iTunes has always been Apple's playground for trying out new UI, if they want to see how the public react to something new that doesn't relate specifically to another product, iTunes is generally where they'll try it. It got the blue monochrome sidebar before Lion, it got Cover Flow first, and it's had it's UI played with more than the rest of the system. They seem to figure that if it works in iTunes, it'll work in the rest of the system, but at the same time, people who use iTunes know it well enough that if they change stuff people will still be able to make it work.
They've been working on a new slider, for example, (see the volume slider) and I wouldn't be surprised that after a iteration or two we start seeing it crop up elsewhere.
man apple-get:
* --your-wallet -y : Transfer the entire contents of your bank account to Apple, if you do not have sufficient funds please use -s
* --soul-transfer -s : In cases where you do not have sufficient funds, use this option to transfer your soul to Apple; you may only do this once. Note: This option contributes to Steve Job's REALITY DISTORTION FIELD and no refund can be given once your soul has been transferred.
Couldn't we just implement a cross-platform ratings system along with a 'discontinue' option? There are some bits of DLC I would really like to actually get, say, half my money back on and not have access to it anymore as it's just that crap and I never use it.
How about two sets of keyrings? One in each pocket? Better weight distribution and less bulk. Phone left hand pocket, wallet right, your overall distribution would be more balanced as a result. Your 3 keys on one, girlfriends three keys on another, motorbike key, bike key and roof key on your girlfriend's, post box key and car key on yours - this gives you somewhere to stay if you lose one of the sets AND a form of transportation either way.
I had a similar routine, which basically meant that my classmates and I were up 6:30-7:00, in for 8:15, classes until 4:00pm (plus a short lunch break and early morning break), 2 subjects set homework p/d and each subjects homework was meant to take 1.5 hours, so I'd arrive home by about 5:00pm, then do about 3 hours of homework, and eat, which would leave me at about 9:00pm looking at about an hours free time at home - which given the tiredness I was left in by the schedule, was mostly spent... seated.
Best thing about it? I gave up gymnastics (which I did 3 hours a day, for four days a week and then 5 hours a day each day of the weekend) in order to attend that school in order to simply get "good grades" (which, admittedly, I did) and I was bullied for a good 6 years. This is what the education system is doing to children.
However what you fail to take into account is that the more you try to contain people, often the harder they will rebel. My university (which didn't have a poor attendance record at all - in fact it was very good for a long time) started sending out emails to students who missed a class, and immediately (and palpably) attendance dropped.
Then they started to send letters because the attendance dropped. And instead of reversing the flow, it got worse. In fact, we had more people doing retakes this past year than ever before in the university's history.
It seems silly, but the truth is it felt like they were taking away our freedom, our ability to manage ourselves as adults and people - they were trying to control us for their own sakes and we simply detested that they were trying to do something like that.
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iTunes has always been Apple's playground for trying out new UI, if they want to see how the public react to something new that doesn't relate specifically to another product, iTunes is generally where they'll try it. It got the blue monochrome sidebar before Lion, it got Cover Flow first, and it's had it's UI played with more than the rest of the system. They seem to figure that if it works in iTunes, it'll work in the rest of the system, but at the same time, people who use iTunes know it well enough that if they change stuff people will still be able to make it work. They've been working on a new slider, for example, (see the volume slider) and I wouldn't be surprised that after a iteration or two we start seeing it crop up elsewhere.
In OS X it's:
sudo apple-get --your-wallet install os-x-10.7-lion
man apple-get:
* --your-wallet -y : Transfer the entire contents of your bank account to Apple, if you do not have sufficient funds please use -s
* --soul-transfer -s : In cases where you do not have sufficient funds, use this option to transfer your soul to Apple; you may only do this once. Note: This option contributes to Steve Job's REALITY DISTORTION FIELD and no refund can be given once your soul has been transferred.
Couldn't we just implement a cross-platform ratings system along with a 'discontinue' option? There are some bits of DLC I would really like to actually get, say, half my money back on and not have access to it anymore as it's just that crap and I never use it.
It's like a falcon punch to Android and Blackberry, saying "Looks like iOS is the future".
How about two sets of keyrings? One in each pocket? Better weight distribution and less bulk. Phone left hand pocket, wallet right, your overall distribution would be more balanced as a result. Your 3 keys on one, girlfriends three keys on another, motorbike key, bike key and roof key on your girlfriend's, post box key and car key on yours - this gives you somewhere to stay if you lose one of the sets AND a form of transportation either way.
I had a similar routine, which basically meant that my classmates and I were up 6:30-7:00, in for 8:15, classes until 4:00pm (plus a short lunch break and early morning break), 2 subjects set homework p/d and each subjects homework was meant to take 1.5 hours, so I'd arrive home by about 5:00pm, then do about 3 hours of homework, and eat, which would leave me at about 9:00pm looking at about an hours free time at home - which given the tiredness I was left in by the schedule, was mostly spent... seated. Best thing about it? I gave up gymnastics (which I did 3 hours a day, for four days a week and then 5 hours a day each day of the weekend) in order to attend that school in order to simply get "good grades" (which, admittedly, I did) and I was bullied for a good 6 years. This is what the education system is doing to children.
However what you fail to take into account is that the more you try to contain people, often the harder they will rebel. My university (which didn't have a poor attendance record at all - in fact it was very good for a long time) started sending out emails to students who missed a class, and immediately (and palpably) attendance dropped. Then they started to send letters because the attendance dropped. And instead of reversing the flow, it got worse. In fact, we had more people doing retakes this past year than ever before in the university's history. It seems silly, but the truth is it felt like they were taking away our freedom, our ability to manage ourselves as adults and people - they were trying to control us for their own sakes and we simply detested that they were trying to do something like that.