I never said her story was in question, just the circumstances under which she came to tell it.
To me, there's a difference between having your PC sob story selected from other submissions (like Apple implies) and being picked because you happen to be hanging out with the director's son at the right time.
It's kind of a funny story. I'm friends with the son of the director, Errol Morris. I'm friends with his son Hamilton. I went with him after school, him and two of my friends. We didn't think we were going to make ads; we were just going to get the free set food. So we go there, and they're like, "We need a couple more people, so I guess the three of you can make ads." So we all made ads, and me and Hamilton's got picked. I had no idea I was going to do it until I got there.
My Dad has a PC that my sister and I used to use for our homework assignments. One night, I was writing a paper on it, when all of a sudden it went berserk, the screen started flashing, and the whole paper just disappeared. All of it. And it was a good paper! I had to cram and rewrite it really quickly. Needless to say, my rushed paper wasn't nearly as good, and I blame that PC for the grade I got.
I'm happy to report that my sister and I now share an Apple PowerBook. It's a lot nicer to work on than my dad's PC was, it hasn't let me down once, and my grades have all been really good.
Thanks, Apple.
Ellen Feiss
So which was it - an email to Apple, or a hookup with the director's son?
One of the requirements was the ability to search for recipes. Internet's always an option, but is there anything similar to Meal Master out there for Linux? I searched around Freshmeat, Sourceforge, Google, and the Debian package database, and most of what's available are PHP/SQL web-based solutions. I'm setting up a 486 laptop for my wife to enter recipes, and I was hoping for a console-based app instead of having to run Apache, SQL, and all that. Any suggestions?
I enjoy Junkyard Wars because it places a strong emphasis on the creation of the machines used in the final challenge. One could conceivably LEARN something from watching the show. Full Metal Challenge, which focuses primarily the contests themselves, is decidedly lacking in that respect. My question is, given the tractor-pull premise of FMC, why is it on The Learning Channel? Did any other network want a shot at it?
I found KDE trying to tell me that the Irish currency was the pound, something which hasn't been the case since the Euro was introduced in 2000, two and a half years ago.
Man, this guy REALLY doesn't know much about Debian, does he? The Euro hasn't even made it into unstable yet!
Everyone's covered most of your gripes, except for the problem viewing MS bug reports. If you're referring to the overlapped text thing in the MSKB articles, add the following to your userContent.css:.KBPUBV1 LI,.KBPUBV1 OL LI,.KBPUBV1 UL LI,.KBPUBV1 UL UL,.KBPUBV1 UL UL LI,.KBPUBV1.appliesto,.KBPUBV1.appliesto UL,.KBPUBV1.appliesto UL UL,.KBPUBV1.appliesto UL LI,.KBPUBV1.postappliesto,.KBPUBV1.postappliesto UL,.KBPUBV1.postappliesto UL UL,.KBPUBV1.postappliesto UL LI {
margin: 5px !important; }
I hope this technology makes it over to weblog sites like Blogger and Xanga. Both of those sites have excellent tools for IE, but the Mozilla versions of the same tools completely blow goats.
Of course, there are always XUL-based alternatives like mozBlog and LiveLizard, or the very excellent Composite. Composite's great - it gives you a WYSIWYG editor for any <TEXTAREA> that Mozilla encounters... using it to make this comment:-)
You don't have to listen to your wireless MP3's on a Newton with a dim, old, scratched-up screen - a pal of mine has put together a display upgrade kit and is currently taking orders!
Couldn't you simply run Evo or whatever client in the X server WITHOUT running a window manager or desktop environment? Just pass it some window geometry and let it take up the entire X server display?
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I never said her story was in question, just the circumstances under which she came to tell it.
:-)
To me, there's a difference between having your PC sob story selected from other submissions (like Apple implies) and being picked because you happen to be hanging out with the director's son at the right time.
No big deal, it's just another ad.
According to Ellen in the interview:
It's kind of a funny story. I'm friends with the son of the director, Errol Morris. I'm friends with his son Hamilton. I went with him after school, him and two of my friends. We didn't think we were going to make ads; we were just going to get the free set food. So we go there, and they're like, "We need a couple more people, so I guess the three of you can make ads." So we all made ads, and me and Hamilton's got picked. I had no idea I was going to do it until I got there.
According to Ellen at Apple's site:
I'm writing to share a tragic little story.
My Dad has a PC that my sister and I used to use for our homework assignments. One night, I was writing a paper on it, when all of a sudden it went berserk, the screen started flashing, and the whole paper just disappeared. All of it. And it was a good paper! I had to cram and rewrite it really quickly. Needless to say, my rushed paper wasn't nearly as good, and I blame that PC for the grade I got.
I'm happy to report that my sister and I now share an Apple PowerBook. It's a lot nicer to work on than my dad's PC was, it hasn't let me down once, and my grades have all been really good.
Thanks, Apple.
Ellen Feiss
So which was it - an email to Apple, or a hookup with the director's son?
I still haven't found a VB equivilant for another OS.
Stay tuned!
Looking at the extensive feature list of BBEdit, it's kinda ironic that it's produced by Bare Bones Software...
"Dude, you're losing a sell!"
Phoenix: Not sufficiently faster to make up for the fact that I can't search google straight out of the address bar.
But you can! Quick Search bookmarks let you search any site you want from the address bar.
One of the requirements was the ability to search for recipes. Internet's always an option, but is there anything similar to Meal Master out there for Linux? I searched around Freshmeat, Sourceforge, Google, and the Debian package database, and most of what's available are PHP/SQL web-based solutions. I'm setting up a 486 laptop for my wife to enter recipes, and I was hoping for a console-based app instead of having to run Apache, SQL, and all that. Any suggestions?
You can say THAT again!
I enjoy Junkyard Wars because it places a strong emphasis on the creation of the machines used in the final challenge. One could conceivably LEARN something from watching the show. Full Metal Challenge, which focuses primarily the contests themselves, is decidedly lacking in that respect. My question is, given the tractor-pull premise of FMC, why is it on The Learning Channel? Did any other network want a shot at it?
Is it just me, or does "SearchKing" sound like Popeye attempting to say "searching"?
I found KDE trying to tell me that the Irish currency was the pound, something which hasn't been the case since the Euro was introduced in 2000, two and a half years ago .
Man, this guy REALLY doesn't know much about Debian, does he? The Euro hasn't even made it into unstable yet!
mozdev has it for free
.... it's a space station!
What, no screenshots??
dammit.. sorry..
Everyone's covered most of your gripes, except for the problem viewing MS bug reports. If you're referring to the overlapped text thing in the MSKB articles, add the following to your userContent.css: .KBPUBV1 LI, .KBPUBV1 OL LI, .KBPUBV1 UL LI, .KBPUBV1 UL UL, .KBPUBV1 UL UL LI, .KBPUBV1 .appliesto, .KBPUBV1 .appliesto UL, .KBPUBV1 .appliesto UL UL, .KBPUBV1 .appliesto UL LI, .KBPUBV1 .postappliesto, .KBPUBV1 .postappliesto UL, .KBPUBV1 .postappliesto UL UL, .KBPUBV1 .postappliesto UL LI {
margin: 5px !important;
}
works for me
That's amazing! I just hope they don't go out and eat all of us merry non-believers.
I hope this technology makes it over to weblog sites like Blogger and Xanga. Both of those sites have excellent tools for IE, but the Mozilla versions of the same tools completely blow goats.
Of course, there are always XUL-based alternatives like mozBlog and LiveLizard, or the very excellent Composite. Composite's great - it gives you a WYSIWYG editor for any <TEXTAREA> that Mozilla encounters... using it to make this comment :-)
mozblog's FTP support is there to facilitate image uploading.
his email address is on his page... I don't know jack about any of it :-)
You don't have to listen to your wireless MP3's on a Newton with a dim, old, scratched-up screen - a pal of mine has put together a display upgrade kit and is currently taking orders!
(sorry buddy!)
... but not nearly as good as Orbit.... the m version has smaller buttons and whatnot to keep your toolbars nice and small...
are those fake files worth the gain of having a major isp on "our" side?
Hmmmm...
"files with popular song titles derived from the Billboard Top 100"
THOSE fake files? What's the problem? It's mostly fake music anyway.
... on second thought, I'm thinking that might fuck up the dialogs and stuff... so why not just a minimal window manager, with no desktop stuff?
Couldn't you simply run Evo or whatever client in the X server WITHOUT running a window manager or desktop environment? Just pass it some window geometry and let it take up the entire X server display?