What did it actually bring? For me, too much. There is no single perfect way to handle everything. The idea of "keep all the info forever so anyone who joins can look it over and see how it evolved" is great, unless you've been in the project all along--then you've got to wade through all the same crap over and over looking for the 2 bits of new stuff on a page with dozens of entries. When I tried it, there was no way to say "I've looked at this, addressed it, it's done, now I don't ever want to see it again."
Rather than one tool that does everything, for me it was a great example of when you really *do* want to have separate places for separate things. If me and 10 other people all have 50 emails, maybe five emails are important to each of us, but it'll be a different 5 for each person. Using Wave is like having one inbox shared with the whole team.
> I've seen a few 3d movies now, and in my experience, you > notice it for a few minutes and think "that's interesting", but > if you are absorbed in the story you quickly forget that you > are watching it in 3d.
I don't. You know why? The. Fucking. Glasses. I hate them. I don't get headaches, they're just uncomfortable. Cheap, ill-fitting, scratchy, plastic pieces of shit. They just feel weird on my face. I hate, hate, hate them. Unfortunately, my wife thinks 3D movies are cool so I'm stuck watching them for as long as they keep getting made.
Toy Story 3 was a great movie. I can't imagine I would have liked it any less in 2D. There wasn't one second of that movie where I thought "wow, I'm glad I'm watching this in 3D." In fact, I had to take the glasses off to wipe tears away, thus ruining the effect for a few moments. Out-fucking-standing.
> Nearly every Apple *fan* that I've met > has been a pretentious prick.
Congratulations, you've derived the definition of the word "fan", short for "fanatic." Owner != fan. Most sports fans are pricks, too, at least when it comes to "their" team.* Same with Ford/Chevy fans and all the rest. At least Apple fans have some class--I've yet to see an iPad with a decal of Calvin peeing on a tablet PC.
Back on topic, this article is absolute trollish bullshit--nothing more than a generalization. I can guarantee you that my 62 year old mom, 54 year old aunt, and 76 year old neighbor (all Apple users, one iPad (so far) among those three) are neither selfish nor elitist. What's next, a front-page Slashdot story proclaiming that Windows users are all mouth-breathing lusers and Linux users are either arrogant greybeards or basement-dwelling loners?
* hey, at least Apple fans do something with what they're fanatical about. Ooh, you paid money to go sit in a stadium and yell at a bunch of millionaires who wouldn't give a shit if you died in the stands? Good for you.
Yay, maybe in three years they'll decide that ripping for my own use is legal--so I can protect discs from my kids, select movies from a list on my media server instead of swapping physical media like our caveman ancestors did, and not be subjected to bullshit unskippable ads for all fucking eternity.
... that Apple's products are totally bullshit and that it's just their marketing that makes people willing to pay their insane prices, I say... BEHOLD THE POWER (and value!) OF GOOD DESIGN!
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/09/05iphone.html Apple sold nearly a million iPhones at the original price ($499-$599) in the first two months. (And the 8GB, $599 units outsold the 4B, $499 ones by a pretty wide margin--so much so that when the price drop happened, they also discontinued the 4GB model.) Then they lowered the price to $399 and it still sold very well--a total of six million in the first year, according to this. It wasn't $199 until mid-2008.
Unfortunately, Adobe has so totally borked the PDF spec and PDF creation tools that I still come across PDFs that Preview can't render. A couple years ago (right after 10.5 came out) I had a strange PDF--just a basic one page, 12-month calendar, but somehow all I got were the outlines of the months. There was no text anywhere except for the year at the top and the company name at the bottom. I don't know who made it or how but I had to be able to see it which is why I've always got Acrobat around. (Thought PDFs are set to open with Preview by default.) There have been plenty of others that Preview couldn't show to some extent but that one really sticks out because the document was so simple. It's ironic (yes, really) that the 'P' in 'PDF' means 'portable'--as in, 'viewable on any platform.'
The file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system.
Matte finishes are slightly diffuse and that makes the colors a little less intense and reduces sharpness a bit. I love the clarity and color of glossy displays but I generally work away from windows, or when I'm near them, I'm facing them so glare isn't a problem. There has only been a handful of times in the 4 years I've owned my shiny-screen MacBook that I've thought "man, this glare is a pain"--usually it's not a problem at all or a small adjustment in position makes it go away. I'd imagine most people agree, or else they just say "ooh, shiny!" and that's what sells, which is of course all that matters. Sorry to hear about your situation but it looks like you'll be stuck dealing with what the rest of the market wants.
The plural of anecdote is not data. I know two people who went from a 3G or 3GS to a 4 and BOTH of them are in the camp of "wow, I didn't used to be able to make calls at home, now I can." And I've seen quite a few stories online with the same theme. As far as I can tell, Apple took 10 steps forward (reception is usually better) and one step back (it's occasionally worse.) But the squeaky wheels get the grease.
There are two ways to steal credit card numbers: getting them from a computer system of some kind (up to an including things like putting a stripe reader on the front of an ATM) and the old-fashioned way of a clerk or waiter or whoever just looking at a card and copying the numbers. Does anyone know of any data showing which is more common?
Lots of the core stuff about RDBMSs goes back decades and even old stuff like this is still very relevant. Try reading this page (just a dozen printed pages) and see what you think. He covers a lot of the fundamentals well and his style of writing is pretty entertaining.
He said only one percent of Web comments have any value and called the rest 'garbage.'
But remember, those other 99% provide a lot of "value" in page views and revenue, both from posters and from readers. So the truth of that statement depends on exactly which value you're measuring.
> The fact you have never heard of it probably means > the targeted marketing was done competently.
The fact that it was killed just WEEKS after introduction probably means the "targeting" was done more competently than the "marketing" was.
Remember in science when you learned about the difference between accuracy and precision and how it was possible to have one, the other, neither, or both? I think it's something like that.
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What did it actually bring? For me, too much. There is no single perfect way to handle everything. The idea of "keep all the info forever so anyone who joins can look it over and see how it evolved" is great, unless you've been in the project all along--then you've got to wade through all the same crap over and over looking for the 2 bits of new stuff on a page with dozens of entries. When I tried it, there was no way to say "I've looked at this, addressed it, it's done, now I don't ever want to see it again."
Rather than one tool that does everything, for me it was a great example of when you really *do* want to have separate places for separate things. If me and 10 other people all have 50 emails, maybe five emails are important to each of us, but it'll be a different 5 for each person. Using Wave is like having one inbox shared with the whole team.
> I've seen a few 3d movies now, and in my experience, you
> notice it for a few minutes and think "that's interesting", but
> if you are absorbed in the story you quickly forget that you
> are watching it in 3d.
I don't. You know why? The. Fucking. Glasses. I hate them. I don't get headaches, they're just uncomfortable. Cheap, ill-fitting, scratchy, plastic pieces of shit. They just feel weird on my face. I hate, hate, hate them. Unfortunately, my wife thinks 3D movies are cool so I'm stuck watching them for as long as they keep getting made.
Toy Story 3 was a great movie. I can't imagine I would have liked it any less in 2D. There wasn't one second of that movie where I thought "wow, I'm glad I'm watching this in 3D." In fact, I had to take the glasses off to wipe tears away, thus ruining the effect for a few moments. Out-fucking-standing.
I read all the way to the end of one of TFAs before realizing it's "torch", not "touch."
... it's, um, light red!
> Nearly every Apple *fan* that I've met
> has been a pretentious prick.
Congratulations, you've derived the definition of the word "fan", short for "fanatic." Owner != fan. Most sports fans are pricks, too, at least when it comes to "their" team.* Same with Ford/Chevy fans and all the rest. At least Apple fans have some class--I've yet to see an iPad with a decal of Calvin peeing on a tablet PC.
Back on topic, this article is absolute trollish bullshit--nothing more than a generalization. I can guarantee you that my 62 year old mom, 54 year old aunt, and 76 year old neighbor (all Apple users, one iPad (so far) among those three) are neither selfish nor elitist. What's next, a front-page Slashdot story proclaiming that Windows users are all mouth-breathing lusers and Linux users are either arrogant greybeards or basement-dwelling loners?
* hey, at least Apple fans do something with what they're fanatical about. Ooh, you paid money to go sit in a stadium and yell at a bunch of millionaires who wouldn't give a shit if you died in the stands? Good for you.
Yay, maybe in three years they'll decide that ripping for my own use is legal--so I can protect discs from my kids, select movies from a list on my media server instead of swapping physical media like our caveman ancestors did, and not be subjected to bullshit unskippable ads for all fucking eternity.
An equally-large problem will be finding "50 high-quality movies" from the current crop.
... that Apple's products are totally bullshit and that it's just their marketing that makes people willing to pay their insane prices, I say... BEHOLD THE POWER (and value!) OF GOOD DESIGN!
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/09/05iphone.html
Apple sold nearly a million iPhones at the original price ($499-$599) in the first two months. (And the 8GB, $599 units outsold the 4B, $499 ones by a pretty wide margin--so much so that when the price drop happened, they also discontinued the 4GB model.) Then they lowered the price to $399 and it still sold very well--a total of six million in the first year, according to this. It wasn't $199 until mid-2008.
Unfortunately, Adobe has so totally borked the PDF spec and PDF creation tools that I still come across PDFs that Preview can't render. A couple years ago (right after 10.5 came out) I had a strange PDF--just a basic one page, 12-month calendar, but somehow all I got were the outlines of the months. There was no text anywhere except for the year at the top and the company name at the bottom. I don't know who made it or how but I had to be able to see it which is why I've always got Acrobat around. (Thought PDFs are set to open with Preview by default.) There have been plenty of others that Preview couldn't show to some extent but that one really sticks out because the document was so simple. It's ironic (yes, really) that the 'P' in 'PDF' means 'portable'--as in, 'viewable on any platform.'
The file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system.
Matte finishes are slightly diffuse and that makes the colors a little less intense and reduces sharpness a bit. I love the clarity and color of glossy displays but I generally work away from windows, or when I'm near them, I'm facing them so glare isn't a problem. There has only been a handful of times in the 4 years I've owned my shiny-screen MacBook that I've thought "man, this glare is a pain"--usually it's not a problem at all or a small adjustment in position makes it go away. I'd imagine most people agree, or else they just say "ooh, shiny!" and that's what sells, which is of course all that matters. Sorry to hear about your situation but it looks like you'll be stuck dealing with what the rest of the market wants.
The plural of anecdote is not data. I know two people who went from a 3G or 3GS to a 4 and BOTH of them are in the camp of "wow, I didn't used to be able to make calls at home, now I can." And I've seen quite a few stories online with the same theme. As far as I can tell, Apple took 10 steps forward (reception is usually better) and one step back (it's occasionally worse.) But the squeaky wheels get the grease.
You're modding it wrong!
> If the eFuse failes to verify this information then the eFuse
> receives a command to "blow the fuse" or "trip the fuse".
Well, which is it, tripping or blowing? Those are two totally different things. One is a lot more fun than the other.
> Rap stars are groomed and trained to pay attention only
> to the lambos, the parties, and the mansions.
Really? It's pracically a cliché that every rapper starts their own label and it's been that way for over 20 years.
http://www.rapartists.com/labels/
Just two examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthless_Records - Eazy-E, 1987; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Row_Records - Dr. Dre, 1991
From http://www.tuaw.com/2010/07/12/apple-drops-consumer-reports-discussion-threads-down-memory-hole/
If you were looking for a message thread on Apple's support forums pointing to Consumer Reports' article 'not recommending' the iPhone 4, it's not there any more. Apple's support forum moderators deleted the thread. Bing cached it.
If it happened once, maybe you'd say it was a glitch. But what if it happened twice? Three times? Four times, five, six?
There are two ways to steal credit card numbers: getting them from a computer system of some kind (up to an including things like putting a stripe reader on the front of an ATM) and the old-fashioned way of a clerk or waiter or whoever just looking at a card and copying the numbers. Does anyone know of any data showing which is more common?
Database fundamentals haven't changed much. I don't know how much you know so far but this guy is pretty smart:
http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/
http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/
http://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/
Lots of the core stuff about RDBMSs goes back decades and even old stuff like this is still very relevant. Try reading this page (just a dozen printed pages) and see what you think. He covers a lot of the fundamentals well and his style of writing is pretty entertaining.
> Laptops are only an "indoorey" thing because their screens are pretty crap in the sunlight.
Also: heat, humidity, dust, and bugs.
Sorry, I couldn't get past the Napoleon Dynamite-esque homepage.
Sweet! Now I just need a USB cable long enough to reach Canada.
... if this plan involved any of the same people who wanted to set off a nuclear bomb on the moon.
He said only one percent of Web comments have any value and called the rest 'garbage.'
But remember, those other 99% provide a lot of "value" in page views and revenue, both from posters and from readers. So the truth of that statement depends on exactly which value you're measuring.
> The fact you have never heard of it probably means
> the targeted marketing was done competently.
The fact that it was killed just WEEKS after introduction probably means the "targeting" was done more competently than the "marketing" was.
Remember in science when you learned about the difference between accuracy and precision and how it was possible to have one, the other, neither, or both? I think it's something like that.
> The US guys couldn't figure it out, so they consulted British scientists!
Truly dumb. I wouldn't have even needed scientists--I would have started with the question "So, have you gotten any gifts from any Russians recently?"