since there wasn't any mention of it here or any of the live coverage sites that i watched, and none on the apple site, does anyone have any ideas what the USB port on the appleTV would support? syncing with itunes, i would presume - like a big ipod, or as an external hard drive. on a related note, on the apple store and main site, they have the appletv grouped in with the ipod and itunes, which makes sense to me, though only after some thought.
anyhoo, it also wouldn't be a bad idea to be able to hook the appleTV to the new airport extreme (802.11n) base station as a shared drive.
or, for that matter, be able to extend the appleTV's storage with one of the myriad mac-mini-form-factor hard drives out in the world. i don't know about most folks, but between movies, tv, and music, i've got about half of my home server's 500gig RAID full. i suppose i could stream all that, but having some serious storage in the living room would be nice with the flaky wireless reception in my house.
maybe sync ipod appleTV?
i'm getting married soon. i wonder if i can register at the apple store?
really. how do you tell your PHB "we need to use this thing you've never heard of and will probably never know how to pronounce when you tell our prospects that we're using it"
instead, you shrug and say "tell them we're using 'MY ESS QUE ELL' not 'my sequel'."
"Word's first general release was for MS-DOS computers on May 2, 1983. It was not well received, and sales lagged behind those of rival products such as WordPerfect."
"Word for Macintosh [1985] was written to match the Mac's user interface, and as such it had little in common with Word for DOS; it eventually became the source for Word for Windows 1.0."
"The first version of Word for Windows was released in 1989"
it was then, only after wordperfect lagged in releasing a windows version, that word for windows became the standard, and sales took off. before that point, it was mainly a mac application.
really? something coming from microsoft is going to supplant a product that's been so embedded in designers' and developers' minds for years that it's the defacto standard for interactive content? really?
that's like saying some kludged together microsoft web browser that they give away for free will kill off netscape.
SCI FI Channel announced Jan. 12 that it will air the first season of the BBC's hit SF series Doctor Who, starting in March. The 13 episodes, starring Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor...
my coworkers can already tell, from across the cube wall, when i'm getting frustrated, just by the increased volume of my typing. i also type faster and make more mistakes. not that it changes their behavior at all. they still bug the shit out of me.
i think all you'd need to put in place for my computer to tell my emotional state is a pressure sensor in the keyboard, and probably a keystroke recorder to see how frequently i hit the backspace key. at a certain pressure/mistake threshold, it would be great if it could quietly ignore incoming email and IM requests, as well as muting my phone. and while we're at it, the phones and speakers of every cube in a 30' radius. that would be especially helpful. that would cover both the angry "why the hell doesn't this work!?" times, as well as the excited "i have to get this input before i forget it!" times.
oh, and if it could send high voltage electric shocks to anyone who pokes their head over my cube wall to ask me why i'm not responding to their email, i would pay a lot more for it.
actually, that's kinda the answer i was looking for. thanks.
i figured the heliopause would be the defined edge, but wasn't sure if there were the possibility of objects outside it that were also still in the influence of the sun. sounds like not.
i have in my hand a device with a large, bright color screen, usb, a QWERTY keyboard and a processor fast enough to run all kinds of java apps. why is there no linux or bsd for this device?
seriously, where is the *nix for blackberry devices? they've been out in various incarnations for a long time, and there's plenty of old ones lying around, just waiting for an open source OS to make them useful again.
... or that i knew about fifty gazillion people would post something silly like "golly. it's lucille ball's nephew's dog's birthday, too. conspiracy!?"
and yes. i'm a karma whore. all the better to be a frequent moderator.
1463 - Poet François Villon is banned from Paris. 1477 - Battle of Nancy, Charles the Bold killed, Burgundy becomes part of France. 1500 - Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan. 1527 - Martyrdom of Felix Manz, a Swiss Anabaptist. 1554 - Great fire in Eindhoven, Netherlands. 1675 - Battle of Colmar, French army beats Brandenburg. 1757 - Louis XV of France survives the assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France with the traditional and gruesome form of death penalty used for regicides. 1759 - George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis. 1781 - American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold. 1846 - The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom. 1854 - The San Francisco steamer sinks, 300 dead. 1895 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. 1896 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays. 1900 - Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule. 1909 - Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama. 1912 - Prague Party Conference 1914 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor. 1918 - Free Committee for a German Workers' Peace founded, which would become the Nazi party. 1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States. 1933 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay. 1940 - FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time. 1944 - The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper. 1945 - The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland. 1948 - Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl). 1956 - Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel." 1957 - Major league baseballer Jackie Robinson retires. 1961 - Television: Mr. Ed debuts. 1964 - Pope Paul VI meets the Greek patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem, the first meeting of Catholic and Orthodox Christianity leaders since 1439. 1968 - Alexander Dub?ek comes to power, "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia. 1970 - Soap opera: All My Children premieres. 1972 - President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program. 1973 - Netherlands recognizes East Germany. 1974 - An earthquake in Lima, Peru kills six, and damages 100s of houses. 1975 - The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people. 1976 - Cambodia is renamed Democratic Campuchea. 1980 - Hewlett-Packard announces release of its first personal computer. 1984 - Richard Stallman starts developing GNU. 1987 - President of the United States Ronald Reagan undergoes prostate surgery causing worries about his health. 1993 - The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands spilling 84,700 tonnes of oil. 1993 - Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965). 1996 - Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone. 1997 - Withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya. 2000 - The 1st day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit. 2002 - Charles Bishop, a 15-year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack. 2006 - Expected activation of Sober worm
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I wonder, sometimes, how often the nitty gritty science content - things like control groups, double-blind setups, etc - gets cut in favor of the "Adam blowing stuff up" segments in order to make the show come in on time.
For instance, the recent episodes about seasickness cures and alternate uses for vodka. The seasickness placebo pill seemed like an afterthought, but should have been part of the process from the beginning. Also, it wasn't an inert sugar pill, but a vitamin, which could potentially throw the results into question (I know that the vitamins I take often make me feel nausea if I take them on an empty stomach). And what about the meals the subjects had eaten beforehand? In the end, each of the "cures" could have been subject to placebo/nocebo effect, since the subjects all knew what they taking, and what the "cures" supposed to do.
As for the vodka tests, a good many of those trials could have been performed with water as a "control." To determine if the effectiveness of vodka as mouthwash, for instance. Was it due to its alcholic content, its lack of noticeable flavor or aroma?
I imagine there's a lot we don't see, based on the time constraints and the pressure to put a lot of "Adam blowing stuff up" content on-screen to bring up the numbers. My question is this: how much of it gets tossed? How much real scientific method actually happens to begin with, and who is responsible for designing it into the experiments? And is there any way (on the show's website, for instance) to share the complete data, experimental setups and whatnot, that don't get shown on TV?
P.S. Thanks for a very entertaining and enlightening show. Can you let Adam blow stuff up more often?
The only omissions from the set are the animated series (1973-75), which as of 2005 was not available on DVD, and the two officially sanctioned fan-focused documentaries, Trekkies and Trekkies 2. So perhaps The Ultimate Star Trek Collection isn't quite as ultimate as it could be...
um. wasn't it less than ten years ago that the media were biased pretty drastically *against* Apple? every day saw stories of its impending buyout by (insert one of the following: disney, microsoft, sun, hp, sony, rupert murdoch), making the phrase "beleagured computer company" a cliche when describing them.
how much has really changed in the media since then? or to put it differently, how many of the people have changed?
i imagine there are oldsters still fighting technology, trying to sumbit their work in manuscript or manual typewritten form. so are the fogies that are running and editing things - they can hardly have an opinion based on their platform of choice, unless it's ballpoint versus fountain pen. it's the younger guys that are all writing for the internet and so comfortable with technology that they submit stories from their sidekicks and crackberries, that are so attached to their ultra-slim laptops that losing it is like losing a limb. and how many of them were still in J School when Apple was beleagured? so they were working on PCs in their formative years, and remember using windows to write and work on. whether they use macs now or not, they know *all about* windows and microsoft.
do you think maybe *that's* why some reporters are biased towards Apple?
hell, this is like dvorak saying that newspaper reporters are biased toward the literate.
Re:how did we miss that before?
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yeah. that's what i'm saying.
hell, with a few decades worth of time - when did we send out the mariner and viking missions? - i would expect even unskilled human labor to be able to find this.
"red. red. red and bumpy. dark red. red. red. blue. red. red. red."
"go back a sec..."
how did we miss that before?
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really. IANARS*, but how did previous missions miss that? haven't we already imaged most or all of the martian surface from orbit at a resolution high enough to see this glaringly obvious bullseye?
and if it wasn't there a few years ago, where did it come from?
my pet finder bug, which has existed since 10.0 and has been reported with each major release to bugreport.apple.com is as follows. it has been marked as "duplicate" and thus closed, so i know it's been seen and i'm not the only one who's complained. but, as yet, it has not been resolved.
this is a long-standing "os X finder doesn't work like classic finder" issue, and while it's not a great hardship, it would be nice to see it fixed.
Summary: files dragged from the finder into another application, or copied from place to place, or even file listings copied and pasted from the finder never retain the order in which they were diplayed in the finder.
Steps to Reproduce: 1 - select several files or folders in a finder window, in list mode, ordered by name. select edit->copy to copy the filenames to the clipboard.
2 - open a textedit document. paste the filenames into the document. the names will be in a different order from their positions in the finder, in a seemingly random new order.
Expected Results: one would expect that the listing in the clipboard, and thus in the document, would reflect either a: the order in which they were selected (not the case) or b: the order in which they appear in the finder (also, not the case)
Actual Results: for example, i've created several folders via duplication in the finder, named "copy 1"... "copy 9"
in the finder, they appear in alphabetical order, 1-9. selecting these and copy/pasting the listing into an empty textedit document, results as such:
Regression: none that i know of. selecting multiple files and opening them in their associated application opens them out of order. dragging multiple files from the finder into applications that accept dragged items imports/places them out of order, etc.
in other news: quark is still around and in business.
who knew?
of course, people said the same thing of apple not too long back: several years of floundering, nosediving market share, awful products, and a byzantine attitude towards customers, support and pricing. oh, and a revolving door on the CxO suite.
maybe steve jobs is looking for another challenge?
it has a standard PCMCIA slot which will accept an ethernet or wireless card - drivers available online, but you'll likely still need a machine that can connect over serial to do the initial install. there's a number of shareware and open source apps for pc, mac and linux that you can use to sync data, contacts, etc. links below
i have a 2100 that i sync up over my 802.11 network at home.
for that matter, you may be able to save your documents on the a pc flash card, and pop that into your laptop or other device that accepts such cards. i'm doubtful of this, tho, since the newton os stores everything in "soups" instead of a traditional filesystem - built from the ground up to use flash memory instead of spinning media.
microsoft is trying to cash in on some of that sweet, sweet "apple is suing the rumor sites" PR action.
longhorn betas and delays are such a non-story right now that the only way people will pay attention to MS is if they start acting all nutty and alienating their enthusiast core. kinda like apple does every six months just before or after a big product announcement. they get a story about the rumors. then a story about the lawsuit, which reinforces the rumors as true. then a story about the product itself, and another about how close the rumors really were. then another after the lawsuit is settled or dropped.
it's worked for jobs for years, and kept apple in the news even when there haven't been anything really to write about, and finally MS is catching on.
i feel your pain. i hate the moviegoing experience enough to have found the best time to go to a movie is just before it gets pulled from the theaters. on a weekday. in the afternoon.
i'm often the only one in the audience. good thing my office has a "flex time" policy.
all that aside, i think a lot of people missed what made the series an original - characters.
look at most any sci fi show on tv, and you'll see the same cardboard cutouts propped up by inane reliance on technology and the same four plots to push the season forward. the exception is clearly Battlestar Galactica, which is so vastly superior to the last gasps of Enterprise (oo! a plot arc that involves time travel *and* an alternate universe! is it blowing your mind yet!?) that it's no surprise which one will be on again in the fall.
where was i? oh yeah. whedon's characters. they surprise you. i've recently started DVRing Angel (need to find a better verb, since i have a replayTV, and saying i Tivo a show doesn't feel right) and i'm realizing what i really liked about the writing and composition of firefly was the depth they put into each character. the reason angel (which i never watched when it was first run) and buffy were such big "cult" hits wasn't the subject matter, but the stories behind the characters, and their dynamism. they're not as forgiving and understanding as their counterparts on your run of the mill show. things aren't always hunkey dorey, cue the laugh track and the closing themesong when the end credits roll. there's real tension, and i'm often surprised by what the characters do - like real people. they have motivations and emotions and aren't always perfectly rational.
so, yeah. i want the show back, but i'll settle for a movie franchise. i'll own them all on dvd before i own all the star wars discs.
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since there wasn't any mention of it here or any of the live coverage sites that i watched, and none on the apple site, does anyone have any ideas what the USB port on the appleTV would support? syncing with itunes, i would presume - like a big ipod, or as an external hard drive. on a related note, on the apple store and main site, they have the appletv grouped in with the ipod and itunes, which makes sense to me, though only after some thought.
anyhoo, it also wouldn't be a bad idea to be able to hook the appleTV to the new airport extreme (802.11n) base station as a shared drive.
or, for that matter, be able to extend the appleTV's storage with one of the myriad mac-mini-form-factor hard drives out in the world. i don't know about most folks, but between movies, tv, and music, i've got about half of my home server's 500gig RAID full. i suppose i could stream all that, but having some serious storage in the living room would be nice with the flaky wireless reception in my house.
maybe sync ipod appleTV?
i'm getting married soon. i wonder if i can register at the apple store?
hm. i thought it was
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Backup
Everything
Then
Apply.
that's always worked for me
really. how do you tell your PHB "we need to use this thing you've never heard of and will probably never know how to pronounce when you tell our prospects that we're using it"
instead, you shrug and say "tell them we're using 'MY ESS QUE ELL' not 'my sequel'."
about damn time. my newton is starting to show its age. now the industry can move on to something *new* and finally come up with a replacement for it.
something like that...
from wikipedia:
"Word's first general release was for MS-DOS computers on May 2, 1983. It was not well received, and sales lagged behind those of rival products such as WordPerfect."
"Word for Macintosh [1985] was written to match the Mac's user interface, and as such it had little in common with Word for DOS; it eventually became the source for Word for Windows 1.0."
"The first version of Word for Windows was released in 1989"
it was then, only after wordperfect lagged in releasing a windows version, that word for windows became the standard, and sales took off. before that point, it was mainly a mac application.
fine. how about you admit that MS software for the mac played an important role in the success of microsoft as a viable software business.
really? something coming from microsoft is going to supplant a product that's been so embedded in designers' and developers' minds for years that it's the defacto standard for interactive content? really?
that's like saying some kludged together microsoft web browser that they give away for free will kill off netscape.
er...
SCI FI Channel announced Jan. 12 that it will air the first season of the BBC's hit SF series Doctor Who, starting in March. The 13 episodes, starring Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor...
er... wasn't the *first* season aired sometime in 1963, and had William Hartnell as the Doctor?
history, schmistory...
my coworkers can already tell, from across the cube wall, when i'm getting frustrated, just by the increased volume of my typing. i also type faster and make more mistakes. not that it changes their behavior at all. they still bug the shit out of me.
i think all you'd need to put in place for my computer to tell my emotional state is a pressure sensor in the keyboard, and probably a keystroke recorder to see how frequently i hit the backspace key. at a certain pressure/mistake threshold, it would be great if it could quietly ignore incoming email and IM requests, as well as muting my phone. and while we're at it, the phones and speakers of every cube in a 30' radius. that would be especially helpful. that would cover both the angry "why the hell doesn't this work!?" times, as well as the excited "i have to get this input before i forget it!" times.
oh, and if it could send high voltage electric shocks to anyone who pokes their head over my cube wall to ask me why i'm not responding to their email, i would pay a lot more for it.
"The offering will include exclusive material from MTV"
huh. since when does MTV offer music?
actually, that's kinda the answer i was looking for. thanks.
i figured the heliopause would be the defined edge, but wasn't sure if there were the possibility of objects outside it that were also still in the influence of the sun. sounds like not.
how long until we redefine what the "edge" of the solar system is? since we keep finding new things further and further out.
are there objects outside the heliopause? would they be considered outside the solar system, or would that push the "edge" further still?
i have in my hand a device with a large, bright color screen, usb, a QWERTY keyboard and a processor fast enough to run all kinds of java apps. why is there no linux or bsd for this device?
seriously, where is the *nix for blackberry devices? they've been out in various incarnations for a long time, and there's plenty of old ones lying around, just waiting for an open source OS to make them useful again.
... or that i knew about fifty gazillion people would post something silly like "golly. it's lucille ball's nephew's dog's birthday, too. conspiracy!?"
and yes. i'm a karma whore. all the better to be a frequent moderator.
...and can't check wikipedia themselves:
1463 - Poet François Villon is banned from Paris.
1477 - Battle of Nancy, Charles the Bold killed, Burgundy becomes part of France.
1500 - Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan.
1527 - Martyrdom of Felix Manz, a Swiss Anabaptist.
1554 - Great fire in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
1675 - Battle of Colmar, French army beats Brandenburg.
1757 - Louis XV of France survives the assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France with the traditional and gruesome form of death penalty used for regicides.
1759 - George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
1781 - American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
1846 - The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
1854 - The San Francisco steamer sinks, 300 dead.
1895 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
1896 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
1900 - Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
1909 - Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
1912 - Prague Party Conference
1914 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
1918 - Free Committee for a German Workers' Peace founded, which would become the Nazi party.
1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States.
1933 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
1940 - FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time.
1944 - The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
1945 - The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
1948 - Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).
1956 - Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel."
1957 - Major league baseballer Jackie Robinson retires.
1961 - Television: Mr. Ed debuts.
1964 - Pope Paul VI meets the Greek patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem, the first meeting of Catholic and Orthodox Christianity leaders since 1439.
1968 - Alexander Dub?ek comes to power, "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia.
1970 - Soap opera: All My Children premieres.
1972 - President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.
1973 - Netherlands recognizes East Germany.
1974 - An earthquake in Lima, Peru kills six, and damages 100s of houses.
1975 - The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
1976 - Cambodia is renamed Democratic Campuchea.
1980 - Hewlett-Packard announces release of its first personal computer.
1984 - Richard Stallman starts developing GNU.
1987 - President of the United States Ronald Reagan undergoes prostate surgery causing worries about his health.
1993 - The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands spilling 84,700 tonnes of oil.
1993 - Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
1996 - Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
1997 - Withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya.
2000 - The 1st day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit.
2002 - Charles Bishop, a 15-year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack.
2006 - Expected activation of Sober worm
I wonder, sometimes, how often the nitty gritty science content - things like control groups, double-blind setups, etc - gets cut in favor of the "Adam blowing stuff up" segments in order to make the show come in on time.
For instance, the recent episodes about seasickness cures and alternate uses for vodka. The seasickness placebo pill seemed like an afterthought, but should have been part of the process from the beginning. Also, it wasn't an inert sugar pill, but a vitamin, which could potentially throw the results into question (I know that the vitamins I take often make me feel nausea if I take them on an empty stomach). And what about the meals the subjects had eaten beforehand? In the end, each of the "cures" could have been subject to placebo/nocebo effect, since the subjects all knew what they taking, and what the "cures" supposed to do.
As for the vodka tests, a good many of those trials could have been performed with water as a "control." To determine if the effectiveness of vodka as mouthwash, for instance. Was it due to its alcholic content, its lack of noticeable flavor or aroma?
I imagine there's a lot we don't see, based on the time constraints and the pressure to put a lot of "Adam blowing stuff up" content on-screen to bring up the numbers. My question is this: how much of it gets tossed? How much real scientific method actually happens to begin with, and who is responsible for designing it into the experiments? And is there any way (on the show's website, for instance) to share the complete data, experimental setups and whatnot, that don't get shown on TV?
P.S. Thanks for a very entertaining and enlightening show. Can you let Adam blow stuff up more often?
from the editorial review:
The only omissions from the set are the animated series (1973-75), which as of 2005 was not available on DVD, and the two officially sanctioned fan-focused documentaries, Trekkies and Trekkies 2. So perhaps The Ultimate Star Trek Collection isn't quite as ultimate as it could be...
'nuff said.
um. wasn't it less than ten years ago that the media were biased pretty drastically *against* Apple? every day saw stories of its impending buyout by (insert one of the following: disney, microsoft, sun, hp, sony, rupert murdoch), making the phrase "beleagured computer company" a cliche when describing them.
how much has really changed in the media since then? or to put it differently, how many of the people have changed?
i imagine there are oldsters still fighting technology, trying to sumbit their work in manuscript or manual typewritten form. so are the fogies that are running and editing things - they can hardly have an opinion based on their platform of choice, unless it's ballpoint versus fountain pen. it's the younger guys that are all writing for the internet and so comfortable with technology that they submit stories from their sidekicks and crackberries, that are so attached to their ultra-slim laptops that losing it is like losing a limb. and how many of them were still in J School when Apple was beleagured? so they were working on PCs in their formative years, and remember using windows to write and work on. whether they use macs now or not, they know *all about* windows and microsoft.
do you think maybe *that's* why some reporters are biased towards Apple?
hell, this is like dvorak saying that newspaper reporters are biased toward the literate.
yeah. that's what i'm saying.
hell, with a few decades worth of time - when did we send out the mariner and viking missions? - i would expect even unskilled human labor to be able to find this.
"red. red. red and bumpy. dark red. red. red. blue. red. red. red."
"go back a sec..."
really. IANARS*, but how did previous missions miss that? haven't we already imaged most or all of the martian surface from orbit at a resolution high enough to see this glaringly obvious bullseye?
and if it wasn't there a few years ago, where did it come from?
* not a rocket scientist
my pet finder bug, which has existed since 10.0 and has been reported with each major release to bugreport.apple.com is as follows. it has been marked as "duplicate" and thus closed, so i know it's been seen and i'm not the only one who's complained. but, as yet, it has not been resolved.
... "copy 9"
this is a long-standing "os X finder doesn't work like classic finder" issue, and while it's not a great hardship, it would be nice to see it fixed.
Summary:
files dragged from the finder into another application, or copied from place to place, or even file listings copied and pasted from the finder never retain the order in which they were diplayed in the finder.
Steps to Reproduce:
1 - select several files or folders in a finder window, in list mode, ordered by name. select edit->copy to copy the filenames to the clipboard.
2 - open a textedit document. paste the filenames into the document. the names will be in a different order from their positions in the finder, in a seemingly random new order.
Expected Results:
one would expect that the listing in the clipboard, and thus in the document, would reflect either a: the order in which they were selected (not the case) or b: the order in which they appear in the finder (also, not the case)
Actual Results:
for example, i've created several folders via duplication in the finder, named "copy 1"
in the finder, they appear in alphabetical order, 1-9. selecting these and copy/pasting the listing into an empty textedit document, results as such:
"copy 7
copy 4
copy 3
copy 8
copy 6
copy 5
copy 1
copy 2
copy 9"
clearly not alphabetical.
Regression:
none that i know of. selecting multiple files and opening them in their associated application opens them out of order. dragging multiple files from the finder into applications that accept dragged items imports/places them out of order, etc.
in other news: quark is still around and in business.
who knew?
of course, people said the same thing of apple not too long back: several years of floundering, nosediving market share, awful products, and a byzantine attitude towards customers, support and pricing. oh, and a revolving door on the CxO suite.
maybe steve jobs is looking for another challenge?
it has a standard PCMCIA slot which will accept an ethernet or wireless card - drivers available online, but you'll likely still need a machine that can connect over serial to do the initial install. there's a number of shareware and open source apps for pc, mac and linux that you can use to sync data, contacts, etc. links below
s tats/emate_300.html
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i have a 2100 that i sync up over my 802.11 network at home.
for that matter, you may be able to save your documents on the a pc flash card, and pop that into your laptop or other device that accepts such cards. i'm doubtful of this, tho, since the newton os stores everything in "soups" instead of a traditional filesystem - built from the ground up to use flash memory instead of spinning media.
anyhoo, specs for the emate are here:
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/messagepad/
emates for $50 here:
http://macsruscomputers.com/apple-newton.html
nsync software here:
http://homepage.mac.com/nowhereman77/hacks/newton
another similar package here (tho it may be defunct now)
http://www.everchanging.com/newton/
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microsoft is trying to cash in on some of that sweet, sweet "apple is suing the rumor sites" PR action.
longhorn betas and delays are such a non-story right now that the only way people will pay attention to MS is if they start acting all nutty and alienating their enthusiast core. kinda like apple does every six months just before or after a big product announcement. they get a story about the rumors. then a story about the lawsuit, which reinforces the rumors as true. then a story about the product itself, and another about how close the rumors really were. then another after the lawsuit is settled or dropped.
it's worked for jobs for years, and kept apple in the news even when there haven't been anything really to write about, and finally MS is catching on.
i feel your pain. i hate the moviegoing experience enough to have found the best time to go to a movie is just before it gets pulled from the theaters. on a weekday. in the afternoon.
i'm often the only one in the audience. good thing my office has a "flex time" policy.
all that aside, i think a lot of people missed what made the series an original - characters.
look at most any sci fi show on tv, and you'll see the same cardboard cutouts propped up by inane reliance on technology and the same four plots to push the season forward. the exception is clearly Battlestar Galactica, which is so vastly superior to the last gasps of Enterprise (oo! a plot arc that involves time travel *and* an alternate universe! is it blowing your mind yet!?) that it's no surprise which one will be on again in the fall.
where was i? oh yeah. whedon's characters. they surprise you. i've recently started DVRing Angel (need to find a better verb, since i have a replayTV, and saying i Tivo a show doesn't feel right) and i'm realizing what i really liked about the writing and composition of firefly was the depth they put into each character. the reason angel (which i never watched when it was first run) and buffy were such big "cult" hits wasn't the subject matter, but the stories behind the characters, and their dynamism. they're not as forgiving and understanding as their counterparts on your run of the mill show. things aren't always hunkey dorey, cue the laugh track and the closing themesong when the end credits roll. there's real tension, and i'm often surprised by what the characters do - like real people. they have motivations and emotions and aren't always perfectly rational.
so, yeah. i want the show back, but i'll settle for a movie franchise. i'll own them all on dvd before i own all the star wars discs.