Check out Orlando--Disney imagery isn't available in high-quality at all ("we're sorry, but we don't have imagery at this zoom level for this region") but Universal is.
Cryptic product names involving numbers are often explained away as having been inspired by the Nth attempt at formulating a product (or its name). Hence legend has it that the manufacturer of Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda, after the first six tries at selecting a less cumbersome name proved unsatisfactory, finally threw in the towel and opted for the simple choice of "7-Up" instead. And if a cleaner is called "Formula 409," surely that must be because the first 408 formulas didn't work out. [Makes you wonder about the poor people who had to test Preparations A through G.]
WD-40 literally stands for Water Displacement, 40th attempt. That's the name straight out of the lab book used by the chemist who developed WD-40 back in 1953. The chemist, Norm Larsen, was attempting to concoct a formula to prevent corrosion -- a task which is done by displacing water. Norm's persistence paid off when he perfected the formula on his 40th try.
The day of receiving unsolicited coupons for your next latte as you walk by a Starbucks is one step closer.
One of my favorite quotes from joel on software: "It solves the one problem that coffee shops DON'T have, namely, advertising to peoplewho are standing right in front of the store!"
"France also is a huge television and movie producer, germany produces most of its tv content itself, and italy also does, at least France and Italy have very high quality standards, whereals germany has high output (mostly soaps, soap related stuff and sometimes gems and good comedies in between and excellent cartoon movies which are on the rough side of humor)"
I could never stand to play a game where a fundamental force of nature (i.e., gravity) was working against me. And that little rail on the side that whisks the ball safely past your flippers--what the fuck, do they put magnets in there?
...but I wonder if the "Tiny Toys" one is anything like the Stephen King short story Battleground? I always loved that story and thought that it would be a neat movie. I really wanted to see it made as a mix of CGI and live action after I saw the little guys in Toy Story.
I agree--Finder is a disappointment
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Apple has had *so long* to get the finder *perfect* and it's still not nearly as good as it could be.
looks-wise: when going from 9 to X, they threw a lot of babies out with the bathwater. consider active and inactive windows. in OS 9: foreground window had 3d effects all around it. EVERY OTHER WINDOW was solid light grey and a 1-pixel darker grey outline, period. no question about which was which. in OS X, it's waaaay too overly-cutely-designed and too subtle to be useful. OK, so the drop shadow is a bit smaller? great, that'd be tought to see even if my desktop picture *weren't* black. And the stoplight buttons are not there? OK, thanks. and the titlebar text goes from dark grey to medium grey? OK, super. OS 9 made the state of the computer *obvious.* OS X hides it behind pretty-but-subtle cues.
And the performance isn't nearly what it could have been. Every use BeOS? You make a file on the desktop from within an app, boom, it appears in the background instantly. OS X: make a file or folder, click on the desktop to (hopefully) force a redraw, and a moment later (on a dual-G5) it'll show up. Editing a file that you can see in a window in list view? Save it and BeOS updates the 'date modified' column in the background instantly. OS X? Click the file and it'll update. And the Finder is especially lazy about updating disk usage when you have the 'calculate folder sizes' option checked. C'mon, Apple... I had BeOS R3 for Intel and PPC in *1998*! It's 2005 now! Want me to send you my old CDs?
perfect quote: "Finder X is the compromise between the Mac OS folks and the NeXT folks. Neither won, everybody lost."
great quote: "the entire bastardized notion of switching from metal to aqua and hiding the sidebar when clicking on the toolbar chiclet in the upper right-hand corner. Bonus: notice how if you click on the extreme right of the chiclet and try to switch back, you fail -- the window theme switch moved the chiclet slightly to the left and now you've got to follow it. Gag. Folks, this type of stuff makes Gnome look good."
All I remember is when what's-her-name jumped into the pool wearing a white T-shirt and not much else to demonstrate lifesaving techniques. "All right now! Who wants to save me?"
Am I the only one who read that subject as "evince plus poppler minus free divided by usable" before I figured out it wasn't a recipe, like "BSD+Gnome=happiness" or something?
Thanks for the background. When I read the MS version, it had the sound of a backronym, mostly because I can't imagine a lot of gamers saying "We own the other team!" First of all, it's a nice clear sentence. I can more easily imagine them saying "We did well." Secondly, why would you specify "the other team"? If it's just two teams, you use a pronoun--"we own them."
Text will remain king for quite a while (and by that I mean decades.) How do you skim video? How do you search it? Video is linear and runs at about 1x. You get a lot more information by reading the first sentence of each paragraph in an essay than you will from watching the first 5 seconds of each minute of a video. Until computers get a lot smarter ("Computer, jump to the part of the 1998 CES video where Bill Gates' computer blue-screens") text will continue to reign.
My brain has been warped with a few years' exposure to IP ridiculousness. Is it OK for me to take pictures of things like the insides of Disney parks and post them with a CC license? What if the pics include characters or TM'ed items, like the castle they use in their logo? Can I video-record my POV while on a roller coaster and post that? I'll respect the robot voice that tells me still and video photography is not allowed on some of the dark rides, but what about Big Thunder Mountain Railroad?
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Judging by ComHPaq, I think we can look forward to a synergistic merging of all the minuses.
Check out Orlando--Disney imagery isn't available in high-quality at all ("we're sorry, but we don't have imagery at this zoom level for this region") but Universal is.
...I bet it'll make a great iPod killer!
According to Snopes, it was the 40th attempt to make something to Displace Water.
Cryptic product names involving numbers are often explained away as having been inspired by the Nth attempt at formulating a product (or its name). Hence legend has it that the manufacturer of Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda, after the first six tries at selecting a less cumbersome name proved unsatisfactory, finally threw in the towel and opted for the simple choice of "7-Up" instead. And if a cleaner is called "Formula 409," surely that must be because the first 408 formulas didn't work out. [Makes you wonder about the poor people who had to test Preparations A through G.]
WD-40 literally stands for Water Displacement, 40th attempt. That's the name straight out of the lab book used by the chemist who developed WD-40 back in 1953. The chemist, Norm Larsen, was attempting to concoct a formula to prevent corrosion -- a task which is done by displacing water. Norm's persistence paid off when he perfected the formula on his 40th try.
"No traces left behind on the hard drive..."
:-)
The keyboard, however, is another matter entirely.
"All the rest is just FUDD that programmers worry about."
:-)
Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt, and... what... more Doubt?
The day of receiving unsolicited coupons for your next latte as you walk by a Starbucks is one step closer.
One of my favorite quotes from joel on software: "It solves the one problem that coffee shops DON'T have, namely, advertising to peoplewho are standing right in front of the store!"
From TFP: "It seems there has been no activity on the linmodem front for some time."
"France also is a huge television and movie producer, germany produces most of its tv content itself, and italy also does, at least France and Italy have very high quality standards, whereals germany has high output (mostly soaps, soap related stuff and sometimes gems and good comedies in between and excellent cartoon movies which are on the rough side of humor)"
:-)
But it's European! So they're all NAKED!
San Dimas? Excellent! Good thing this tower wasn't up in 1989--the guys would've never gotten their phone booth.
I could never stand to play a game where a fundamental force of nature (i.e., gravity) was working against me. And that little rail on the side that whisks the ball safely past your flippers--what the fuck, do they put magnets in there?
PS: According to him, not many people at all are dressed up in costume. "Theres a time and a place for those kinda things."
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Yeah. The time and place is in front of the right theater.
(Sorry, couldn't resist. Yeah, I read the other comments, I know it's for charity and they might get the movie after all, blah blah blah.)
You spelled "...in Japan" wrong.
It was bad enough to read fanzines and fan stories in the 80's - now we have to endure bad storytelling and childish phantasies onscreen.
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Attention: you don't have to do shit. Don't wanna see'em? Don't wantch'em. Prolem solved, idiot.
A typewriter doesn't make you an author, a videocam not a Steven Spielberg and a piece of CGI software
Um, where the fuck do you think future directors come from? Since you mentioned Steven Spielberg, you might want to know he got his start at 8 years old with his father's 8mm camera and was inspired by the 1955 Disney movie "Davy Crockett."
...but I wonder if the "Tiny Toys" one is anything like the Stephen King short story Battleground? I always loved that story and thought that it would be a neat movie. I really wanted to see it made as a mix of CGI and live action after I saw the little guys in Toy Story.
Apple has had *so long* to get the finder *perfect* and it's still not nearly as good as it could be.
looks-wise: when going from 9 to X, they threw a lot of babies out with the bathwater. consider active and inactive windows. in OS 9: foreground window had 3d effects all around it. EVERY OTHER WINDOW was solid light grey and a 1-pixel darker grey outline, period. no question about which was which. in OS X, it's waaaay too overly-cutely-designed and too subtle to be useful. OK, so the drop shadow is a bit smaller? great, that'd be tought to see even if my desktop picture *weren't* black. And the stoplight buttons are not there? OK, thanks. and the titlebar text goes from dark grey to medium grey? OK, super. OS 9 made the state of the computer *obvious.* OS X hides it behind pretty-but-subtle cues.
And the performance isn't nearly what it could have been. Every use BeOS? You make a file on the desktop from within an app, boom, it appears in the background instantly. OS X: make a file or folder, click on the desktop to (hopefully) force a redraw, and a moment later (on a dual-G5) it'll show up. Editing a file that you can see in a window in list view? Save it and BeOS updates the 'date modified' column in the background instantly. OS X? Click the file and it'll update. And the Finder is especially lazy about updating disk usage when you have the 'calculate folder sizes' option checked. C'mon, Apple... I had BeOS R3 for Intel and PPC in *1998*! It's 2005 now! Want me to send you my old CDs?
perfect quote: "Finder X is the compromise between the Mac OS folks and the NeXT folks. Neither won, everybody lost."
great quote: "the entire bastardized notion of switching from metal to aqua and hiding the sidebar when clicking on the toolbar chiclet in the upper right-hand corner. Bonus: notice how if you click on the extreme right of the chiclet and try to switch back, you fail -- the window theme switch moved the chiclet slightly to the left and now you've got to follow it. Gag. Folks, this type of stuff makes Gnome look good."
All I remember is when what's-her-name jumped into the pool wearing a white T-shirt and not much else to demonstrate lifesaving techniques. "All right now! Who wants to save me?"
Am I the only one who read that subject as "evince plus poppler minus free divided by usable" before I figured out it wasn't a recipe, like "BSD+Gnome=happiness" or something?
I forget where I heard this but it's very cool: As technologies become accepted, they go through three phases: adjective, noun, verb. Such as:
"Send me an email message."
"Send me an email."
"Email me."
See also fax/facsimile, xerox/copy/photocopy, etc.
Thanks for the background. When I read the MS version, it had the sound of a backronym, mostly because I can't imagine a lot of gamers saying "We own the other team!" First of all, it's a nice clear sentence. I can more easily imagine them saying "We did well." Secondly, why would you specify "the other team"? If it's just two teams, you use a pronoun--"we own them."
Text will remain king for quite a while (and by that I mean decades.) How do you skim video? How do you search it? Video is linear and runs at about 1x. You get a lot more information by reading the first sentence of each paragraph in an essay than you will from watching the first 5 seconds of each minute of a video. Until computers get a lot smarter ("Computer, jump to the part of the 1998 CES video where Bill Gates' computer blue-screens") text will continue to reign.
My brain has been warped with a few years' exposure to IP ridiculousness. Is it OK for me to take pictures of things like the insides of Disney parks and post them with a CC license? What if the pics include characters or TM'ed items, like the castle they use in their logo? Can I video-record my POV while on a roller coaster and post that? I'll respect the robot voice that tells me still and video photography is not allowed on some of the dark rides, but what about Big Thunder Mountain Railroad?
Start menu -> run -> \\servername\share
You can also press and hold the windows key (so *that's* what that's for!) and hit R.
Hey, shut up, or else they'll post the next one under that god-awful 'it' theme. :-)
Over 100 comments so far and I, for one, am the first to welcome our new serpentine robot overlords?