...what would all the grumpy, passive-aggressive, junior-college-educated, loudmouth hippies complain about if Paul Allen wasn't manipulating the goddamn sanctity of the local political system. Seattle is truly the least enlightened and most self-congratulatory city in America.
You don't need labels, although I will admit that they are more convenient.
Why don't you just go to iconfactory.com or some other place that makes OS X icons, download a set with multicolored folders, select the folder of the color you want, hit apple-I, click on the icon in the information panel, hit apple-C, then select the folder whose color you want to change, click on its icon in the information panel, hit apple-V.
Even better, make your own icons by creating images in Photoshop. When saved in.psd format, the image document's icon will be the image in the document. Use the same cut and paste routine via the information panel to transfer your new icon from the photoshop file to your target file/directory.
...is BY FAR the most under-appreciated geek movie (or just plain movie) ever. Amazing soundtrack. Great actors. Futuristic technology. Exploding Indian nuclear satellites. Travels from San Francisco to Moscow to Japan to the Australian outback to Lisbon and on and on. Spies and assassins. Addiction to dreams.
There's even a five+ hour version that is supposed to improve on the theater release (which is quite great anyway). Wim Wenders has a website (can't recall his URL) and people are constantly pestering him to get this movie released on DVD there. Not sure if it's out yet, but it sounds like it will be soon.
...obviously if you don't want all those dumb responses, you would configure the Mailer Daemon to be slightly more articulate. Does he actually expect people to parse through the gobblety-gook, and understand what a "non-fatal" error is? What's with sending warning messages anyway?
In my opinion, looking back at previous winners of the Pulitzer for fiction, it's not a very prestigious award. It's more of a driver for the commercial side of publishing (sort of like a grammy is to the music industry). The Nobel prize, on the other hand, is a real mark of distinction.
Just because you tolerate that garbage...
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...doesn't mean it isn't obnoxious to nearly everyone else. I like how you said you have had no such problems, and then went on to describe the hassle of reconfiguring Real's default install. I don't care how patient you are (or how much of an apologist you are), there is NO DOUBT that Real employs tactics that treat their users like idiots. The fact that you are willing (and happy) to be treated in that manner is something you really have to wonder about.
...self-righteous, privileged neo-hippies that make goofy arts and crafts are especially pathetic when portrayed in coffee table books of their own making.
Please stop condescending to me about television. I barely watch mine (I'd guess about two to five hours per week, maximum). If I weren't so busy I might watch more.
Of course, that doesn't mean that I haven't noticed how much TiVo's interface sucks. And by the way, I did plenty of research about TiVo and all I heard were people raving about how revolutionary TiVo is, which indicates to me that most people are so thankful to have TiVo's core functions that they overlook its weaknesses. This has been confirmed to me since, because I have posted complaints to the tivocommunity.com forum about the interface, and all the responses were pure zealotry along the lines of what you've been saying to me.
Now be a good little boy and get away from your computer so you can go out into the real world and play with the other children. You really should lose the whole TV = evil bit -- it comes off as luddite and *very* condescending.
A perfect example of the party line from the 'hardcore' TiVo loyalists:
If you're watching live TV then you just don't understand Tivo. Either that or you have too much time on your hands. Get up and go do something useful.
First of all, if I want to channel surf, I ought to be *able* to do it without fighting through a laggy, crummy interface.
Secondly, some of us that own TiVo like a certain measure of uncertainty in our lives, and are not the sort of pre-programming automatons that you apparently think we *all* are.
If you put TimeWarner's DTV live TV interface next to TiVo, and think TiVo is better, you are hands-down, certifiably insane.
As for TiVo's search functions being sophisticated, I really have to continue to disagree. It's basic, and it works, but it's hardly the full-blown rules-based system that it could be if they put a little bit of thought into it. Plus, it's laggy, and there's no way to quickly scroll through the huge lists of results that it gets, and you can't attach boolean rules to recording instructions (e.g, record auto races with 'formula' in the title, but not 'formula vee'), and it's very difficult to tell what channel multiple instances of the same show is on because it only gives you the wierdo DirecTiVo channel designation (e.g., 'NY4' instead of translating to 'Local ABC', in spite of the fact that DirecTV supplies that information to it). Shall I go on?
Personally, I think TiVo has an amazing interface...
I have DirecTiVo, and it has the *slowest*, *clumsiest* interface that I have ever used on any computer, including everything since the TRS-80 days. The interface hangs constantly for long pauses, refreshes the channel and program list so slowly that you can miss entire pages (!), and the for some stupid reason the program guide is alpha'd over the live signal, rather than scaling the live signal down into a corner box (which would allow me to keep watching it). All of these problems are true for the TiVo-style interface, and are worse for the DirecTV-style interface (you can choose which program guide you want). For chrissakes, TimeWarner's digital cable interface is better! (Do you know how much I hate to say that?)
I suppose you could argue that the pure-TiVo portions of the interface (i.e., other than the live tv parts) are okay, but even those are laggy, with poor layout and poor interaction (e.g., why doesn't hitting down at the bottom of a menu put you back up to the top?!). I find the whole searching mechanism totally unsophisticated, too. I'm generally disappointed with TiVo because it seems like a great idea and a poor implementation. Factor in the choice of USB as the sole digital interface for the next generation, and you can be certain that my next PVR will be the alternative: a PVR that supports wireless LAN (or at least ethernet), and that has a quick interface that supports channel surfing.
"I'm no psychic but I can foresee this: If you make deceptive claims, there is an FTC action in your future," said Howard Beales, director of the FTC's consumer protection bureau.
...you fucking cretin. You can be Bill Wyman all you want, you just can't try to make a career out of it that rides on the bassists coattails. For instance, if your name were Calvin Klein, how fair would it be for you to open a retail clothing store with your name in big letters over the top? Are you starting to get the point, or do I need to explain HOW THINGS ACTUALLY ARE IN THE REAL FUCKING WORLD OUTSIDE YOUR FUCKING PATHETIC FANTASY. Fucking dipshit.
Yes. That is all handled by the notion of misappropriations under intellectual property law. Different regimes have different criteria for the test, but the solution to the general follows (roughly) your outline.
...unlike a patent action, an action relating to misappropriation of goodwill does not depend on the notion of 'prior art'. In this sort of situation, the key question is whether Bill Wyman the author is 'free riding' on Bill Wyman the musician's commercial goodwill in order to further the commercial interests of Bill Wyman the author. It really doesn't matter who had the name first -- All that matters is who made it a commercially valuable name first.
I find it interesting that Shenmue (and Shenmue II), IMO two of the most revolutionary games ever, employ a similar scheme to the timing-based scheme in DL. The Shenmue series is a lot more than just this, but it's actually one of the best parts of the game, again IMO.
It's not as if MS has made it easy to figure out what their goddamn products are named. Actually, their convoluted naming strategies reflect their whole approach. I'm sure if you asked Ballmer to explain it, he'd go on for forty minutes trying to convince you that it made sense.
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...what would all the grumpy, passive-aggressive, junior-college-educated, loudmouth hippies complain about if Paul Allen wasn't manipulating the goddamn sanctity of the local political system. Seattle is truly the least enlightened and most self-congratulatory city in America.
You don't need labels, although I will admit that they are more convenient.
.psd format, the image document's icon will be the image in the document. Use the same cut and paste routine via the information panel to transfer your new icon from the photoshop file to your target file/directory.
Why don't you just go to iconfactory.com or some other place that makes OS X icons, download a set with multicolored folders, select the folder of the color you want, hit apple-I, click on the icon in the information panel, hit apple-C, then select the folder whose color you want to change, click on its icon in the information panel, hit apple-V.
Even better, make your own icons by creating images in Photoshop. When saved in
...is BY FAR the most under-appreciated geek movie (or just plain movie) ever. Amazing soundtrack. Great actors. Futuristic technology. Exploding Indian nuclear satellites. Travels from San Francisco to Moscow to Japan to the Australian outback to Lisbon and on and on. Spies and assassins. Addiction to dreams.
There's even a five+ hour version that is supposed to improve on the theater release (which is quite great anyway). Wim Wenders has a website (can't recall his URL) and people are constantly pestering him to get this movie released on DVD there. Not sure if it's out yet, but it sounds like it will be soon.
...called 'Eurotrash'. To understand this concept, please see 'The Beach'.
...obviously if you don't want all those dumb responses, you would configure the Mailer Daemon to be slightly more articulate. Does he actually expect people to parse through the gobblety-gook, and understand what a "non-fatal" error is? What's with sending warning messages anyway?
Pakistani news and the Asia Times. Wow, you really did your homework, didn't you?
In my opinion, looking back at previous winners of the Pulitzer for fiction, it's not a very prestigious award. It's more of a driver for the commercial side of publishing (sort of like a grammy is to the music industry). The Nobel prize, on the other hand, is a real mark of distinction.
...doesn't mean it isn't obnoxious to nearly everyone else. I like how you said you have had no such problems, and then went on to describe the hassle of reconfiguring Real's default install. I don't care how patient you are (or how much of an apologist you are), there is NO DOUBT that Real employs tactics that treat their users like idiots. The fact that you are willing (and happy) to be treated in that manner is something you really have to wonder about.
...Microsoft has announced:
1) A wristwatch pager that supports 'push' data streams a la Pointcast (c. 1996); and
2) A 'mini-PC' that has the same form factor (and probably fewer features) than Apple's late Newton device (c. 1993).
If releasing ten year old technology isn't innovation, I don't know what is!
...the only people with time to imagine that shit (and to play the tea party version of Utopia) are fucking trust fund hippies.
...self-righteous, privileged neo-hippies that make goofy arts and crafts are especially pathetic when portrayed in coffee table books of their own making.
Please stop condescending to me about television. I barely watch mine (I'd guess about two to five hours per week, maximum). If I weren't so busy I might watch more.
Of course, that doesn't mean that I haven't noticed how much TiVo's interface sucks. And by the way, I did plenty of research about TiVo and all I heard were people raving about how revolutionary TiVo is, which indicates to me that most people are so thankful to have TiVo's core functions that they overlook its weaknesses. This has been confirmed to me since, because I have posted complaints to the tivocommunity.com forum about the interface, and all the responses were pure zealotry along the lines of what you've been saying to me.
Now be a good little boy and get away from your computer so you can go out into the real world and play with the other children. You really should lose the whole TV = evil bit -- it comes off as luddite and *very* condescending.
A perfect example of the party line from the 'hardcore' TiVo loyalists:
If you're watching live TV then you just don't understand Tivo. Either that or you have too much time on your hands. Get up and go do something useful.
First of all, if I want to channel surf, I ought to be *able* to do it without fighting through a laggy, crummy interface.
Secondly, some of us that own TiVo like a certain measure of uncertainty in our lives, and are not the sort of pre-programming automatons that you apparently think we *all* are.
If you put TimeWarner's DTV live TV interface next to TiVo, and think TiVo is better, you are hands-down, certifiably insane.
As for TiVo's search functions being sophisticated, I really have to continue to disagree. It's basic, and it works, but it's hardly the full-blown rules-based system that it could be if they put a little bit of thought into it. Plus, it's laggy, and there's no way to quickly scroll through the huge lists of results that it gets, and you can't attach boolean rules to recording instructions (e.g, record auto races with 'formula' in the title, but not 'formula vee'), and it's very difficult to tell what channel multiple instances of the same show is on because it only gives you the wierdo DirecTiVo channel designation (e.g., 'NY4' instead of translating to 'Local ABC', in spite of the fact that DirecTV supplies that information to it). Shall I go on?
TiVo: -1, Overrated.
Personally, I think TiVo has an amazing interface...
I have DirecTiVo, and it has the *slowest*, *clumsiest* interface that I have ever used on any computer, including everything since the TRS-80 days. The interface hangs constantly for long pauses, refreshes the channel and program list so slowly that you can miss entire pages (!), and the for some stupid reason the program guide is alpha'd over the live signal, rather than scaling the live signal down into a corner box (which would allow me to keep watching it). All of these problems are true for the TiVo-style interface, and are worse for the DirecTV-style interface (you can choose which program guide you want). For chrissakes, TimeWarner's digital cable interface is better! (Do you know how much I hate to say that?)
I suppose you could argue that the pure-TiVo portions of the interface (i.e., other than the live tv parts) are okay, but even those are laggy, with poor layout and poor interaction (e.g., why doesn't hitting down at the bottom of a menu put you back up to the top?!). I find the whole searching mechanism totally unsophisticated, too. I'm generally disappointed with TiVo because it seems like a great idea and a poor implementation. Factor in the choice of USB as the sole digital interface for the next generation, and you can be certain that my next PVR will be the alternative: a PVR that supports wireless LAN (or at least ethernet), and that has a quick interface that supports channel surfing.
"I'm no psychic but I can foresee this: If you make deceptive claims, there is an FTC action in your future," said Howard Beales, director of the FTC's consumer protection bureau.
Priceless.
Ha ha, you smarmy ass-sniffing twat-licker. Everything you have just said is not only dumb, but also wrong.
...you fucking cretin. You can be Bill Wyman all you want, you just can't try to make a career out of it that rides on the bassists coattails. For instance, if your name were Calvin Klein, how fair would it be for you to open a retail clothing store with your name in big letters over the top? Are you starting to get the point, or do I need to explain HOW THINGS ACTUALLY ARE IN THE REAL FUCKING WORLD OUTSIDE YOUR FUCKING PATHETIC FANTASY. Fucking dipshit.
THANK YOU! Cliff Hanger was it. And I played Star Rider, too, and it was my favorite game for a while there.
Yes. That is all handled by the notion of misappropriations under intellectual property law. Different regimes have different criteria for the test, but the solution to the general follows (roughly) your outline.
...unlike a patent action, an action relating to misappropriation of goodwill does not depend on the notion of 'prior art'. In this sort of situation, the key question is whether Bill Wyman the author is 'free riding' on Bill Wyman the musician's commercial goodwill in order to further the commercial interests of Bill Wyman the author. It really doesn't matter who had the name first -- All that matters is who made it a commercially valuable name first.
Right. That's what I meant. What was that game called?
I find it interesting that Shenmue (and Shenmue II), IMO two of the most revolutionary games ever, employ a similar scheme to the timing-based scheme in DL. The Shenmue series is a lot more than just this, but it's actually one of the best parts of the game, again IMO.
I think that just means you sucked at playing it.
The game that I was referring to was actual anime. It was made out of Dr. Caligari.
It's not as if MS has made it easy to figure out what their goddamn products are named. Actually, their convoluted naming strategies reflect their whole approach. I'm sure if you asked Ballmer to explain it, he'd go on for forty minutes trying to convince you that it made sense.