said, with a shrug. Then, I made the mistake of asking a follow-up. "Why, what do you think?"
"I think," she said, her face deadly earnest, "that his son did it. And that he can't tell the truth because he doesn't want him to be implicated."
Some people believe riduclous things because it just seems more fun than going with the more likely prospects.
I don't think "perfect skin" means what you think it means. Unless you think Smeagol has a lovely complexion.
By the way: ew.
I don't know when that feature was introduced. I can say that I have a 30 gig iPod that behaves that way, and they were announced almost exactly a year ago.
...unfortunately, I'm not sure it was all positive. I'm quite certain that one of the hospital scenes in MP2 was the first time I thought to myself, "Enough of the fucking back story already. I want to play!"
The Max Payne team, and Sam Lake in particular, should be commended for bringing a level of depth to the story that most games in the genre have never even attempted. But there are a lot of people who believe that all that great story came at the price of disrupting the balance between exposition and gameplay. Plus, there are plenty of people who thought that the story just sucked.
On a side note: anyone else notice the resemblance between Max Payne story author Sam Lake, and Mr. Needs a Maalox himself?
I know that I, for one, am excited about this "Gay Nigger Association" technology referred to in the wiki entry. We need more innovation of this type in the free software arena.
Additionally, I'd like to point out that LOL JEWS!
Mmm. Robocones.
Makes me want to stop by a Baskin Robots. (11111 flavors!)
On an iPod, while browsing songs, clicking the center button selects a song and starts playing it. Holding the center button instead adds it to your "On The Go" playlist.
"Trillian, Winrar, Firefox, Winamp, SmartFTP, Azureus, NMap, GKrellM, PowerDVD."
I'm somewhat alarmed by the fact that no anti-virus software was mentioned anywhere in that list. Or personal firewall software, for that matter (although the firewall in XP is probably sufficient. Assuming you remembered to turn it on.)
If you remember your times long past playing D&D fondly - heck, if you're still playing it - you really owe it to yourself to check out some independent roleplaying game producers. They're cheap, they're great, they're a break from THAC0 and saving throws and god only knows what else. A great place to start is with The Forge, which specializes in such games.
And while you're their, a shout out please for Lumpley, an old friend of mine, and the author of kill puppies for satan: an unfunny roleplaying game. (I'd link directly to his site, but I doubt it could take the slashdotting. Still, I must advise folks to look him up. And send him money.)
Mostly because of the stability of the code, combined with the uniformity of the interface. And to be clear, I'm hardly a Mac die-hard: I started my computer career on a Commodore Vic-20, moved to a C64, then used some variant of IBM knockoffs running various versions of windows up through XP Pro, before buying my first Mac a year ago.
And yes, it's easier to use. Took a bit of getting used to and the installation of LaunchBar, but I'd say it's the easiest to use machine I've ever had.
(I assume they didn't just add this.)
It's been suggested that gmail is likely to put a big hurt on the