Look no further than 2002's Minority Reportwhen Tom Cruise was using the giant wall thing with the gloves. There was even some pinch/zoom stuff happening.
Well, Firefox can't always take the lead. But Safari had private browsing years ago.:-)
Wikipedia: "Version 2.0 of Safari was released on April 29, 2005... includes a built-in RSS and Atom reader. Other features include Private Browsing..."
I'll be sure to tell that to a friend of mine who was making somewhere north of $40k for the last several years (not rich, but he was doing OK) and is currently working part-time in the dorm cafeteria at a local university. He'll have a lot more free time to shop, too, once he's done filling out all his foreclosure paperwork. No, I'm not kidding or making up this example to prove a point. I wish I was.
Yeah, because I'm sure no one at nearby 911 centers, police stations, fire stations, and hospitals will be watching the ceremony. Not to mention every government agency will have multiple feeds and private lines of communication. If anything goes wrong tomorrow, I'm sure people that need to know will know pretty quickly.
No sense mentioning used Tablet PCs on eBay. I'm no MS fanboy, but XP Tablet PC Edition does pretty much whatever you'd want a tablet to do, has been around for years, is as stable as any other XP, runs all Windows apps, etc etc etc.
... whenever I stumble across an old screenshot of Netscape Navigator and next to the URL it says "Netsite" instead of "Location" indicating that the page was being served by a Netscape server.
Steve Jobs takes medical leave. His old NEXT workstation is pulled out of mothballs* and goes on-line January 15, 2009. Human decisions are removed from strategic marketing. It begins to learn at a geometric rate and becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug...
* True (AFAIK) story: When Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, he use a NeXT workstation until OS X came out.
I don't care who Google stole the icon from. I'm concerned with how much carbon Google is using transmitting that favico! (Historical context for future viewers, or for humor-impaired mods from the present: there is currently one story between that story and this one on the slashdot main page.)
You know how old BTTF is? We're almost there--it's 2009, and the future in the movie was 2015. Just six more years... too bad Universal Orlando just closed the ride. (And replaced it with The Simpsons, which is coming into its 20th year. MAN it's scary how fast time goes by as you get older! Remember when The Simpsons was new and edgy?)
... would be to just ship it cut into a thousand FAT16 partitions.
Speaking of which, I've never bothered to try... what happens when you try to mount more than 26 (A:-Z:) drives in Windows? Was there a point where it was just impossible--2K, 98, 95? I'd try it right now but I don't have a copy of Windows handy.
That remains to be seen. Thus far what we have are promises, nothing more. If we should reserve judgment on the potential for disappointment, then we should refrain from claiming success as well.
Reserving judgement. What a great idea. Tell that to the people who started NOBAMA IN 12--how 'bout we let him at least be INAUGURATED before assuming that we don't want him running things?
You know, there's more to life than how many songs you can share and is it OK to get sued for pira^H^H^H^Hcopyright infringement and what if you did break the law but the other side is REALLY being an asshole about it etc etc etc. If he can end the fucking war (the ACTUAL one, with bullets and dead bodies on both sides and whatnot) I'll be happy. If we manage not to slip into a depression I'll be fucking ECSTATIC. THOSE are the reasons I voted for Obama.
Funny how that number keeps creeping upwards. First it was 24 FPS (because that was all the eye could see), then 30, then 60, now you're saying 80.
Part of the reason for this is blur. 24fps of naturally-shot film looks real because each frame is a little blurry wherever there's fast motion so the illusion is complete. 24fps of artificially-generated static images is NOT convincing. (Compare the old Ray Harryhausen-style stop-motion films to modern go-motion work.) So you either need a lot more fps or the game needs to blur the image for you.
So when people started making games, they figured 24/30 fps was enough because that worked for film and video, not realizing there were other differences. Then the numbers started climbing.
First of all, no company will last forever. But for quite a while, Apple will be fine, even if Steve Jobs were to disappear tomorrow. EVERY SINGLE EMPLOYEE at Apple has seen what Jobs has done in the last ten years. Apple's success DOES NOT come from chasing the largest market. No more nine-million Performa models being sold at Sears. No more clones. No more trying to dominate the market, Windows-style.** Apple's amazing success in the last decade* has come from making products that start by being pretty easy to use and doing a few things well, then adding features that people actually want down the road. Are they all things for all people? NO. But they're DAMN GOOD for a WHOLE LOT of the market.
And they're not even doing that much innovation (relatively speaking) right now. What are their recent successes? Laptops. A music player. A cell phone. But what they do, and do well, is DESIGN THESE THINGS WELL. Laptops that are thin and smooth without latches to break. A portable music player that's ACTUALLY EASY TO USE. A quasi-smartphone that humans can use. Does a BlackBerry have more features? Maybe. Can the average person on the street use one without a good amount of training? NO. Compared to the iPhone, does the BlackBerry web browser suck out loud? YES. Which would you rather have: a phone with 100 features, all of which require digging through menus and clicking tiny buttons, or a phone with 50 features, but 50 features that are all designed well and you can use every one of them? You can learn 90% of what you need to know about the iPhone just by watching a 5-minute video. THAT'S what Apple does. That's what they've been doing well for the last 10 years. Jony Ive knows it. Phil Schiller knows it. Either one of them could keep Apple afloat simply by following the course that Steve Jobs has charted, for several years at least.
* note: they're not perfect. Look at the G4 Cube, or the puck mouse. But they hit a LOT more than they miss.
** and even the markets that they dominate, they STILL do it well. I went shopping with a friend for a cell phone and I couldn't BELIEVE the bewildering array of crappy phones, each one just slightly different from the next. It reminded me of Dell's and HP's laptop lines. A million different models, each one with pluses and minuses but no real compelling differences. Apple sold over ten million phones in a year and a half and it's basically just ONE MODEL! There was the first gen: 4 GB or 8 GB, done. All were silver. That's it. Then they quit making the 4GB model! Then they dropped that version and introduced a new one, now with GPS, faster networking, and a slightly different body shape. Otherwise identical. ONE model, again available in two sizes. Oh yeah, and it now comes in black or white. THAT'S IT. The iPod line is pretty diverse but once you get past the colors and capacities it really comes down to just a few models: tiny with no screen, small with a screen, medium with a screen and high capacity; and widescreen/touch model, medium capacity. So that's still really just 4 models.
"Sex Offender" != "Child Molester" (!= "Pedophile" for that matter, not that it's relevant)
You can get tagged as the former for getting caught urinating in public in some places.
And even so, SO WHAT it if was a "real" sexual offense? Why are we so hung up on sex offenders in the first place? What about MURDERERS?!? (Or "life offenders" as I call them.) What about violent criminals in general? Plenty of them are walking the streets with NONE of the restrictions that convicted sex offenders face.
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The idea that consumers would specially pick out Microsoft for criticism, when basically everyone does it, is laughable.
No, the reason we pick on MS is because they do it to such a ridiculous extent. SIX EDITIONS?!?
Fun info about variable pricing here.
Look no further than 2002's Minority Reportwhen Tom Cruise was using the giant wall thing with the gloves. There was even some pinch/zoom stuff happening.
Well, Firefox can't always take the lead. But Safari had private browsing years ago. :-)
Wikipedia: "Version 2.0 of Safari was released on April 29, 2005... includes a built-in RSS and Atom reader. Other features include Private Browsing..."
Funny. They even have a link to 'porn mode' which has a handy table showing which browsers had it when. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porn_mode
I have two basket balls, one has a cat inside - I don't know which one.
The heavier one. Duh. :-)
That site is just as bad in Chrome, last time I checked.
Super? Just "super"? Firefox has an AWESOME bar! SUCK IT, REDMOND!!!!!11
... it looks like Ted Stevens' (widely-theorized) strategy of "Hurry up and get convicted before Bush leaves, then hope for a pardon" didn't pan out.
I'll be sure to tell that to a friend of mine who was making somewhere north of $40k for the last several years (not rich, but he was doing OK) and is currently working part-time in the dorm cafeteria at a local university. He'll have a lot more free time to shop, too, once he's done filling out all his foreclosure paperwork. No, I'm not kidding or making up this example to prove a point. I wish I was.
A pedant? On Slashdot? How did he make it through the rigorous screening process and obtain an account?
Yeah, because I'm sure no one at nearby 911 centers, police stations, fire stations, and hospitals will be watching the ceremony. Not to mention every government agency will have multiple feeds and private lines of communication. If anything goes wrong tomorrow, I'm sure people that need to know will know pretty quickly.
$299? You are now competing with full laptops.
No sense mentioning used Tablet PCs on eBay. I'm no MS fanboy, but XP Tablet PC Edition does pretty much whatever you'd want a tablet to do, has been around for years, is as stable as any other XP, runs all Windows apps, etc etc etc.
... whenever I stumble across an old screenshot of Netscape Navigator and next to the URL it says "Netsite" instead of "Location" indicating that the page was being served by a Netscape server.
Steve Jobs takes medical leave. His old NEXT workstation is pulled out of mothballs* and goes on-line January 15, 2009. Human decisions are removed from strategic marketing. It begins to learn at a geometric rate and becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug...
* True (AFAIK) story: When Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, he use a NeXT workstation until OS X came out.
You can also encode images into base64, don't know how big an image it would take before you hit the 1MB limit, but it's possible.
Reminds me of one of my favorite old geeky jokes:
Newbie: How do I open this attachment?
Admin: You uudecode it.
Newbie: I I I decode it?
I don't care who Google stole the icon from. I'm concerned with how much carbon Google is using transmitting that favico! (Historical context for future viewers, or for humor-impaired mods from the present: there is currently one story between that story and this one on the slashdot main page.)
Limerick writing
Really depends on meter
Just stick with haiku
Seen nablag orggash, neeble whorp flarq.
My mother's a SAINT!
You know how old BTTF is? We're almost there--it's 2009, and the future in the movie was 2015. Just six more years... too bad Universal Orlando just closed the ride. (And replaced it with The Simpsons, which is coming into its 20th year. MAN it's scary how fast time goes by as you get older! Remember when The Simpsons was new and edgy?)
... would be to just ship it cut into a thousand FAT16 partitions.
Speaking of which, I've never bothered to try... what happens when you try to mount more than 26 (A:-Z:) drives in Windows? Was there a point where it was just impossible--2K, 98, 95? I'd try it right now but I don't have a copy of Windows handy.
That remains to be seen. Thus far what we have are promises, nothing more. If we should reserve judgment on the potential for disappointment, then we should refrain from claiming success as well.
Reserving judgement. What a great idea. Tell that to the people who started NOBAMA IN 12--how 'bout we let him at least be INAUGURATED before assuming that we don't want him running things?
You know, there's more to life than how many songs you can share and is it OK to get sued for pira^H^H^H^Hcopyright infringement and what if you did break the law but the other side is REALLY being an asshole about it etc etc etc. If he can end the fucking war (the ACTUAL one, with bullets and dead bodies on both sides and whatnot) I'll be happy. If we manage not to slip into a depression I'll be fucking ECSTATIC. THOSE are the reasons I voted for Obama.
I like the NRA, too, but not enough to listen to them when they said I should vote for McCain. I believe America's copyright laws are royally fucked and have ben corrupted to serve the exact OPPOSITE function the framers intended but come on, first things first.
Funny how that number keeps creeping upwards. First it was 24 FPS (because that was all the eye could see), then 30, then 60, now you're saying 80.
Part of the reason for this is blur. 24fps of naturally-shot film looks real because each frame is a little blurry wherever there's fast motion so the illusion is complete. 24fps of artificially-generated static images is NOT convincing. (Compare the old Ray Harryhausen-style stop-motion films to modern go-motion work.) So you either need a lot more fps or the game needs to blur the image for you.
So when people started making games, they figured 24/30 fps was enough because that worked for film and video, not realizing there were other differences. Then the numbers started climbing.
STEVE HAS SHOWN US THE WAY.
First of all, no company will last forever. But for quite a while, Apple will be fine, even if Steve Jobs were to disappear tomorrow. EVERY SINGLE EMPLOYEE at Apple has seen what Jobs has done in the last ten years. Apple's success DOES NOT come from chasing the largest market. No more nine-million Performa models being sold at Sears. No more clones. No more trying to dominate the market, Windows-style.** Apple's amazing success in the last decade* has come from making products that start by being pretty easy to use and doing a few things well, then adding features that people actually want down the road. Are they all things for all people? NO. But they're DAMN GOOD for a WHOLE LOT of the market.
And they're not even doing that much innovation (relatively speaking) right now. What are their recent successes? Laptops. A music player. A cell phone. But what they do, and do well, is DESIGN THESE THINGS WELL. Laptops that are thin and smooth without latches to break. A portable music player that's ACTUALLY EASY TO USE. A quasi-smartphone that humans can use. Does a BlackBerry have more features? Maybe. Can the average person on the street use one without a good amount of training? NO. Compared to the iPhone, does the BlackBerry web browser suck out loud? YES. Which would you rather have: a phone with 100 features, all of which require digging through menus and clicking tiny buttons, or a phone with 50 features, but 50 features that are all designed well and you can use every one of them? You can learn 90% of what you need to know about the iPhone just by watching a 5-minute video. THAT'S what Apple does. That's what they've been doing well for the last 10 years. Jony Ive knows it. Phil Schiller knows it. Either one of them could keep Apple afloat simply by following the course that Steve Jobs has charted, for several years at least.
* note: they're not perfect. Look at the G4 Cube, or the puck mouse. But they hit a LOT more than they miss.
** and even the markets that they dominate, they STILL do it well. I went shopping with a friend for a cell phone and I couldn't BELIEVE the bewildering array of crappy phones, each one just slightly different from the next. It reminded me of Dell's and HP's laptop lines. A million different models, each one with pluses and minuses but no real compelling differences. Apple sold over ten million phones in a year and a half and it's basically just ONE MODEL! There was the first gen: 4 GB or 8 GB, done. All were silver. That's it. Then they quit making the 4GB model! Then they dropped that version and introduced a new one, now with GPS, faster networking, and a slightly different body shape. Otherwise identical. ONE model, again available in two sizes. Oh yeah, and it now comes in black or white. THAT'S IT. The iPod line is pretty diverse but once you get past the colors and capacities it really comes down to just a few models: tiny with no screen, small with a screen, medium with a screen and high capacity; and widescreen/touch model, medium capacity. So that's still really just 4 models.
Two generations, actually: those who watch Dora, and those who have kids who watch Dora.
"Sex Offender" != "Child Molester" (!= "Pedophile" for that matter, not that it's relevant)
You can get tagged as the former for getting caught urinating in public in some places.
And even so, SO WHAT it if was a "real" sexual offense? Why are we so hung up on sex offenders in the first place? What about MURDERERS?!? (Or "life offenders" as I call them.) What about violent criminals in general? Plenty of them are walking the streets with NONE of the restrictions that convicted sex offenders face.